This idea that Texas is the great hope is a bit over blown I belive. They’ve got some serious problems too.
Oh really?
For the ninth consecutive election, every single elected state office holder from US Senator and Governor down to Agriculture and Railroad Commissioner has been a Republican. We've gone Republican every Presidential election since 1980, and we can't keep the Californians and the Yankees out as they are fleeing here like geese. Even those libertarian venture capitalists who are starting their own colony down in Belize are copying Texas business law as their model.
I challenge anyone else to name some place better.
You'r right, in fact, Texas is awful. Too hot in the summer, day after day of 100+ and you will freeze during the winter cold fronts. It is so cold it knocks out the power plants that provide the heating.
In the early part of dang near ever summer we get these huge thunderstorms that have so much lightening it is like artillery barrages and dump hailstone the size of tennis balls. My truck just got busted up by the latest one here in Dallas back in June. The damage was so widespread it took two and a half weeks just to get to an estimator. I didn't get into a body shop till October. They were all full.
We got killer bees, anthrax in everything from the vegetable gardens to the deer, tornadoes, floods and gigantic wildfires that burn down entire counties.
There are so many rattlesnakes that Texas doesn't require a hunting license to just kill`em and I think it is only ten bucks for the massive rattlesnake hunts they have every year. It is still ok to stomp them to death when they come up in your front yard.
The ones going to those snake hunts are something else. Here in Texas it is classified as "recreation." No joke. No traps allowed, gotta use your hands and a stick.
Also there are coral snakes and 10 kinds of pit vipers, including the copperhead, cottonmouth plus eight rattlesnake species. Piranha in some lakes too. There are World record alligators in the rivers as well. It makes for some interesting fishing trips.
Then there are the feral hogs all over the place. No season. No limit. Standard hunting license and you are good to go after the 300 pounders. Just watch out for the packs of coyotes that run wild day and night.
Mountain lions are pretty much everywhere, including the suburbs here in Dallas. They had to shoot one in downtown El Paso last year. About five years ago one was spotted in a downtown Dallas parking garage! Damn things will hop your backyard fence and chow down on your dogs in a blink of an eye.
Then there are the Texans themselves. Wow! The only folks I know that call their AR-15's "pellet guns." Dallas county has so many people doing concealed carry I don't even have to anymore. Darned if they are not just everywhere. And some are toting iron that makes a .45 look like a 22.
Everywhere you go the people are almost all Republicans or conservatives OR TEA Party! They actually believe that smaller and smaller government is a good thing. It is difficult to find any correctly CSCOPE educated and enlightened people to talk about global warming, renewable green energy or diversity/inclusiveness!
Any if you want to relax for a year or two and write a book or whatever, forget it! You can’t stay on unemployment for as long as you like because jobs are everywhere. Those drilling and pipeline companies working the shale (dirty) oil boom going on in central Texas are hiring everybody in sight.
Not only all that, they actually allow the operation of huge refineries all over the State and offshore drilling and oil production too! Because the refineries are right there you can't find gasoline properly priced above $3.20 a gallon ANYWHERE.
They are SO BACKWARDS they have not even passed a State income tax and do not require union labor!
Yea, CSCOPE educated and enlightened people would not like it here. They should not even think about showing up in Texas, it's just awful.
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Yeah, it is way over rated. I suggest it is not place for carpet baggers and yankees to settle. They need to find another state to go to.
This idea that Texas is the great hope is a bit over blown I belive. They’ve got some serious problems too.
I sadly might have to agree. As a 7th generation Texas who loves the state dearly, I know that there are absolute Floods of immigrants from Mexico, South America, Asia, Arab, India and also as mentioned in a post above, many, many transplants from NE and California. While small towns and some suburbs might still have their heads on straight, the bigger cities and many suburbs are being inundated (most people I know who live in my suburb, if they grew up in Texas are pretty conservative still, but when half your suburb is either foreign or from liberal states, the flavor of things changes. Where I live has changed drastically in just the past 10 -15 years. I don’t mind some immigration but SLOWLY with specific plans that immigrants will take on the values and culture of our country, rather than coming in with the purpose of changing our country to the place they came from. It is really, really sad.
I think the only way to stop the flood is to of course crack down on illegal immigration, but also STOP the massive flood tide of legal immigration and send many of them back home. Also, cut off the welfare and medicaid candy fountain that attracts so many.
The chances of that happening? None