Relocating to Houston

Greetings r/Houston – hope you’re all holding up well during the pandemic.

New Yorker here who has been thinking of relocating to Houston for a while (visited 5 years ago and loved it) – and just got blessing from my employer to work 100% remote when my lease is up in September (we don’t anticipate opening our office again this year).

Would really appreciate some guidance from locals on pros and cons on some neighborhoods that have popped up in my research.

I’m a single dude in my 30s and looking for a neighborhood with some chill bars / restaurants – perhaps In walking distance and decent shopping.

Montrose seems to check all these boxes – but finding it difficult to browse effectively not having visited with the sole purpose of feeling out neighborhoods. There seems to be a bunch of newish construction buildings with very nice 1 bedrooms for 1,500 or less (which is awesome)

Midtown / downtown also seem interesting.

I’ve primarily been searching on Trulia / Zillow – not sure if there’s a better resource to do so.

Also: by far my favorite type of housing are commercial loft conversions : any former industrial neighborhoods with these types of buildings ?

Searched the sub before posting (on mobile) and most threads like this were quite old so apologies if you get several of these posts a day and I missed it

Cheers and thank you 🙏