1. Houston and environs (Harris County and surrounding counties are very conservative, best cost of living, much more cosmopolitan than Dallas, lots of jobs, hard summers but the other seasons are terric to good))
2. Fort Worth (a wonderful, conservative, small city)
3. San Antonio/HillCountry area (a beautiful area with many retirees and military)
4. Dallas (a poor man’s Houston - more liberal, higher cost of living, hard winters give it worse weather than Houston, large financial sector)
5. Austin - only if you like living with university faculty leftists, university students, university hangers-on (they just like the “scene”), and government “workers” (yes, there are people in a tech sector, but they want to be like the lefties in Silicon Valley)
“Houston and environs (Harris County and surrounding counties are very conservative, best cost of living, much more cosmopolitan than Dallas, lots of jobs, hard summers but the other seasons are terric to good”
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“Much more cosmopolitan than Dallas”.... You are SERIOUSLY right about that. Houston is so cosmopolitan its hard to tell its still part of The US.
But in a few years the Dalllas-Fort Woth Mexoplex might rival it.