Back when I was growing up, Sugar Land, Texas, was a little town known only for state prison farms and the Imperial Sugar mill. Just about every bread-winner in town worked for one or the other.
I can’t quote actual figures, but I’d bet today’s median income in Sugar Land – even accounting for inflation - is about ten times what it was back then.
You wouldn’t recognize the town today, in fact it’s hard to find remnants of that little town from the 1950s. What used to be farm land is now sprawling subdivisions of high-end homes populated by business executives, doctors and sports figures.
The town boasts its own professional baseball team with one of the finest ball fields outside of the major leagues, a major satellite of the Houston Museum of Natural Science, and starts construction this year on a new, state of the art, performing arts center.
As if all that wasn’t enough, it was reported yesterday that Ashley Madison.com, a website dedicated to promoting affairs among married people, says almost 9% of its 160,000 Houston area members come from Sugar Land, making Sugar Land home to the most promiscuous folks in the area.
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