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Old 08-10-2008, 04:53 PM
 
Location: Austin, TX
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I could live with Texas becoming a red state as I am more liberal than most of my Texas friends. However, it is not going to happen any time in the near future. I doubt if it ever happens. I always expect to waste my vote for president. (Don't tell anyone, but I am a Democrat.) Truthfully, I am not so liberal as I am a moderate who leans to the left, but in Texas, that is considered liberal.
I think you meant "blue." Blue states are considered more Democratic and liberal.
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Old 08-10-2008, 05:22 PM
 
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I think you meant "blue." Blue states are considered more Democratic and liberal.
Yes, I got my reds and blues reversed. Sorry. Blame it on senility.
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Old 08-10-2008, 05:32 PM
 
Location: Somewhere in Texas
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I agree with you there. But it's SO annoying having to swat those mosquitoes all the time!

By the way, I think anyone who wants to leave Texas, should. I see no reason for someone to stay here (or anywhere) if they wish to be elsewhere. I just find some of the reasons given to be interesting, given that they don't seem to apply to the state that I know and love, if one looks further than one's back yard.
Sometimes people can't leave for one reason or another or just won't anyway. There are a lot of great things about Texas and any other state for that matter but it seems that no matter where one lives, there will be somethng that just isn't "quite right." By the way, I'll take the real mosquitoes any day to the human ones.
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Old 08-10-2008, 05:49 PM
 
Location: in my mind
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I never found that Dallas was as hot as Austin, never mind San Antonio. (I lived there for many years before moving to Austin, and I still visit family that lives there.)
My kids just came back from Dallas and stepped off the plane and said "UGH!" in unison. Temps were about the same but they said it was more humid here... however it depends on your heat tolerance as an individual. To me, the difference is practically nil and hot is hot... I am a 60 or below kind of gal.
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Old 08-10-2008, 06:13 PM
 
Location: Central Texas
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Sometimes people can't leave for one reason or another or just won't anyway. There are a lot of great things about Texas and any other state for that matter but it seems that no matter where one lives, there will be somethng that just isn't "quite right." By the way, I'll take the real mosquitoes any day to the human ones.
I'm not sure I agree with you there, because I've lived in Texas my whole life (with a brief sojourn in Seattle), and I don't have the experience that there is something that just isn't "quite right" about it. Maybe it's an individual thing - some people will always have that feeling no matter where they are, others won't.
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Old 08-10-2008, 08:37 PM
 
Location: Somewhere in Texas
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I'm not sure I agree with you there, because I've lived in Texas my whole life (with a brief sojourn in Seattle), and I don't have the experience that there is something that just isn't "quite right" about it. Maybe it's an individual thing - some people will always have that feeling no matter where they are, others won't.
Well, I didn't mean anything bad when I said "not quite right." If nothing else in Texas bothers you, it would be those blasted California mosquitoes that do.

In other words, anyone can find something they don't like any place they live whether it be tornadoes, earthquakes, some of the people, bugs, heat, cold, expenses, or whatever. Most of those things don't have to be troublesome per se, but every place has its not so desirable things. At least, I think they do.
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Old 08-11-2008, 07:30 AM
 
Location: St. Louis, Missouri
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born and raised in houston and spent a LOT of my youth in the rockport area....

left at age 26 in 1986 ......

divorce + the economy at that time.....

there are cool things about st. louis .... the architecture and sense of history come immediately to mind for me..... as do the hills and dense forests all around.....

don't even mind the snow so much, not that we have had much of THAT in recent winters....

what i can no longer take is the day after day after day after ENDLESS day of cold, gray, DEAD skies through january, february and march.....

i also DEARLY miss being on or close to the water ..... sure we have rivers, lakes, ponds and streams, but it is NOT the same..... i miss the coast.....

had i not moved my mother here in 1998 due to her declining health, i would have been back "home" in texas after my last divorce in 2004. as things stand now, i am stuck here for another 2-3 years until the housing market gets back to some semblance of normalcy.....

will not be going back to houston though...... looking at victoria and corpus.... and bellestar and johnbain, i am well aware of your opinions of those areas, but in all honesty, don't think the issues there are any worse than any other areas of comparable size.

and i love north carolina .... you are absolutely correct.... the area that you long for is GORGEOUS..... have been there on several occasions and have even driven "the dragon" on a saturday morning ..... WHAT fun that was... so i wish you godspeed in getting to your longed-for destination.
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Old 08-11-2008, 03:18 PM
 
Location: Portland, Maine
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Texas, being so large has a lot of variety. I would think anyone would find a corner he or she would like.
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Old 08-11-2008, 08:03 PM
 
Location: God's Country
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Texas, being so large has a lot of variety. I would think anyone would find a corner he or she would like.
Yea, you would think since it's so BIG, but sadly it's not.
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Old 08-11-2008, 08:41 PM
 
Location: Where I live.
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Texas, being so large has a lot of variety. I would think anyone would find a corner he or she would like.
Yes, just about everyone can find something they like.

Unfortunately, all of the state is HOT in the summer, and the heat lasts forever, like from April to the end of October.

The only cool, high elevation spot in the state (even Ft. Davis, Alpine and Marfa get hot as hell in the summer, despite having high elevations) is the Gudadalupe Mountains....and the highest part is now a state park.

I love my native state (especially the western part)...but I am really tired of the long, hot summers.
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