Posted on 01/31/2011 7:05:33 AM PST by mikelets456
Ok, I am from NJ. Between the high taxes, strict gun laws and crazy liberals I am seriously thinking about moving... have been thinking this for quite some time. Right now I have three children and have to pay for private schooling for all three because the public school's agenda's here are disingenuous and horrible. I want to make sure I do not go from the frying pan into the fire. I have a few choices for job transfers to NC, TX and OH. I need to be in a good area as I have a Neurological disorder and need an area with good doctors. However, I want to look at a state that will not give into any FEDERAL PRESSURE regardless (Are there any states left?). Looking for good infrastructure, few unions, decent schools (or good private schools), friendly gun laws and good hospitals. I guess what I am looking for is a a state that will stick to Constitutional principals regardless of what happens.
Texas - but not Austin because it’s very liberal unless you can live in Hill Country. Suburbs of Houston are great - Sugar Land, Pearland, Clear Lake, The Woodlands, Conroe. If you feel you must live inside the Loop would confine to River Oaks, Bellaire or West University areas. Great private schools. Medical Center rated top notch for treatment by reputation. Would not go anywhere near any of the Houston Independent School District schools and do everything I could to avoid the Southwest or East sides of Houston. Spent some time in Dallas last summer. Found some areas getting really infested with crime. Hill Country is awesome. Lot of it depends on how close you want to be to the water.
>> And they’re big scorpions! About the size of a rabbit!
...not counting the tail. The tail alone is as big as a rattlesnake from most other places (of course Texas rattlesnakes are as big as anacondas).
And as gitmogrunt so aptly put it, TEXAS SUMMERS SUCK!!! Frankly, four out of five new residents don’t survive their first brutal summer. It can be heartbreaking to new pioneer families but it does keep the population in check.
Y’all yankees want to think three times about moving to Texas.
[But seriously we welcome conservative hard-working NON-union LEGAL emigres from points north! I was kidding, a few actually DO survive their first summer. :-)]
>> If you feel you must live inside the Loop would confine to River Oaks...
Whoa, baby! You’re doing OK. Are there any more like you at home? :-)
Near perfect year round weather in California is worth a *fortune* to us!
I've been in sweltering nasty humidity, and bone chilling cold....Never again!
Life is too short!
Texas is a hell hole. Try North Georgia, Eastern TN, Raleigh Durham NC, Charlotte.
Property tax is high.
Not at all. They're what's for dinner tonight. ;o)
You don’t have to tell me. I’m an east Texas girl. ;)
Good for you!!!
BTTT
I am looking too.
Right now Texas & Alabama look appealing
My son family are in NC so ruling out the western half of US
also I want to be warm. I am SICK of winter
Last time I was in Texas, the weather was hellish, even our sun glasses were fogging over from the brutal heat and sweltering humidity..
But I strongly suggest several million leave CA immediately for Texas, as they have lots of jobs and cheap homes.
Birmingham Alabama and Huntville are also good places. Very cheap.
That’s nothing, in California there are huge packs of AIDs infected pit bulls running the streets and ghetto shacks cost 350K.
We are going to be a LOT sicker of it over the next 48 hours or so... :-(
Nope - south florida, but north of Miami. Fort Lauderdale is about as far south as you'd want to go unless you were into the hispanic scene. The keys are too hard to get too and get off of.
I lived in Houston once. About the rudest crudest people I have ever been around. Mean town. Probably due to the miserable weather. Terrible traffic, drivers, road rage.
However it is super cheap living there and there are jobs. I would live up north or Houston if I were to live there again. Either that or Katy.
Fort Worth appeals to me. Dallas too yuppy. Austin not big enough. Just my two cents.
But seriously we welcome conservative hard-working NON-union LEGAL emigres from points north! I was kidding, a few actually DO survive their first summer. :-)
I echo that sentiment, NT. My Aunt moved here 2 years ago from VT. (Sadly, she does not meet the criteria you mentioned but that's another story.) My Dad told her we handle Texas summers the way she handled VT winters. Stay inside and avoid the heat, not unlike staying inside to avoid the cold.
I wouldn't recommended CA to anyone!
TN has a high tax on investment income, and a huge liability caused by TN's precursor to 0bamacare called "tenncare" TN would not be a good place to live from an economic standpoint.
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