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08-06-2008, 01:48 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Baltimore
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Why I Left Texas?
Just curious as to why folks have left Texas? I would be interested in the rationale......Thanks in advance....
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08-06-2008, 02:50 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Hutto, Tx
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We left Texas for 6 years and then came back  We only did it for a change of scene, just doing some youthful exploring. |
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08-06-2008, 03:32 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Down a tree-lined country road in Texas
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For my husbands job advancement. We do however, look forward to returning eventually!
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08-06-2008, 06:34 PM
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Junior Member
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Join Date: Aug 2008
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I would definitely get out of this place....I feel so miserable here.....Its always so hot, if it weren't for my husband bein stationed here, we would've been gone long time...  |
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08-06-2008, 07:03 PM
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Senior Member
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Longview, TX
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I left for 5 yrs. because of my husband's training. He finished and now we're back!  |
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08-06-2008, 07:11 PM
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Fall is here!!
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Join Date: May 2006
Location: The Great Southwest
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Quote:
Originally Posted by jonjj
Just curious as to why folks have left Texas? I would be interested in the rationale......Thanks in advance....
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As a native West Texan, leaving Texas was one of the hardest decisions I ever made, but I left last year...and I will have been here in southern New Mexico a year this coming Monday.
If I ever come back to Texas, it will be to WT once again, but in Alpine/Fort Davis/Marfa.....mountains are a must, and I don't plan to ever live where I cannot see them again.
I love to ski during the winter and see mountains every day, and that isn't possible in TX.
TX is just plain HOT, and I have gotten really, really sick of the hot weather after a lifetime (55 years) of it!
I am only as close to Texas as I am because I still have to check on elderly parents and such. It's a lot easier at 400 miles than it would have been at 800+ miles.
It's hot where I am, but it is usually cooler than WT, and the nights always cool off, much more than even WT ever did. It's also a lot drier.
I'd shoot myself before I'd live any farther east than the Alpine area now.
The climate of three-fourths of the great state of Texas just plain sucks as far as I'm concerned.
What is great about Texas is that it has something to offer everybody..anything from desert/mountains to lush piney woods! Once my skiing days are over, I may well return to WT....it does tend to call me home some days, LOL!!
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08-06-2008, 07:13 PM
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Senior Member
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Join Date: Apr 2007
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I've been all over the world but the longest I was ever out of Texas was 26 days in Europe. I don't think I want to break that record.
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08-06-2008, 07:20 PM
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General Instigator
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Join Date: May 2007
Location: Rural Central Texas
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I left for work opportunities in my field and moved back as soon as my job permitted. Now I live in Texas and work around the country.
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08-06-2008, 07:47 PM
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it's a Texas thang..you wouldn't understand
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Over yonder, Texas
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i left for 3 years, because I was married (at the time) to a soldier who got stationed at Ft Stewart GA. i was homesick, lovesick for 3 years. couldn't get back to Texas quick enough. i literally kissed the ground as i made my first stop in my pickup truck over the Louisiana-Texas border. NEVER EVER repeating that mistake again (moving away from Texas, for love nor money)
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08-06-2008, 07:51 PM
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INFP, Good for Nothing Student
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: in my mind
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Texas native here. I have a house here and what's left of my family so I've stayed around despite wanting out of here for decades.
I am planning on moving in the next few years. Texas is hot, too darned hot for me to tolerate for much longer. There are other issues but mostly it's the climate.
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