Echo that. But all in all I'd say that Texas has done a pretty good job of keeping its cities livable, Austin's traffic notwithstanding.
Do think again. We're paying over 600 bones/month (Property taxes, alone) just for the priviledge of living here.
Austin, Travis County, et al, have gone slap-dap nuts!
(Oh yeah, we just voted in a Hospital Taxing District!)
It's not 1966, anymore, Toto...and this is not Kansas, either.)