Get to Know Richmond

Richmond distinguishes itself from other Houston suburbs by having a bit of a Wild West twang. In the historic downtown, you’ll find two businesses owned by the Joseph family, who have had stores in the same location since the early 1900s, selling coffee, cigars, and guns as part of a general store. Today, Joseph’s Vintage Guns are known for their selection of antique firearms, and next door, Joseph’s Premium Cigars sells hard-to-find, boutique, and imported cigars. There are also still a few horse ranches dotted around the edges of Richmond, and if you follow the Brazos River out to the Brazos Bend State Park in Needville, you’ll see plenty of alligators roaming along the trails. There’s lots of open acreage available to build out your own estate, but master-planned neighborhoods have become popular as well, most of which are located in the unincorporated parts of Fort Bend County.

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Living in Greater Houston

Like all of Texas, Greater Houston’s history is the story of oil, with suburban towns developed by and for gas and oil executives, with Houston’s Energy Corridor remaining a major employer today. The suburbs of Houston stretch in all directions, from Kingwood, technically inside the city limits, all the way up to and beyond The Woodlands, whose growth and prominence has earned it its own identity, separate from H-Town. These suburbs are young metropolises — towns that grew out of farmland and forest in the past 50 years, with houses, office parks, newly created lakes, and golf courses emerging from rural lands where only cows and feral pigs once roamed. As Houston’s economy has diversified and as the region has created more new jobs, Houston residents have looked farther and farther out for more space to settle. Greater Houston is booming and there’s no better place to call home.