Posted on 06/27/2012 11:39:43 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Same here. My friends moved down 10 years ago and haven’t looked back. Been down to visit about 4 times. I fell in love with Texas. Hoping to retire down there in a couple of years.
It's supposed to get down to 102* in Dallas by Friday...So ya got a cooling trend coming.
Way back in the 50's, my dad performed with Willie Nelson and Doug Sahm & the Knights. He did the song "Pretty Pat" on a Doug Sahm LP.
It’s 104 in Austin today.
Texas summers are God’s way of telling whiny Yankess to go home.
You forgot scorpions. We have scorpions everywhere in Texas.
Everyone is issued a dozen scorpions as pets when they move to Texas.
I think I've also heard that bears have been seen in Texas, not to mention the feral hogs and billions of fire ants.
Let's face it, it's just not a safe place to live. /s
I wasn’t born in Texas, but grew up learning about real heros like Davy Crockett, Col. Travis and Sam Houston. I came to San Antonio in 2001 and the very first thing I wanted to do was visit the Alamo. Sacred ground. I left Texas a couple of times but always came back.
Sure, we have heat and water restrictions and flying bugs the size of Volkswagens. And don’t forget the.....”far aints”. But freedom and the pioneer spirit are alive and well here.
Texas is Home.
The recession and bitter winters of the late 1970's drove a lot of northeasterners down here to Texas. It was the era of Gilley's night club and "Urban Cowboy". Pasadena was full of pickup trucks with rifles & shotguns openly displayed in window racks.
Those days are long gone. The 'Yankee Horde" descended like a plague of liberal locusts, and Texas hasn't been the same since. Some of the Texas congressional dimwits (Sheila Jackson-Lee, Al Green) are transplants dating from that time. Now history repeats itself.
...and we all have guns and will shoot you if you knock on our door.
Jalapenos in every dish in every restaurant including waffles.
Next session of the state legislature, we are passing a bill limiting the ability of immigrants from New York and California to vote. You will only be allowed to vote for Republican candidates, you ballot will list no democrats, socialists or new black panthers. We can’t do anything about our native born custard heads, but you furriners should let us run our state our way.
But will these people from the east and west coast change Texas? That’s what happened in North Carolina, I believe. These people do not want to pay taxes but they love abortion.
Try living in NYC when the temperature hits 104 (and it does). My high heels get caught in all that nasty melted tar...
When I lived in Texas (moved this year - long story), we made it clear that we thought libs who moved there were defective idiots whom we disliked. We ridiculed them mercilessly about obastard. Every time they’d spew libthink, we’d mock their idiocy mercilessly.
Chased a fair number of them back to their respective libland states in short order. It can be done.
I totally agree!! It’s a TERRIBLE place to live!! DON’T COME!! You’ll hate it!!
Sinssg it loud!
Unfortunately, all of America has crazy, crazy weather. My ex-pat friends in England are always telling their anti-American British friends that they can’t understand our great country without understanding our weather.
California has had some devastating earthquakes as I’m sure you know. No state in the Union escapes nutso weather.
I love Texas! My son and his family live in Webster, right outside Houston. My saying is if it’s not in Houston, then it’s nowhere. They have everything you could want. There is one drawback though. The property taxes in Texas are pretty high. They don’t have a state income tax, but they make up for it with those property taxes. They do have good schools, but if you buy a house around $250,000, you have to tack on at least $500 a month or more to your mortgage for property taxes.
Tx has its faults too. Had a vehicle sitting in my garage since 2005 and Title was never transferred to my name. When I went to DMV today to get the title transferred in my name I had to pay a bunch. But if the sale happended in 2006 or later they were going to charge me even more at $25.00 mo. for not having the title transferred in my name. Govt. sucks everywhere.
First of all, G-d bless Texas!
But I think I’ll stay right here in the disgustin’ decadent, backward, bigoted, last-in-everything-of-all-fifty-states backwater called South Carolina. Cuz I luvz it here!
Anyway, wasn’t there a Muzzie problem in Katie, Texas, a few years ago? The muzzies tried to run off a local property owner so their new mosque could have a huge parking lot, and the owner responded by holding pig races on his land.
IIRC, the mosque was abandoned soon after. Comments?
The way I look at it, if we didn’t have June, July, and August, the state would look like India or Bangladesh.
Their numbers will continue to grow right along with the illegal population.
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