Texas ignorance (Houston, Dallas, Galveston: house, most dangerous, horses)

[Lakewooder]

Gretchen I don't think you would have any problems in most of Texas. Especially the big cities.

[Gretchen_SDCA]

Originally Posted by Lakewooder

Gretchen I don't think you would have any problems in most of Texas. Especially the big cities.

Hi:

Thanks! I agree with you - the some parts of the cities are more progressive. I am not looking to move - just lurking on this forum (to the annoyance of my dear TexReb lol), since I do travel to TX a fair amount for business.

[TexasReb]

Originally Posted by Gretchen_SDCA

Hi:

Thanks! I agree with you - the some parts of the cities are more progressive. I am not looking to move - just lurking on this forum (to the annoyance of my dear TexReb lol),

LOL Good shot!

[hupbrepis]

texas has 21 million people and is 261,797 sq mi big.
you got all kinds of things here


such as:

[CHRISTIAN_COWBOY24]

Originally Posted by lonestar2007

Just curious, were you born and bred in Texas?

Yes I was. I was born in Bowie Texas in 1965.

[Cornwell]

Whats funny is.. I live right be kemah... and we have like poser red necks.... Upper middle class kids that try to kinda imitate the stereotype somewhat. My family in dallas is alot more cowboy then we are in houston. And Ive been out to smaller towns like sourlake with my friends to visit their family... and ive seen some redneck inbreeds haha

[lonestar2007]

Originally Posted by CHRISTIAN_COWBOY24

Yes I was. I was born in Bowie Texas in 1965.

I appreciate your reply, although I must admit, it does leave me somewhat baffled. You say you were born here and lived most of your life here, yet you don't recognize people who live in cities such as Dallas and Houston as being every bit as much Texan as you. The comment of yours, that if you lived in Dallas or Houston you never got to see Texas anyway, not the real Texas, is overly presumptuous. Well, sorry to burst your bubble, but Dallas, Houston and San Antonio are just as much the real Texas as Holliday. As a previous poster so aptly stated, along with the collection of various picturs, Texas is a lot of things.

I've lived in Dallas, Conroe (outside of Houston), small towns all over east Texas, Arlington and Burleson. I see you have a caution light in your town along with a Dairy Queen. I've lived in towns that did not have a traffic signal of any sorts in them. One town I lived in did not have a traffic signal nor a Dairy Queen, but wasn't considered all that small (after all, we did have a City Cafe on Main street) when you thought of it in comparison with some of the neighboring towns, one of which was named Bugtussle and had a population under 10.

One of my best friends grew up outside of Wichita Falls and lived in Wichita Falls for most of his life. He now resides in San Antonio and loves it there. The way I understand it, you wouldn't consider him to be Texan. Well, I've just got to smile at that one. With your line of reasoning, when my friend ran into Tommy Lee Jones the one day in a restaurant in San Antonio, one could have informed the two of them that neither one was a Texan since they were in San Antonio. Tommy Lee Jones has a ranch just outside of San Antonio which should tell you just how close country is to city.

The remark you made that Dallas, Houston, San Antonio and New York City were no different from each other or any other big city, tells me you have never been to any of these places, otherwise you'd know how false this statement truly is. You shouldn't compare apples to oranges if you don't have knowledge of either of them in the first place.

I haven't quite figured out what you are implying with the photo of your town's downtown profile, but I will assume you believe this is the 'real' Texas. I would say your town is typical of small towns all over Texas, just different landscape. As far as the DQ's go, just because one DQ serves good food, doesn't necessarily mean they all do. I've had good food at them and bad food at them, I'd say a lot depends on the cook, wouldn't you? I believe the old saying you can't judge a book by it's cover might apply here.

I come from a long line of Texans, generation after generation, yet my family consists of city folks, farmers and ranchers alike, and guess what? They're all Texans!

I grew up on a horse, but I sure wouldn't say that makes me a cowgirl. I can spot a good horse, regardless if it is papered or not, whereas I've seen some self proclaimed cowboys and cowgirls get one put over them real good by simply not being able to judge a horse on it's own merits, but getting snookered by it's papers. I grew up in a world where a cowboy didn't have to tell you he was a cowboy. If he was a cowboy, you already knew it, no words were exchanged to that effect. This same philosophy applies to Christians. A Christian doesn't have to tell people they are a Christain, the same goes without saying.

I will say one good lesson I've learned in life is this: If you're having dealings with a person and they tell you "I won't cheat you, I'm a good Christian", you'd better run like h*ll, because if you're not plenty smart and watching, you're fixing to get took!

[CHRISTIAN_COWBOY24]

Lonestar2007 I sure didn't mean to get ya upset or nothing like that, I been to them big citys, I been to Dallas/Ft worth Houston San Antonio and Lubock, all I ever saw was too much traffic, too much people, a bunch of concrete and steel, and no real safe place to ride your horse without fear of being hit by a speeding car, one big thing I don't like about big citys is when you speak to people on the street they won't speak back back to you, 99% of the time people will act like they didn't hear ya, and scurry away, as far as on the roads aound them citys everyone wants to drive like their in a race, why are big city people always in such a hurry? why don't everyone slow down and enjoy life a little?

Maybe you see Texas in them citys, but I never could, people in Texas will talk to strangers, city people won't, not even in Texas citys, they need to tear down some of them big tall buildings in Dallas and Houston and teach the people to speak to each other and not act so much like city folk, then it will start looking like Texas again.

[Gretchen_SDCA]

Originally Posted by CHRISTIAN_COWBOY24

Lonestar2007 I sure didn't mean to get ya upset or nothing like that, I been to them big citys, I been to Dallas/Ft worth Houston San Antonio and Lubock, all I ever saw was too much traffic, too much people, a bunch of concrete and steel, and no real safe place to ride your horse without fear of being hit by a speeding car, one big thing I don't like about big citys is when you speak to people on the street they won't speak back back to you, 99% of the time people will act like they didn't hear ya, and scurry away, as far as on the roads aound them citys everyone wants to drive like their in a race, why are big city people always in such a hurry? why don't everyone slow down and enjoy life a little?

Maybe you see Texas in them citys, but I never could, people in Texas will talk to strangers, city people won't, not even in Texas citys, they need to tear down some of them big tall buildings in Dallas and Houston and teach the people to speak to each other and not act so much like city folk, then it will start looking like Texas again.

Sorry, but I've got to ask - are your for real?? Lonestar, I think he's pulling your leg.

[love roses]

I lived in Houston and now in the Austin area, and that's not really true. And imo, if someone does act like that in one of those cities, then they probably aren't natives of Texas anyway.