It is flat, the coastal plain is, well, a plain.
Posted on 12/28/2015 6:53:17 AM PST by thackney
And yet the Obama BLS and ADP says everything is hunky dory. Every week! Things are getting better!
That’s it? Alberta has lost about 100k. I’m glad to hear it’s going better there than we’ve been faring.
The biggest thing I tell folks is to make sure you have a real trade or something else marketable. Too many people make the big bucks with no skills. Their jobs are one trick ponies, then things tighten a bit and they’re the first to go.
I read that as only direct oil gas workers.
A support industry like mine would not be counted. I work in engineering/construction and oil/gas/petrochem hire us.
Hard to imagine any major capex projects are on the books in this planning horizon
But on the bright side, we added a couple hundred thousand to the Welfare and Food Stamp rolls.
Ya, I am the same way, I just sometimes lump them all together heh.
Depending on how this year goes, if US starts to right the ship, I may move to AZ or some other tax friendlier area that doesn’t restrict carry and ownership of boomsticks.
We got better in Texas this year. Open Carry begins in days.
The oil industry is about the worse for job stability. Has always been.
Of course, the loss of all those high-wage oil industry jobs are more than being offset by the creation of low-paying, part-time hospitality and service positions, thus allowing the Obama regime and his willing accomplices in the state-controlled media to tout the phony “economic recovery” mantra along with those B.S. BLS unemployment rate numbers each month.
AZ already has open carry.
The aside, aren’t property taxes in TX far higher than AZ?
Property taxes are higher, but no income tax like Arizona.
Ag exempts if you have some acreage make a huge difference.
I’d only be interested in acreages anyway, I like elbow space and being able to target shoot off the back deck heh.
As far as fields go, I don’t know what they’re like in relation to decent places to live.
I’m also leary of the immigration issue so close to the southern border. I’ve been immune for some time up here, but we’re starting to see moslems in greater numbers. Of course I can’t carry my kimber, and that aggravates me to no end.
My problem is trying to find the acreage with “reasonable” driving distance to the high paying jobs available in the Houston area oil /gas/petrochem industries.
The East side has shown some more possibilities that I haven’t found Southwest.
Come on down to the Missouri Ozarks.
Low taxes, low cost of living. Fish year round.
Deer, turkey in the woods. Pheasants further north.
Shoot your gun.
Did I mention low taxes ?
Is the east a dustbowl? I can handle weather, but flat with no features would tire on me heh.
That sounds like a good time too. I’m a journeyman electrician, so I’d just need reliable work. I typically do oilfield but I can do about anything. I’m not incredibly fond of residential though.
It is flat, the coastal plain is, well, a plain.
Residential is not normally going to pay like Oil/Gas/Petrochem industrial either.
If they don’t understand Class 1, Div 1/2, Groups B, C and D, it isn’t going to pay as well.
Looks lush over there, is there oil fields there? Heh
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