Texas is great....wide open spaces, same shopping that you can do in NYC, LA, Paris...for the most part. Great food and great people.
Which area of Texas are you?
I’m in SE TX but we also spend a lot of time in the Texas Hill Country.
I lived in Houston for my couple years of Pastoral Care at SW Memorial Hospital (now part of Hermann). I worked with Hospice, AIDS and cancer patients Essentially all my patients died. On my days off getaways to San Antonio and Matagorda (before it was a state park and just a sleepy SMALL fishing village) were my escapes. Miss Texas. Had a job awaiting me in Charleston .. Pastoral care but instead came to Ohio to take care of mom as she was given 3-6 months to live. The hospital said they would wait. Mom lived 20 more years. Am I a good caregiver or what? Well, basically just took her off ALL HER ESSENTIAL meds. within a few days she was a new woman Never had problems with any of the conditions she was medicated for.
Texas people were so great. Well they still are.. :-)
My sister was in Kerrville, mother in Boerne, other sister in San Antonio.