Some parts of TX are conservative and booming. And I love those Texans that live there. But I am looking north and west. I need four seasons, or at least 5 months of real winter. Additionally, imagine a state that doesn’t have a major US city ... that works. If TX could get rid of the bad parts of DFW, Houston, and Austin then we are talking,
Texas is way better than the nutty state I came from in NE after 30 years and Dallas is not to bad either.
We live in Denton, which is both part of DFW and far enough away from what qualifies as “slums” in Dallas & Ft Worth that they won’t be bothering us. There’re too many armed citizens between us and them.