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View Poll Results: Which Texas city is safer, Midland or Tyler?
Tyler, Texas 15 51.72%
Midland, Texas 14 48.28%
Voters: 29. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 10-19-2009, 02:16 PM
 
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I am a single mother of 2 year old and I currently live in Amarillo, Texas and am a student. I plan to transfer to, either, Tyler Junior College or Midland College to finish a Diagnostic Medical Sonographer's Associate Degree. These are the two closest accredited schools (besides in DFW, which I will not move to). I will have to live in said city for approximately 2 years. Any information on either city (Midland or Tyler) would be greatly appreciated. Which one is safest, cheaper? Which neighborhoods are safer? Or any other information you wish to include...tia
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Old 10-20-2009, 02:26 PM
 
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Tyler... no contest.
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Old 10-21-2009, 04:38 AM
 
Location: Upper East Side of Texas
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Lush green Tyler with rolling hills Vs. dry treeless flat wasteland of Midland?

Hmmm
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Old 10-21-2009, 09:24 AM
 
Location: Where I live.
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Lush green Tyler with rolling hills Vs. dry treeless flat wasteland of Midland?

Hmmm
All a matter of perspective. Not all of us want to live with lush wet green, trees lining the side of the road/overhead. Never mind the cloying high humidity all year long, especially in the summer, where it's like a sauna. Mold, allergens, et al.....pretty country, yes, but.......

To each his own.
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Old 10-21-2009, 01:49 PM
 
Location: Northeast Texas
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All a matter of perspective. Not all of us want to live with lush wet green, trees lining the side of the road/overhead. Never mind the cloying high humidity all year long, especially in the summer, where it's like a sauna. Mold, allergens, et al.....pretty country, yes, but.......

To each his own.
I could agree with you but green is beautiful. Who gives a crap about humidity. Aren't we in Texas anyway?
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Old 10-21-2009, 02:26 PM
 
Location: Where I live.
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I give a crap about humidity. I HATE it, and I won't live with it, period!! Not all of Texas is humid--West Texas and the Panhandle are dry by comparison.

You can have humidity and lush green....I like some green, but not East Texas-Louisiana green. It's just TOO much. Frizzy hair, constant sweating that never goes away, shirt sticking to your back, never feeling clean, constant headaches, tiredness...unless you spend all of your time in AC, which is the only way to stand it.

That's the great thing about Texas....it has something to offer everybody.
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Old 10-21-2009, 09:46 PM
 
Location: Upper East Side of Texas
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I give a crap about humidity. I HATE it, and I won't live with it, period!! Not all of Texas is humid--West Texas and the Panhandle are dry by comparison.

You can have humidity and lush green....I like some green, but not East Texas-Louisiana green. It's just TOO much. Frizzy hair, constant sweating that never goes away, shirt sticking to your back, never feeling clean, constant headaches, tiredness...unless you spend all of your time in AC, which is the only way to stand it.

That's the great thing about Texas....it has something to offer everybody.
Its actually been very pleasent here the past week or so. Now the rains are back though. Your assessment that Tyler & East Texas is always humid is not accurate at all. Most non-Texans aren't even aware there are trees & forests here, they just automatically picture a place like Midland or Odessa with cactus & cowboys.
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Old 10-22-2009, 08:52 AM
 
Location: Where I live.
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Its actually been very pleasent here the past week or so. Now the rains are back though. Your assessment that Tyler & East Texas is always humid is not accurate at all. Most non-Texans aren't even aware there are trees & forests here, they just automatically picture a place like Midland or Odessa with cactus & cowboys.
Again....all a matter of perspective. You are USED to the humidity. Does the humidity in ET ever drop below 35-40% at any time of the year? If so, when?

I spent 6 months working in MS and traveling to LA (the state)....the humidity was so heavy that I thouight I was going to smother. I took a shower before I went to work and one when I got home. I was in and out all day at a construction site, and I was grateful to get back inside to AC. I never acclimated, though you'd think I would after that length of time.

I came home through Tyler and Longview. Very beautiful country--as long as the AC was running and the windows up. I spent nights in both places coming and going.

We had family that lived in ET for a very short period of time in the 1970s, so we went there for Thanksgiving one year. I left Lubbock after class, drove 225 miles home, parked my car at my parents' place in West Texas, and slept in the backseat while Daddy drove to ET.

They woke me up when we got there around 2am (Jasper).....and I couldn't believe that we were still in Texas. It felt like a foreign country, just as those who are used to ET find WT so stark!

And yes, outsiders do often have this perception of Texas as nothing but desert. They watch too many old Hollywood movies.

They don't realize that we have everything from coast to mountains to piney woods.
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Old 10-22-2009, 12:00 PM
 
Location: Plano, TX
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I lived in Tyler for six months, and travel to Midland several times a year for business. Both towns are fine. If you don't care for the humidity, Midland is a good place. If you can tolerate the humidity, Tyler is as good. It is all a matter of personal preference.
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Old 10-25-2009, 02:56 AM
 
Location: Upper East Side of Texas
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Again....all a matter of perspective. You are USED to the humidity. Does the humidity in ET ever drop below 35-40% at any time of the year? If so, when?
So much for Midland not being humid. Right now at 3:45 am its sitting at 59 degrees with 72% humidity. In Tyler its a slightly cooler 55 degrees with 76% humidity.

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