Posted on 09/27/2022 8:32:32 AM PDT by lowbridge
My children were born in New York City. As toddlers, they played in the American Museum of Natural History, joined baby-music classes on the Upper East Side, gnawed on street pretzels, and threw leaves in the air in Central Park.
I had originally expected to be a Manhattan mom, but over the years I've come to accept they are now southern kids living in Houston, Texas.
They wear shorts year-round, wear sunshine on their skin, crave Whataburger, have never made a snowman, and get pumped for Go Texan Day, dressed in boots, vests, and hats — it's like Halloween twice a year in my eyes.
It wasn't my idea to move from a comfortable life in Manhattan to Houston, my ex's home city. I thought it was supposed to be temporary, but I was wrong.
Texas showed me BBQ festivals, square dancing, bluebonnets, and the flaws of my marriage. Now with a Texas divorce decree and the kids settled in school with friends and activities, it seems like I'm stuck here for good, or at least until my kids grow up.
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There are also experiences that remind me I'm in Texas, like a dead snake's skin being tangled in my daughter's scooter wheels, a "beware of alligators" sign at a playground, armadillo sightings, a lack of road shoulders, and guns-and-ammo signs next to a pet store.
I worry about my kids' safety wherever they go while living in a state with historically loose gun laws. I worry about what women's health will be like for my daughter's generation. I debate on how young of an age I will tell her about contraceptives because of the war on women's access to care and treatment in this state.
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>>> I sometimes wish we had never moved.<<<
I too wish you had never moved. You BELONG in New York.
Nothing is stopping you from going back to “safe” New York, Karen. Whiny Yankees are a nuisance.
I do feel sorry for your kids, though.
Never have thought of that as bad, probably because I grew up here.
She is correct about one thing. Her kids are in real danger.
From their mother.
Hopefully growing up among sane Texans will save them.
Stupib bitch is close to the border...
She should try Mexico... Permanently...
The other thing about DFW is that it is so flat. In the 1980's from the old Hilton Hotel in Plano I once counted 13 water towers outside my window. That's some flat land. But there was much that I liked there.
“New York City!”
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Her future grandchildren will be a lot safer in Texas. They might even get out of the womb alive.
She forgot to mention the dead bloated dogs lining the sides of every street in the city, and left there for days. I’ve never seen anything like it, anywhere!
She has culture shock. I get it. But if you give the people there half a chance, you’ll find out they are really good people. They make it worth the time there.
Doctors have been flocking to Texas since tort reform. There is no shortage of physicians in Texas.
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We haven’t been there (used to be there, regularly, until family, thankfully moved, before China virus lockdowns 🙏🏻🙏🏻), in three years.
It was definitely a cesspool, then…and, I can only go by accounts that I read here (almost daily, violent crimes) and that I see on the news/news outlets.
Glad you have a driver to get you directly where you need to be. We did, too.
It has changed so much, since when we first began visiting family, there.. :-(
Maybe in the Bronx or some parts of Brooklyn. I know how Manhattan was three years ago and it has definitely changed.
NYC is a very big place so there is always something bad the media can report on. But you're very unlikely to see any of it traveling from the Lincoln Tunnel or the GW Bridge to the Upper East Side.
ML/NJ
For every liberal Democrat.
This is how once conservative California turned crazed commie. Transplants from the east coast states.
Watch out, Texans!
This was in Manhattan - East side.
I say it’s best to corral all the cuckoo leftists in one blue city
I’m sure most comments have been posted. I just want to note that Texas is a very large state. She would move further north and find snow. Amarillo is a great city. There are many choices in Texas you can’t complain.
Yes; Manhattan is so safe by comparison!
I am thinking of buying bill board space.
“I am from Chicago.
Do not vote Democrat unless you
want Chiraq here in SoFlo.”
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