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Couldn't pay me to live io Texas, anywhere. Maybe Austin, but it's too crowded and expensive nowadays. As for New Mexico, I'll happily live there for free. (rhetorically speaking)
Some of us have never really spent time in Texas and I'm willing to admit that Jimbo has a point. But there are plenty of other places that have the same thing to offer that Jimbo states in his post. To each his own.
I completely get it, out of the entire US, my list of possibile future residences doesn't include TX either. I feel the need to type my response because I have been dumbstruck by the recent growth of negative stereotyping and unfounded opinion about a couple states. It's as if people without any experience about a place are genuinely believing nonsense stereotypes and illogically applying them to huge varied places, indiscriminately.
Then why don't Texans stay in Texas instead of crowding into New Mexico?
Where do you see Texans crowding into New Mexico? I see more midwesterners and Californians moving to New Mexico than Texans and I have lived in Texas, there are a lot of good reasons to move to Texas, including lots of well paying jobs. I love New Mexico and will not be moving away again, though I do earn a good living working remotely for a Texas company, and I could never earn this much for any New Mexico based company.
Do you know the difference between your argument and a knife? A knife has a point.
Have you not lived in many different places?
There are plenty of NM license plates in TX, the state border isn't the wall of china. You might be surprised to know that people travel all over the USA in cars, and often to places that are just over the border in a neighboring state.
I'm sharing observations, not making an argument.
As the old saying goes: "Poor New Mexico, so far from God, so close to Texas."
But obviously all those Texans visiting are contributing to NM's economy. I don't know any New Mexicans who take vacations in Texas unless they have family there.
Where do you see Texans crowding into New Mexico? I see more midwesterners and Californians moving to New Mexico than Texans and I have lived in Texas, there are a lot of good reasons to move to Texas, including lots of well paying jobs. I love New Mexico and will not be moving away again, though I do earn a good living working remotely for a Texas company, and I could never earn this much for any New Mexico based company.
As I said above, I meant traveling here. But my neighbors in Albuquerque moved here from Texas. Fine people. Several of my work colleagues were from Texas, and I dated someone from Amarillo. You can't swing a dead cat in New Mexico without hitting a Texan.
As the old saying goes: "Poor New Mexico, so far from God, so close to Texas."
But obviously all those Texans visiting are contributing to NM's economy. I don't know any New Mexicans who take vacations in Texas unless they have family there.
I never heard that saying, kind of a weird saying. There are a lot of people who live in NM and vacation in TX. There is great fishing, hunting, camping, big amusement parks, the place JFK was shot, National Horse Museum, professional football (my daughter's in-laws spent every thanksgiving in Dalls for the Dallas Cowboys holiday home game) ...
I never heard that saying, kind of a weird saying. There are a lot of people who live in NM and vacation in TX. There is great fishing, hunting, camping, big amusement parks, the place JFK was shot, National Horse Museum, professional football (my daughter's in-laws spent every thanksgiving in Dalls for the Dallas Cowboys holiday home game) ...
Texans come to NM for the casinos and skiing.
I suspect the opposite in true. The Moreno Valley (Angel Fire, Eagle Nest and Red River) is called Little Texas. Almost any holiday and most of winter, the place is full of Texans. We had a house in Angel Fire for more than a decade and it seemed there was always more Texans in town than New Mexicans. We bought that house from a Texan and sold it to a Texan.
I never heard that saying, kind of a weird saying. There are a lot of people who live in NM and vacation in TX. There is great fishing, hunting, camping, big amusement parks, the place JFK was shot, National Horse Museum, professional football (my daughter's in-laws spent every thanksgiving in Dalls for the Dallas Cowboys holiday home game) ...
Texans come to NM for the casinos and skiing.
New Mexicans going to "vacation" in Texas have to travel across half the state of Texas to get to anything they don't already have in New Mexico.
Some of us have never really spent time in Texas and I'm willing to admit that Jimbo has a point. But there are plenty of other places that have the same thing to offer that Jimbo states in his post. To each his own.
Well, there are Texans just about everywhere here and I'm too familiar with Texas as it is. I've been to every major city (except Lubbock) and a lot of small ones from Dalhart to Brownsville and Marfa to Huntsville. Offspring went to Baylor in Waco. None of the cities are worth the time to visit with the possible exception of San Antonio. There are two other things worth visiting in Texas -- Big Bend NP and Padre Island national seashore. People tell me how wonderful the Hill Country is - been there - but sadly, if that is the best they can come up with. I can see why they might need to get away.
I once met a Texan from Dallas at the Gilman Tunnels in the Jemez Mountains. He was by himself and said he drove straight from Dallas to get away for a day and see something else. He was going to spend the night someplace (Santa Fe or Los Alamos) and drive back the next day. That seemed like maybe a mental health trip but a long (700 mile) drive by yourself. He needed a break from Texas. I have a friend from Amarillo that does the same thing.
I have been to Texas several times as a tourist, usually in combination with visiting different friends who lived there at various times. I did enjoy San Antonio, its missions, the Alamo, and Riverwalk. Dallas has some interesting and funky parts to it, and I got to do Six Flags and the Book Depository Building. Austin was also a great place to spend a few days. Went canoeing on Town Lake, climbed Mount Bonnell (really a bluff), and visited the UT Art Museum (ironically, the first work of art I saw there was by a New Mexico artist).
I'd like to get back to El Paso since I only stopped there for lunch once on my way through to Mexico. They have restored streetcars now which is something I'm interested in. I've never been to Houston which has the Skyspace at Rice University which looks intriguing. All the major cities have excellent museums thanks to lots of wealthy donors.
I think I'm talking myself into a trip next door, maybe this fall...
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