So glad you are coming to the US. My advice, from living in TX for the past 32 years, is to look outside of Houston to live. There are many very nice, small communities, that are great to live in.
I grew up in Texas...near in Cypress, near where you will be moving. My parents moved to NE Oklahoma when they retired... 30 years ago. When i turned 40, an unforseeable life event also brought me to NE Oklahoma. I have lived here For the past 20 years. I'd Love to move back to Texas, some day, but its now so expensive to live there compared to where I live in Oklahoma. Housing prices and rents have so greatly increased ill probability never be able to move back. My siblings both still live in Texas. Housing costs have also doubled here, but i bought my house 18 years ago when it was still affordable. I own my house and ½ acre property, but i miss my siblings.
"Yes but Macedonia was Greece" ? Technically Greece was /became Macedonia. As I understand they were ethnically, linguistically closer to Greeks, compare to Thracian, Illyrian...but they were not just another Greek city state -proper. They basically conquered Greece and you don't conquer yourself. But even before the conquest they adopted everything Greek since the Greeks were better bigger, cultural, civilizational super power of the time. So then Alexander of Macedon was spreading Hellenic empire. I think it's not wrong to say that Alexander the Great was not really Greek. Certainly not on his mothers side. What I find fascinating is things like: Hitler was Austrian, Napoleon was Corsican, Stalin was Georgian...Alexander was Macedonian...what's up with that? Coincidence?