Why Texas is Right...
 

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/07/business/big-hot-cheap-and-right-a-new-look-at-texas-review.html?partner=yahoofinance&_r=0

“The Texas model isn’t an accident, in other words, even if the state Constitution does call for a very stark version of it,”

“Texas has a long tradition of looking outside the government for support — and often finding it. That predates the Texas revolution and was reinforced by the rise of the cattle kingdom and the oil booms.”

Texas is on my short list of places to flee to.

Yup. I love Texas.

Just moved here. Should have come a long time ago.

I'll never leave.

Just moved to Texas myself

If I could pry my wife away from my damn in-laws I'd be in the DFW area tomorrow. I love Texas, and hope to move there before they secede.:)

I travel quite a bit for business across the US. I was in DFW a few months ago on business. With all the construction, operational business (instead of shuttered doors), and general energy it felt like being in a foreign country. Like "Recession? What recession?"...

Really like the area east of DFW - out toward Nacadoches, etc. Quite lovely. Put us down as 'would flee to Texas.'

angela

Texas has a lot of good things going for it. But some bad things too. A vast majority of the jobs created in the past 5 years were low wage with no benefits. And you pay for what you get - since taxes are low our education and healthcare coverage are poorly ranked.

We're not perfect - calling it a miracle is really if you only care about business and screw everything else. But we got a lot of good going for us. Except for the summers - it's damn hot.

It is not so much Texas as it is Texans, good people. It can be hard country, what with the various deadly snakes, spiders that can bite you and make your foot rot off, drought, hundred year floods every ten years, hurricanes, tornadoes, hail that could kill you if it hit you in the head. There are several colors worse than red on those doppler weather maps it turns out. Ice storms in the winter, implausible heat in the summer. I had always thought of 100% as the upper end of the scale. It is possible, through some combination of humidity, temperature amd Bermuda Triangle effect to have both the percent humidity and the degrees to be greater than 100. Fortunately, the high humidity keeps you from bursting into flames when the wind blows. Something about it keeps your head from going soft, unless of course you are on the meth, in which case you won't be around long anyway.

California is totally different. Mild weather, most of the bears and other dangerous bigger animals have been chased from the state, soft, easy country, except for the Mojave, which counts as Arizona, and the Mountains on the wrong weekend for weather.

Nice recitation of the left talking points. I think we have all heard these many times, even more as the West and the NE slide into a ruinous fiscal state.

If God were to give the earth an enema, he'd stick the tube in Texas.

Texas is a great place to own a business, but not a very good place to be someone else's employee.

He already did that, its called Mississippi. Hook'em Horns!

What cracks me up is that there are (at least) two different kinds of Texans. When I meet them, they either tell me that,

A) It's a great place, except for Austin. Or,

B) That it's a destination to skip, except for Austin. :D

Austin is unique. They have a tax me into oblivion philosophy that will one day ruin the city. They didn't build the F1 race track outside of the city for no good reason. Unfortunately, I think the city did annex the territory because it was not incorporated.

What is great, is that the nut jobs tend to centralize to the inner city and there is a vast area in out lying regions where normalcy exists.

We have room for expansion, and people tend to disperse from the city. No one really wants to live in Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, or Austin. They want to live just beyond the political reach of the city.

Urban sprawl.

I'm so happy for reinforcing your faux political paradigms. I didn't realize being pro-healthcare and pro-education is a "left talking point". But if it is, I guess that means you're anti-education and anti-healthcare. Congrats.

My work here is done...:cool:

both my parents were born in Texas -- but they were smart enuff to leave

Time to PARF this beyatch.

So, did you report the thread or are you just complaining out loud? One goes with the other.

The epic drought of 2011 did a lot of damage. Millions of dead trees, lost crops, dead cattle, etc. etc. Parts of East TX got some reprieve in 2012 but most of the state, if not still in extreme drought conditions is heading that way and the long range forecast is more drought. One of the main drivers of the current economic boom is the Eagle Ford, Barnett and soon to be Cline Shale plays for oil/gas. Unfortunately all these areas are drought prone, currently in extreme drought and as fracking takes massive amounts of water which will come from where ??

The worst drought was the near 7 year drought in the 1950s when the population was probably 20% of what it is now. If this drought even approaches that one?

As the article says, the weather here can be brutal. I've lived here 67 years and seen tornadoes, dust storms that turned the sky red, hail the size of softballs, hurricane force winds, severe droughts, and huge flash floods.

The state passed a 50 year water plan I believe it was back the the 1990s which was designed to assure TX water supplies. Unfortunately, the legislature didn't seem to realize you actually have to fund these things (not to mention being bogged down with such emergency legislation over the years as voter ID, stopping planned parenthood funding, being sure only abstinence is taught in sex ed classes and all those other social problems we have. But fear not, they just passed to bill to start some funding of water projects, of course they will take years to implement. Hell, they may even do something about highway funding one of these days instead of just defaulting to toll roads.

This could turn into a real rant so stop I will....

yes, this is said to be the worst drought in state history

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This thread is a load of azz. I was raised there only to see Dallas vote blue in the last election.

Here is a dose of reality: Texas will move left because the people moving there will bring their own failed policies from other states. The honest working people will fail to join in politically and will be ruled by their inferiors. You heard it here first.

Yes, my life in Texas sucks. The housing is horrible.

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I live in the desert.

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And it's flat, arid, and boring.

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Please don't come here.

My wife's sister and her husband just bought a house in DFW, I was amazed how much you can get for your money there.

I went to Texas once. They called me a "Yankee" That was odd.

Democrats

Lie of the day. Maybe the year.

It's the dismal tide, Brother. The worst of humanity is being nurtured...and it's happening all over.
Hug your kids & pets.

I love your place mreid...gorgeous! Must be great to come home every evening and relax on the weekends.

Anyone considering moving to Texas, please leave your Liberal crap at the border. We do not want to turn into another Colorado. There is a reason for the success in Texas. It is up to YOU to get by.

Some complain about lower wages, but the cost of living is also very low. Between Houston and Katy, in good areas with good school districts, you can find 2000+ sq. foot houses for just over $100K. While we do not get the year round fresh veggies at the quality level of California, we do have very low food prices.

And if you want to live still cheaper? You can move out to the country and buy a few acres for under $10K/acre. Put up a doublewide until you can afford to build a house and you're in for $50K, including well and septic tank.

This is what happens when you are not taxed and regulated to death. Let's keep it that way.

I got here as soon as I could...makes me a Damn Yankee!

I have slept in 49 states (never been to Alaska and IMO it isn't a state!) and if I had a choice of any of them to live in - and I pretty much do - I still would choose Tejas hands down.

Those that live in Cali do so for the weather and ...hmmm...can't see any other reason really...nice place to visit for a few days but pretty much every one I talk to there is always telling me their amazing life or their great plans and ideas and how awesome they are and how they are on to something big and that what they are doing now is a stepping stone. Amazing.

Don't they know I'm the one they are supposed to think is awesome and don't they know I'm the one they should be focused on! Geeezzzz ;-)

Texas is right not because of politics, we have not always been a red state, the state has prospered with democrats in the office as well as republicans.

When I lived in Dallas as a kid, there was a popular bumper sticker than read, "Love NY? Take I-30 East."

Texas will be all Democratice pretty soon - enjoy it, beard!

Sí. Esa es la verdad.

With all it's oil and cattle money, I always wondered why Texas wasn't a better state. When I lived there the education system was terrible and I think it still ranks pretty low. I won the Bee County hIstory award (multi-school competition) not by getting the most answers correct but by finding two mistakes on the test. We moved to MA soon after.