Marge Henson's three bedroom ranch-style house in Southwest Houston is for sale. She doesn't know where she's moving; her husband's employer won't agree to transfer him and he doesn't have any offers. But she doesn't care. All she wants right now is to get out of Houstonfast.
This summer was the worst time of Marge Henson's life. All the basics of city life that one takes for granted everywhere but Houstonwater in the pipes, garbage pickup twice a week, buses and police if you need themcould no longer be relied upon. No amount of puffery about the city's booming economy and phenomenal growth could compensate for the paralysis of Houston city government that was becoming the dominant factor in her life.