If i become single thats where i am going. I like the hotter parts though. I lived in phoenix and las vegas and kentucky and liked the heat, but my wife hates it.
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If i become single thats where i am going. I like the hotter parts though. I lived in phoenix and las vegas and kentucky and liked the heat, but my wife hates it.
I'm not sure what the 'average' weather is supposed to be. Since we've been here it's much more mild than normal (as we're told). There almost wasn't a winter. We've been getting a lot of rain. Everything is really green in East Texas. The temperatures have been decent (at least I think so) and most of all our strawberries and blackberry bushes are producing like crazy. We've never had so much success in the garden before. The 'sandy loam' soil here is very prolific.
I hate Dallas, so I won't be much use for that area.
However I have considered moving to Texas/Oklahoma for work a couple times. Like JTR said, I am a CO native, and leaving would take a pretty serious motivator.
I know of a nice house, needs some repairs, on 10 acres with a tornado shelter, and several out buildings for sale outside of Lawton. (Shameless plug here, it's my wife's parents). We go back and forth on keeping it, but I just don't want the upkeep of an out of state place right now.
If Amendment 69 passes here in CO, I will be leaving.
Despite what others have said, I don't see Hillary as a "when she wins".
If it weren't for the weather I'd be a texan
I grew up near Galveston, lived in Plano for 8 years before I moved to Colorado. My brother (Whistler on this forum) and parents live in a small farm town East of Dallas.
Texas is not as conducive to an outdoor lifestyle as Colorado IMO. It's very hot and humid most of the year, and the mosquitoes will carry you off if they catch you outside at dusk. If you can get over those things, I think Texas is a pretty great place to live. The general mentality there is much farther right than Colorado, gun ownership is pervasive, there's lots of hunting and fishing to be had without having to travel far, and real estate is much cheaper to buy, though as you already discovered, the property taxes are higher.
If single-payer passes here, I will be packing up and moving the family back to Dallas, San Antonio, or somewhere in between.
Humidity, bugs and flat boring terrain ... other than that there's no reason not to move there.
Same here, but if we leave we're looking at Idaho, Wyoming or the Dakotas.Quote:
Originally Posted by Grant H.
One other little thing to keep in mind about Texas is that it's not nearly as conservative as people on both sides pretend it is.
Aside from the new gun laws that passed recently, gun rights in Colorado are (or at least were) better than Texas.
Also, the left is desperately trying to implement The Blueprint there (they're having a harder time than they had here in Colorado but they are winning some battles) so it is no carved in stone Bastian of liberty and at this point I'd say the chances of it following the leftward decline that has happened here at 40%. I'd also put our chances of reversing the leftward decline here at about 40%, so the deck is stacked against us a little bit but not completely (we'll know for sure this November).
^ Zund has some good points there. There are little liberal strongholds in Texas that should be avoided, unless you're hoping to change the demographics an inch at a time. Houston has turned blue over the last few years, and Austin has been a leftist shithole for a long while. The gun laws in CO are better, aside from the mag ban.
Humidity is a personal preference- I've lived in Ohio, Alaska, Arizona and Colorado...
In my personal experience- I didn't mind humidity as much, but when the temp is above 100, I get miserable REAL fast. Never could be outside long in Phoenix in the heat of the day (last year I lived there, 100 consecutive days with high above 100) I've also noticed that here the sun is brutal... probably the altitude and dry air- but when down in OK and TX, I find the sun not nearly as oppressive.
The bugs aren't going to have anything on Alaska, but nature doesn't try to poison you in AK (only spiders) And before you ask, Alaska is unfortunately out of the question... unless I go alone.
Wife is from Nebraska, so she knows about tornadoes (so did I when in Ohio, just not as common)- and would require we have or build a storm shelter.
County I'm leaning towards right now had 6 days in July that were 100 (barely), and 8 days in August that went above 100 (peaking at 105) in 2015.. in 2014 it was 2 days in July, and 4 days in August. Average temp in Aug is 93.
I was amused by the "crazy gun dealer" on the radio, and billboards advertising gun shops (not just gun shows) that were prolific...
I already decided that single payer would mean I AM moving... hell, just getting it on the ballot is an incentive that the voting public (and/or the corrupt politics) have completely lost touch with reality and just want "the party of free shit"
The issues with high water table, flooding and building a storm shelter are why the house on the hill was really appealing- 50-60' elevation above the pond, lots of slope to build a storm shelter that can drain (even install a drain in it, so it stays dry)
And I actually don't hunt, despite my gun related hobbies- never got started with it... I could see doing hog hunting for sure- and I've dreamt of Moose hunting in Alaska.
And you'd be welcome to come visit, Foxtrot... funny they'd name a horse Winter in a place that doesn't have one.