I read an article in Texas Monthly several years ago about the Waggoner Ranch up in wilbarger County.
They quoted one of the cowboys on the ranch to the effect that he'd gone off to college in the city. But, after a while, he concluded that him and the city just weren't made for each other. So, he moved back to the ranch and cowboying.
The "city" he was referring to was...Vernon.
I went to college in SA-lived in the burbs as far outside of it as affordable for years-when MrT5 retired from the military and took a job several counties away in a small city, I was delighted to move back into a remote area-I will never leave again-I’m just not cut out for living in a city...