Perception of Lubbock (San Antonio, Lufkin, Canyon: apartments, crime rate, transfer)

[bresilhac]

BS

The feed lot is on the very SE side of town, (industrial area) right next to Hwy 84 which does smell awful, but you didn't smell it all the way through town. Very rarely can you smell the feedlot from anywhere in town unless you are driving right by it.

BS? I was right smack in the center of town outside a restaurant and I know what I smelled. Regardless of where the stupid feedlot is located.

[case44]

Originally Posted by shoe01

That happens several days out of the year. The feedlot east of town causes that. The worst thing about the area imo.

Can't they just relocate the lot to Post?? Or maybe Abernathy?

[WestTx]

Originally Posted by bresilhac

BS

The feed lot is on the very SE side of town, (industrial area) right next to Hwy 84 which does smell awful, but you didn't smell it all the way through town. Very rarely can you smell the feedlot from anywhere in town unless you are driving right by it.

BS? I was right smack in the center of town outside a restaurant and I know what I smelled. Regardless of where the stupid feedlot is located.

Well, I can't discount your sense of smell. On rare occasions when the wind blows just right, you can smell the feed lot in town. But, to say the entire city smells like crap is painting with a really big brush.

[case44]

Originally Posted by GoingHome2TX

My own opinion of Lubbock is that it is a nice little city, just plagued by the fact that it is located in the middle of a bunch of nothing. The wind blows and you get dirty/dusty.

I still think of it as a city stuck in the dead center of a bunch of cotton fields with no geographical diversity to it other than horizon as far as one can see in any direction. While this does help with our economy, I can not personally deal with the scenery.

If I were to educate myself further than my current status, I would probably apply at Tech as a student based on several various factors, so I do rate their school system highly. My problem just boils back to the fact of location. I can not personally see myself living in the area long enough to earn an education at her schools.

Having said that, I would still rather live in Lubbock than anywhere outside of the borders of Texas. So don't hold my own personal preference for rolling hills, mesquite and live oak trees against me for hating Lubbock altogether, because I can still think of many worse places to live.

I'm sorry for your situation if I've read you correctly. But let's look at the bright side: You still live in Texas. Besides, Lubbock's location, believe it or not, is an advantage, not an albatross. I'm a visionary and a dreamer. It's just too bad I'm not a developer right now, because Lubbock is the first place I'd go. I envision Lubbock as a larger area with new ideas and fresh emotion. Yes, I know..... there are folks who will think I'm absolutely crazy, but the place has potential. You can make a nowhere into a somewhere. Dust notwithstanding, there's still 300 days of sunshine every year. This city is in my top five if I should leave the D/FW area one day for different pastures. Having visited Lubbock on a scant few occasions, I'm telling you, it has something. No, it's not perfect; no city is. The city needs a zoo. It needs landscaping. Downtown needs something (actually, several somethings). I don't think about what others have said about its citizens because I've never had any problems. I believe it can be much more than it is right now, but you've got more to appreciate than you think. And, you know, Lubbock is not such a bad place.

You should be proud to be Texan!

[shoe01]

Here are a few construction projects going up around town:
On the rise: Lubbock's commercial sector is on a tear | BUSINESS EDITOR

[case44]

Originally Posted by shoe01

Here are a few construction projects going up around town:
On the rise: Lubbock's commercial sector is on a tear | BUSINESS EDITOR

Good article, shoe. That 15-story hotel will rival the NTS Tower for the city's tallest structure. The Lubbock Business Park is rising up fast.

[High_Plains_Retired]

Originally Posted by Texas Plains

I would like to hear everyone's opinions and questions about Lubbock, even if you have never been there. I think this would help alieviate many of the misperceptions and bad rap Lubbock has been getting lately. All comments will be apperciated greatly!

First I should say that my opinion of Lubbock is based on having lived there in the 1980s. I plan to retire in the Lubbock area as early as this year. Other towns in Texas where I have lived include Houston and Lufkin as well as numerous other smaller Texas eastern, southeastern and western towns. I've also lived and worked in Washington D.C., New Orleans, and in Albuquerque. As well, I have worked in South America and in north Africa.

I'll not insult Lubbock by trying to compare it with the moldly dishrag smells of Houston and New Orleans, which I can only describe as 'matching armpits". D.C. is simply D.C. which, except for its great Federal libraries and museums, lacks any definable character unless you are a lawyer, a politician or a lobbiest. Albuquerque was once a great city in years past but is now being overun by retiring carpetbaggers with more money than brains.

But back to the subject of Lubbock. At the moment I guess what I like best about this dusty west Texas cotonpatch town, at least according to some in this thread, is that the jerks are driving on through and the good people are staying.

[case44]

Now let's remember this also, folks. If you listened carefully to the song that Mac Davis wrote and recorded many years ago, entitled "Texas In My Rear View Mirror", he sings the first few verses about leaving Lubbock, but the last verse was about coming back. You see, leaving the area was not what his subject at hand thought it was, so he changed his mind, and he decided this was where he wanted and needed to be after all. And then you remember these last words in the song, the words that tell us he wants to be buried in Lubbock, Texas....in his jeans.

Words to remember.....

[Back2TX]

Originally Posted by High_Plains_Retired

But back to the subject of Lubbock. At the moment I guess what I like best about this dusty west Texas cotonpatch town, at least according to some in this thread, is that the jerks are driving on through and the good people are staying.

Well said, High Plains! I don't see what the fuss is about Lubbock being a conservative town. (as other posts have said) Is that such a bad thing? Having your kids grow up in a town like that?
And as far as scenery goes... you can travel if you want lots of trees. OR plant them and have your own beautiful garden like my parents did and still do have. Their yard looks like a yard you would find in San Antonio (only without fire ant mounds). They have nice big oak trees, golf-like green grass, lots of flowers, etc. You can have a yard like that, but you have to water it..... unlike the more humid places in TX. Just get a sprinkler system and then you are set. There really are some beautiful neighborhoods in Lubbock.
Now... if you want a great lake to go boating in... you may have a problem there. Yes, there's Buffalo Lake and a lake in Ransom Canyon.... but not a big public lake. (There's a fee to enter Buffalo Lake.)
Lubbock has a nice airport, public parks with great playgrounds, Texas Tech, musicals and concerts, etc. The climate there is wonderful! The dust storms do happen, but VERY rarely. It can get windy, but you get used to it. I lived there for 17 yrs and loved Lubbock.
People who have never lived in Lubbock have no idea what a great town it is. They don't have much to compare with if it's just looks. You have to get to know the town to appreciate it. Scenery isn't everything. As the saying goes.... you can't judge a book by it's cover. I didn't think much of Lubbock at first. We had to move there when I was a kid (due to a job transfer)... but after a few years... I grew to love and appreciate Lubbock for what it is.

[Back2TX]

By-the-way.... the feedlot smell happens MAYBE 2-4 times a year. It is never a problem unless the wind switches and blows in from the NE. Then you get the smell, otherwise... it's pleasant. Like I said in my previous post... passerbyers can have a very shallow opinion of Lubbock without really knowing how great of a town it truely is.