Georgia vs. Texas (landscaping, quality of life, living)
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Well I obviously picked Georgia... I chose to live here afterall.
Ultimately I just like the environment. The hills and trees and of the Piedmont and easy access to the Gulf and the Atlantic is something I just can't get away from.
I know some parts of east Texas have some small hills and parts have many trees. For me it just isn't the same.
I would choose Georgia. It has more geographic diversity in my opinion ranging from ocean to mountains, more greenery and it's less remote in terms of driving access to other states. It also doesn't suffer from that annoying "oh look at us we're different mentality" that Texans love to foster.
Texas easily. More cities...more variety in landscape...more diversity.
Georgia has exactly 4 things I wish we had to some extent:
-Savannah. Don't get me wrong. I love Galveston, but it is comparatively small, and New Orleans is 4.5 hours away
-More respect for history and the environment. They love their trees and old buildings more than most Texans do. On top of that, the landscaping out there is far more clever. You'll see a larger variety of trees being planted. They won't cut down three pines and put one sorry looking oak in their place.
-Tulip poplars. A rare sight west of the Mississippi .
-The mountains. Yes, we have them in West Texas, but that does me no good here in the eastern part of the state.
As for everything else, I'm good. Give me Texas every day of the week and twice on Sunday.
For starters, the state has lots of large cities you can choose from, from Houston, to Dallas, to San Antonio, to Austin, and each of them have unique and interesting vibes. The state also has more diversity, and is more cosmopolitan/international; I mean, Georgia is no slouch, but Texas takes it a whole level above, being one of the few majority-minority states in the union. Texas also has the much larger, and more powerful economy; two of the top ten most powerful economies in the US are in Texas.
Texas also has more scenery; Georgia has mountains and ocean, but Texas has all that, AND more, featuring arid-desert landscapes, semi-arid steppe plains, the limestone aesthetic of the Hill Country, the thick pine forests of the Piney Woods, exotic subtropical swamps, forests, coastal plains, and beaches(the coastline ACTUALLY has some length to it, can't say the same for Georgia), and even the borderline tropical environments, filled with many neotropic fauna and flora that are rare north of Mexico.
For starters, the state has lots of large cities you can choose from, from Houston, to Dallas, to San Antonio, to Austin, and each of them have unique and interesting vibes. The state also has more diversity, and is more cosmopolitan/international; I mean, Georgia is no slouch, but Texas takes it a whole level above, being one of the few majority-minority states in the union. Texas also has the much larger, and more powerful economy; two of the top ten most powerful economies in the US are in Texas.
Texas also has more scenery; semi-arid steppe plains,
It's kind of a stretch calling this country "scenery".
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. Give me Texas every day of the week and twice on Sunday.
