In other words, Texas is great for business but it sucks to be an employee for one of those businesses...
Actually it means Education and Quality of Life measuring scales are created by someone who doesn't appreciate the Freedoms granted individuals in Texas.
I've lived in the Midwest, East Coast and Alaska. I've worked extended stays in California and other locations. By my measuring stick, the quality of life is very high.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/47818866
The Quality of Life category, worth 350 points, is relatively straight forward. Criteria include air and water quality, health care, crime rate and local attractions.
Based on that, it’s easy to see how sparsely populated states like the Dakotas, Colorado, Utah and Wyoming would fare well in terms of air and water quality.
Yet, Hawaii is the 13th most-densely populated state in the nation and New Hampshire not far behind at 21. Alaska, with fewer people per square mile than any other state (according to Census Department data), didn’t even make the top 25 in the category.
Attractions clearly play a role, which explains Hawaii’s perennial strong showing. Natural beauty, national parks, skiing, hiking, boating also no doubt helped Colorado, Wyoming and Utah.
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I don’t see personal freedoms or access to jobs in their description of quality of life. Those are pretty high on determining my personal quality of life, how about yours?
Relatively knee jerk conclusion. It sucks to be unemployed and needing a job.
It is mildly annoying to have a job you don’t like.
Damn right. Too hot in the summer, day after day of 100+ and you will freeze during the winter cold fronts. It is so cold it knocks out the power plants.
In the early part of dang near ever summer we get these huge thunderstorms that have so much lightening it is like artillery barrages and dump hailstone the size of tennis balls. My truck just got busted up by the latest one here in Dallas. The damage was so widespread it took two and a half weeks just to get to an estimator. I can't get into a body shop till September. They are all full.
We got killer bees, anthrax in everything from the vegetable gardens to the deer, tornadoes, floods and gigantic wildfires that burn down entire counties,
There are so many rattlesnakes that Texas doesn't require a license to just kill`em and I think it is ten bucks for the massive rattlesnake hunts. It is still ok to stomp them to death when they come up in your front yard.
The ones going to those snake hunts are something else. Here in Texas it is classified as "recreation." No joke. No traps allowed, gotta use your hands and a stick.
Also there are coral snakes and 10 kinds of pit vipers, including the copperhead, cottonmouth plus eight rattlesnake species. Piranha in some lakes too. World record alligators in the rivers as well. Makes for some interesting fishing trips.
Then there are the feral hogs all over the place. No season. No limit. Standard hunting license and you are good to go after the 300 pounders. Just watch out for the packs of coyotes that run wild day and night.
Mountain lions are pretty much everywhere, including the suburbs here in Dallas. They had to shoot one in downtown El Paso last year. About five years ago one was spotted in a downtown Dallas parking garage! Damn things will hop your backyard fence and chow down on your dogs in a blink of an eye.
Then there are the Texans themselves. Wow! The only folks I know that call their AR-15's "pellet guns." Dallas county has so many people doing concealed carry I don't even have to anymore. Darned if they are not just everywhere. And some are toting iron that makes a .45 look like a 22.
Yea, folks would not like it here. They should not even think about showing up in Texas, it's just awful.
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“Texas is great for business but it sucks to be an employee for one of those businesses...”
It sucks even worse to be unemployed. Tried it both ways, have the T-shirt. Or as they say, “Even bad sex is better than no sex”.