Over the years, Meyerland has prospered as a community, and its residents have tended to be upwardly mobile. Because of the community's location and other factors, that trend doesn't seem likely to change anytime in the near future. While Meyerland Plaza saw some dark days in the early '80s, Meyerland itself has never really experienced the decades of decline that many other, previously prosperous Houston neighborhoods experienced before re-gentrification made them desirable areas again.
I expect that Meyerland will continue to be a major area of importance to Houston residents, and particularly to the city's Jewish population, because of the neighborhood's many ties to their community. And it's difficult to foresee any force at play that could adversely affect Meyerland in any really major way. Houston survived the worst national economic crash in memory without suffering the way most of the country did, and if neighborhoods like Meyerland weren't devastated by that financial calamity, then I can't see anything else that could make a relatively wealthy community just outside the 610 Loop less desirable.
And driving through Meyerland, it's easy to envy those who are able to live in the neighborhood. It's very pretty, and like all of Houston's great neighborhoods, is possessed of a character that feels unique to it.
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