[ExSoldier]

WOW!!! My wife and I were born and raised in Miami-Dade County, Florida. We visited Texas last year for the first time to pick up the newest member of our family a Newfoundland pup from a breeder in Blanco, near San Antonio.We fell in love with Texas! The people were all so NICE. Even the chef at Denny's came out to the car to see our new pup and gave her some steak-to-go free of charge. As I said...very nice folks. We liked San Antonio, but don't know what it's like politically. Liked Austin but kinda figure that area is pretty far left. Correct? My wife just loves Fort Worth. She went out there for a teacher's conference. I still haven't been there. We're both high school teachers, but my wife is close to retirement, while I'm not. We'll wait for her to retire....maybe I'd teach out there. I'm recently 46...pretty old to start a new career. Maybe we'd retire to Texas....but I'd like some feedback on the area.

[The UnVeiled Lady]

Texas welcomes all gun LOVERS.
Gun-grabbers should go to CA.

[TexasCowboy]

ExSoldier, I went to college in Austin, and that's probably the most left wing city in Texas.
There's some good folks there, too, but I could never live there again.
Houston is more metropolitan than Texan, but it's a good place to live.
San Antonio has always been a very friendly city, although it's fast becoming more like Mexico than Texas.
The Dallas-Ft. Worth area is Texas in a big way. If you need the big city atmosphere with the flavor of Texas, that's the place.
'Course I'm a country boy myself so my opinion is biased.