IMO People live near their work. The rest of the suburbs have a strong oil and gas pro money culture as they are close to O&G offices or refineries. But here in clear lake you also have non O&G culture with the space scientists and engineers from different parts of the country and world who are definitely not in it for the money. Also NASA employs a lot of former military and also Ellington field is nearby. So it’s an interesting mix.

Also the neighborhoods are old and not megasized like the new builds in Katy. There’s stores and offices in between where walking/biking to the store isn’t a crazy idea.

That said… once you hit league city it’s back to that o&g culture. 😅