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What’s the best part of Texas? What’s the worst part?
I always hated the DFW metroplex. My folks live in Lubbock - can’t say I love it.
I liked the wide open spaces of west Texas before they filled it up with those eye sore white windmills.
The country around Leakey is nice enough.
I have heard the forests of east Texas are pretty.
Food is good pretty much everywhere in Texas, though. I’d probably weigh 50 lbs more if I lived there.
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We don’t need any more skinny liberals.
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Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla!
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Good thing he ain't skinny.
2 Kings 2:23-24
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Any Texans here?
Nah - - all from TN.
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LOL not trying to troll. My family is all in Texas. About six or seven generations buried there. Not ashamed of it. I like the area out by Fort Davis quite a bit.
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West Texas stinks, literally, too many oil wells. South Texas is basically North Mexico. North Texas is nothing but dust and tumbleweeds. East Texas has humidity and Cajuns. Central Texas is full of Californians.
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The Hill Country is my favorite part of Texas.....hunt deer, turkey and pigs all on the same 50 acre plot. Beaumont/Port Arthur area probably the least favorite.......refineries.....
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Central Texas I’d say, I live at the edge of the piney woods northwest of Houston. Growing fast here.
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South Texas for hunting. Job on the gulf coast allowed me to fish the Galveston area. Hasbeen
hasbeen (Better a has been than a never was!)
NRA Patron member Try to live your life where the preacher doesn't have to lie at your funeral
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Texan. A Mexican on his way to Oklahoma
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Born and jerked up in east Texas about halfway between Dallas and Houston. Now if you want to know my "favorite" part, that would be east Texas, where I was raised. I've had experiences all over Texas. From Dalhart to Brownsville and El Paso to Texarkana. Had some folks fly in to Shreveport, LA from New York state. Headed back to east Texas on IH20, we passed a HUGE "Welcome To Texas!" sign! He begins to look around at the scenery. I finally asked, "Are you expecting rocks, sagebrush and cactus?" "Yes." he said with a blank look on his face. "About another 300 miles west on this highway and there will be plenty."
I've always been amazed at the out of staters who think Texas should look like Arizona!
At this moment, I live in southwestern Oklahoma. Honestly? If you didn't cross Red River, you would never know you left TX. Red clay, elm trees and mesquite....and flat.
"The sun has riz and the sun has set ...and here we is, in Texas yet!"
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It's filling up fast,not much open country left here on the Coastal Bend.
" It ain't dead.As long as there's one cowboy taking care of one cow,it ain't dead ! " Monte Walsh
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The best part is after you leave Texas and cross I to another state.
Only issue is everything will seem smaller, more normal sized.
Everything seems bigger in Texas.....to Texans at least.
The last time that bear ate a lawyer he had the runs for 33 days!
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Full up with out of staters and border jumpers
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I was born there. Do not recognize the place or the people. My schools are Mexican or Black, no more white. Traffic is hell. Austin is San Fransicko. Visited a few months ago. Did not die in Austin or Houston highways. DFW be damned. Vowed never to return ever. I did want to see Dealy Plaza though. The Alamo is no longer a quiet shrine to incomparable heroes. It's a grotesque curiosity, mostly gift shop, slated to be renovated into a more ghastly theme park with holograms and "depictions." No more pretty Mexican girls along the river walk; nothing but fatsos now. And the filthy street bums are new. Small town America is dead everywhere though. But what I remembered so fondly is raped and ruined beyond recognition. The border towns used to be so quaint and intriguing and wonderfully multi cultural. And safe. Texas offers a lot of unfettered opportunity though, lower taxes and zippo regulations. Property taxes are waived when you turn 65 - I believe that's so. That's a huge plus. No public land to hunt on. It is big enough to find some sleepy acreage around dead little towns, of which there are several, if you don't need employment concentrated in the madhouse beehives. Better listen to an unjaded local, not me!
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It’s definitely changing not the same as it use to be.
Will Munny: It's a hell of a thing, killing a man. Take away all he's got and all he's ever gonna have.
The Schofield Kid: Yeah, well, I guess they had it coming.
Will Munny: We all got it coming, kid.
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Texan. A Mexican on his way to Oklahoma LOL, none of the Texans I know are going anywhere.
A wise man is frequently humbled.
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At least for the time being Texas remains a conservative trifecta... meaning that the Governor's office, the House and Senate are all RED. Actually, it's stronger after the last election. Maybe the type of people fleeing CA insanity, or maybe the border issue has strengthened conservatives. Texas isn't purple either. It's solid red. If we could get rid of Dallas, Austin and Houston, the RED would be so bright you could see it from outer space.
Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla!
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For those in The Hill Country…have you ever had anyone from somewhere else go: “hhhhhh…it sure is PHFFFFFLAT there”
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