Posted on 05/01/2013 7:24:19 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
“Most of Texas is similar to the San Joaquin valley in California, and real estate is truly dirt cheap there.
Is there a “Clear Lake” in Texas?
As I understrand it, there are no natural lakes in Tx; is that correct?”
You ain’t fr’m Texas, are ya? Boy it is hard to unpack all that.
East Texas, the Piney Woods, the Coastal Plain are about as like the San Joacquin Valley as the San Joacquin Valley is to New England. In fact West Texas ain’t a whole lot like the San Joacquin Valley, either. It’s desert. You could make a case that Central Texas is like the San Joacquin Valley but, that is a pretty small part of the state.
Clear Lake is indeed a lake, is indeed in Texas, and is a natural lake. It is more a of a tidal estuary since a ship channel was dug into it allowing water from Galveston Bay, but before that it was a fresh-water lake and was clear. And Texas has at least one other natural lake (Caddo Lake).
The Johnson Space Center is in the Clear Lake Area (which is in the Greater Houston-Galveston Metropolitan Area, which resembles the L.A. area a lot more than it resembles the San Joaquin Valley.
Don’t really care what property in the Clear Lake area of California costs, other than it doesn’t cost what property does in the Clear Lake area of Texas.
As far as I know the majority of the population of California does not live in the San Joaquin Valley. Property in Houston, Dallas-Fort Worth, and San Antonio doesn’t cost much more than the the San Joaquin Valley, but it sure costs a lot less than it does in major metropolitan centers of California such as Los Angeles, San Diego, or San-Francisco Oakland — which are more analogous to major metropolitan areas of Texas than is the San Joaquin Valley.
The lower central valley of California, up to Rio Vista, is classified as a part of the Great Mojave Desert.
Irrigation has turned some of it into farm land, but its still hot and dry.
“The lower central valley of California, up to Rio Vista, is classified as a part of the Great Mojave Desert.”
Irrigation has turned some of it into farm land, but its still hot and dry.”
In that case your original point is even *less* relevant. Even less of the state of Texas is like the Central Valley.
It looks exactly the same to me, driving through them.
“It looks exactly the same to me, driving through them.”
If you say so. You have never been to 60% of Texas, if the parts you have driven through look *exactly* the same as the Central Valley of California. Maybe you should expand your horizons.
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