That sounds lovely. I understand why you love it.
Today I had a revealing interchange with a fellow Texan. He was pick up two bags of ice from the freezer in front of the local convenience store. I instinctively held the door for him. He thanked me but said he was not going inside. I nodded and went inside.
Then it dawned on me why Texas is different from Massachusetts from which I fled. In Massachusetts few people would hold the door open for another person nor would anyone in Massachusetts be likely to thank me for holding the door for them. But that was not what struck me as the important difference.
I realized that here in Texas people pay for their ice and then pick it up from the cooler outside which is unlocked. In Massachusetts, the cooler is locked. When a person purchases ice one of the people from the convenience store unlocks the cooler, lets the person have the ice they purchased and locks the cooler.
In short, not only are people here more refined and friendly, they are also more honest than the jamokes living in Massachusetts.