And, Conroe isn't really "Nowheresville," making it sound rural. The city has expanded so much, Conroe is essentially a northern bedroom community of Greater Houston. If you drove north from downtown, you wouldn't hit undeveloped rural space until north of Conroe.
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But where I grew up, that was the actual city nearest to our burbs, with 30 miles of burbs & swamps between there and the nearest big city.