Posted on 10/27/2013 4:12:52 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
They say the Lone Star State has four seasons: drought, flood, blizzard and twister. This summer 97% of the state was in a persistent drought; in 2011 the Dallas-Fort Worth area experienced 40 straight days in July and August of temperatures of 100° or higher. The state's social services are thin. Welfare benefits are skimpy. Roughly a quarter of residents have no health insurance. Many of its schools are less than stellar. Property-crime rates are high. Rates of murder and other violent crimes are hardly sterling either. So why are more Americans moving to Texas than to any other state? Texas is America's fastest-growing large state, with three of the top five fastest-growing cities in the country: Austin, Dallas and Houston. In 2012 alone, total migration to Texas from the other 49 states in the Union was 106,000, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Since 2000, 1 million more people have moved to Texas from other states than have left.
As an economist and a libertarian, I have become convinced that whether they know it or not, these migrants are being pushed (and pulled) by the major economic forces that are reshaping the American economy as a whole: the hollowing out of the middle class, the increased costs of living in the U.S.'s established population centers and the resulting search by many Americans for a radically cheaper way to live and do business.
To a lot of Americans, Texas feels like the future. And I would argue that more than any other state, Texas looks like the future as well — offering us a glimpse of what's to come for the country at large in the decades ahead.....
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I notice you didn’t say how “reasonable” your electric bill is.
just curious....
“Texas is really horrible, Yankees and Californians. Please stay away for your own good. Don’t even visit, much less consider moving here.”
Usually I would ignore an asinine comment like this but I am getting so fed up with some people spouting this garbage. I am a YANKEE, born and bred in Rhode Island. If you asked my Father what nationality he was he would just say he was a Yankee. When you make fool comments you insult the integrity of my Father, a life long Republican. My Father loved political discussions and always supported the conservative view. He once said he would vote for a Democrat but he could never find one worth voting for.
My Father was the youngest of six children and was 12 when his Father died. He enlisted in the Army at 17 and spent 4 years fighting the Germans in WWII. Upon his return he and my Mother married and were together until his death at the age of 74. He was pro life, pro marriage, and a strict Baptist. He didn’t say “Bless you”. He said “God Bless you”.
Texas would have been privileged to have such a man.
I moved to Texas 2 years ago and everything I hold dear I learned from my Father. I don’t care if you don’t want this Yankee here because I am staying.
Well, I spent a couple of decades in my townhouse. The electric bill was very reasonable. I was in heaven ... house like an ice box.
I just recently decided to “go native” and bought a very cute Spanish Colonial built in 1924 that is 2 blocks from the LA River [great to walk the dogs]. The bill is off the charts. I’m clearly going to have to install better AC in this antique!
Nope...looks like it is wishful thinkin’...From the author...
Yep, most people give into the “bad hair days” with a style all their own...
I agree. We would have been privileged and blessed to have had your father live here.
Gosh, I really wish EVERYONE, that means Texans too, to stay away from California. My family has lived here and farmed since the 1870s and hate having to host freeloaders.
We know we have it great ...but just leave us alone!!!
That’s all true, and you didn’t even mention the Messicans.
Humidity affects hair? My condolences.
My hair is still long and straight. :o)
Thats right.... no one from up north or California would want to live here. Our food is terrible, our women are ugly, and we ran out of beer years ago.... I think they would be happier where they are.
You know something...I had my grandfather tell me once how they dealt with the heat...
It had to do a lot woth how houses were built, how it was ventilated, ceiling fans, lots of trees to shade certain parts of the house at certain times of the day...
Hedges planted and trimmed to keep the winter breezes from making things a little too chilly in the few days winter held onto the situation...
All in all it is a way of life, that is lived in many states in this union, so bottm line is the weather is just what you make of it...
If you live on the coast, well, those things they call hurricanes can be exciting for a few hours in your day, or night...I can’t sleep through them, never have...My wife sleeps like a lumberjack through them...But again, its just weather...
As for the issue of transplants, Texas has had some good ones, and some bad ones...Just because our states economy is the envy of those that live in states where their government screws the people over every chance they get, I recommend those folks get their own house in order before you come here riding the coat-tails of our hard work...
I was born here, and I expect to die here...So I believe there is loyalty in longevity, and if you come here, don’t expect to change things (politically) to your liking without a real fight...
It is not a perfect place to hang your hat, but it is not so much where it is with whom you hang your hat with that is important...
Bum Phillips had it right, Texas is a way of life, he lived it, his old boss “Bud” Adams passed away recently as well, but the outlook was completely diffferent, Bud Adams didn;t live it, he tried to buy it, and failed...
A lesson some need to consider before thinking this is something they can make fit their outlook on “things”...
Just my opinion...
It seems that to finish reading this, I have to set up an account, and I don’t want to do that.
Move here, and I guarantee you that will change...;-)
Excuse me???
Texas has a great music and dance scene, too, don’t forget. If I were 30 years younger and healthier, I’d be there in a heartbeat.
LOLOL!
As long as Texas stays red, we are in good shape. If it goes purple or blue, the United States is OVER.
Yeah, our politician suck. But life in California is pretty great.
My dad, his 9 brothers and 2 sisters. All farmers except the two sisters who were nuns, lived here long and hardy. A good life with abundance which is the most that Americans can hope for.
I still not find the “good” of CA in any state ... except CA. It is wonderful here.
LOL!
I live in Dallas, and I happy to report there are four - most years.
Time Magazine?
Feeling old. I remember when people actually read it.
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