Why you'd want to live in Pasadena

Pasadena is a Texas city located about 14 miles southeast of Houston in Harris County. The city is serviced by several thoroughfares, including Texas State Highway 225 (known as the Pasadena Freeway), Interstate I-45, and the Sam Houston Tollway. Pasadena is bordered by Deer Park (to the east) and Jacinto City (to the north). The city is home to San Jacinto College, the University of Houston at Clear Lake and the Texas Chiropractic College. Founded in 1893, Pasadena was named for Pasadena, California, due to its lush vegetation and the similarities in natural beauty between the two cities. The advent of the La Porte, Houston and Northern Railroad in 1894 opened the area for development as a farming community. After the devastating Galveston hurricane of 1900, Clara Barton of the American Red Cross purchased over a million strawberry plants for Gulf Coast farmers, quickly establishing Pasadena as the strawberry capital of the region. Incorporated in 1928, Pasadena slowly transitioned from a farming economy to an industrial one. By the time of World War II, a major increase in the ship-channel industries solidified the transition in the city's economy. Employment in Pasadena today is still closely linked to the ship-channel industries as well as the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in adjacent Clear Lake. via citytowninfo.com