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In reply to the discussion: 10 reasons why so many people are moving to Texas [View all]MrScorpio
(73,630 posts)1. After living there for two horrid years, I swore on my Mother's grave that I would never set foot in that state again. After 28 years, that pledge is still holding strong.
2. Texans.
3. The God awful heat, the insects and the drought.
4. Texans.
5. I have no family members there. Everyone I know is up here in my home state of Michigan.
6. Texans.
7. Saw a few bumpers stickers down there that read, "Welcome to Texas, now leave." So, left and never went back.
8. More Texans.
9. I didn't feel comfortable there at all. The only place that I've ever felt that way about. Perhaps it was because practically every stranger that I came across in that state would look at me like I was crazy after I greeted them. I asked my boss at the time, a dyed in the wool Texan and overall good guy, why was everyone so unfriendly (Rude, actually)? What happened to that "Southern hospitality" that I had always heard about? Well, he corrected my mistake right there... Turns out that I wasn't "Down South", I was in Texas. Which, of course, was a handy-dandy explanation for any weird incident that I ever came across during my time there, from the asshole yuppie wannabes, to the doped up hippie wannabes. No one bothered to explain to me why The Klan had its own TV show on public access at the time or why it seemed to be SOP to treat anyone who wasn't a Texan like human garbage. But that's neither here nor there.
I will say, on the other hand, that I did enjoy the food, the music scene in Austin and the wide open Texas highway system.
My biggest dislike came from in spite of all that great stuff. Instead, my biggest problem with the place, which even concerns me to this day... Well, I can't see any reason why the situation is better now than it was back then. And that reason, above all others, why I don't think that I'd ever go back is of course...
10. Still Texans.
So be it.