Midland is way better than Odessa. Odessa has a more blue collar, lower income population and some bad neighborhoods on the west side. While both are heavily Mexican, Midland less so.
The wind always blows, always. Summers are miserable hot and winters are cold, wet, and windy or cold, dry, and windy.
3+ hours to El Paso, 2 hours to Abilene, around 1.5 to Lubbock.
The seasons in west Texas: Spring - warm, very windy, dry, dusty and tornadoes; Summer - hot, windy, dry, dusty; Fall - warm, dry, windy, dusty; Winter - cold, very windy, dry, dusty.
Did not know Midland so close to other pop. centers
Abilene 100k+ , Lubbock 300k+
Midland 115k+ / Odessa 100k / El Paso 650k