Been there, done that, got over it a long time ago...
Sorry to bust your bubble, but it's not as special as you make it sound.
The flag thing is cool, the state by treaty thing is cool, the fact that they have their own grid, their own standing army and the fact that corporate law is special in Texas is all cool stuff.
But what have you done with those cool legal differences lately? I think the last hurrah was when Connally and the Hunt family planned to secede and make the currency of Texas backed by silver and issued by First Republic Bank of Texas. They were stomped on by the powers that be and high points in Texas history are just that now, history.
Texas is just one more state in the union these days. It's big yeah... so what?
I lived there for over ten years. Worked construction for a while, worked on an operating nuclear plant for a while and owned a business there for a while. It's nothing special and most (nearly all) of the "cowboys" I met there were as fake as a three dollar bill.
Sorry, it just ain't that special anymore.
Lloyd227, Just curious as to what part of the country you live in now? Also, if you had the opportunity to live anywhere you wished in our beautiful America, where would it be?
We were all talking just the other day about how glad we were that you had gone.
Its gotten better, once you left.