Why are Texas people so proud? (Houston, Dallas: versus, shop, cabin)

[Houston3]

Originally Posted by orbius

Pride cometh before the fall. The problem with pride is that it allows you to overlook massive problems right in your back yard.
1. Worst educational standards this side of Mississppii
2. Absolutely 0 environmental standards
3. Largest prison population of any state
4. Has most children without health insurance in country
5. Drugs pouring across the border
6. One of the highest poverty rates in country

Despite all this many Texans and the Politicians here dont get embarassed by being a backwards state. They see no role for the government in taking some of the brutality out of working families life.
They simply dont see the current state of their citizenry as something to be concerned about.

An educated person can obviously see the mentality of the politicians and many of those who they represent is in fact causing things to be far worse than it has to be. But they are too ignorant and blind to see their own complicity in the faults of this state.

At some point I think decent educated people have to ask themselves if this type of cycle of ignorance, and brutality towards average citizens is something they really want to be a part of.

Myself I can committed to moving out of this state fairly soon.

"1. Worst educational standards this side of Mississppii"


Did you mean Mississippi ?

[Canine*Castle]

Originally Posted by doctorjef

Houston3, haven't you heard that this is a public forum and not a classroom!! Oh, actually that was over on the KKK in Vidor thread, but I'm sure the admonition was meant to be generally applicable.

The point is if someone is complaining about Texas having the "worst educational system this side of the Mississippi," he or she should be able to use grammar well and not have so many errors in a short post. Please see my post #64. I asked him where he attended school, but he did not answer. I'm really curious. If the only error were the spelling of Mississippi, it wouldn't have been so terribly sad. I suppose we could consider that a typo albeit it would be stretching it a bit.

[Canine*Castle]

Yes, I understood, doctor. I chose to post what I posted anyway.

[WillysB]

Does the forum have an open season to compete for a moderator gig?

And airbus, you can see all that pathos in Texas in the hordes pushing the northern borders to escape. Look out Oklahoma. So intense Texas has to keep expanding its freeways to handle the traffic. Seems at some point all those pathetic bassackwards citizens yearning to escape would just run out of gas.

[JJG]

The fact that Texans treat their own state more like it's (still.... and maybe one day could be again...) an independent nation and other states don't is just one more thing that makes the state what it is.

Why you have to question it, I don't know. But it is what it is......


It's just like how Americans say "soccer" instead of "football". I know we have our own football but we could have called soccer football just like everyone else...... and yet we didn't. Now how many born and raised Americans ask that question?
How many care?


See what I mean?

[RDawg]

So I guess mods take themselves seriously around here.

[Cupcake77]

Originally Posted by Lovely95

Thank you! That is exactly what I was saying before. Other states have no idea how day and night I have to deal with family that won't visit me or speak to me because of where I am from. So I just say, well I am happy and that is all that matters. But people just cannot comprehend that there are people happy in Texas. That is what it is. They can't stand that some people are doing exceptionally well and love so they have to be negative. Most of the time Texans aren't the ones who start it. How would you feel if someone came to your house and told you it wasn't great and that your life was no good?

Thats what I was saying in my previous post. The other night I just got an offer from a friend of mine in Pennsylvania who said he would sell me 8 acres of his land for 100k and help me get a job at his company. I have to say I am tempted and giving it serious thought. Mainly to get everyone off my back about moving to Dallas and I am getting tired of the jokes.

[TexasHorseLady]

Originally Posted by Cupcake77

Thats what I was saying in my previous post. The other night I just got an offer from a friend of mine in Pennsylvania who said he would sell me 8 acres of his land for 100k and help me get a job at his company. I have to say I am tempted and giving it serious thought. Mainly to get everyone off my back about moving to Dallas and I am getting tired of the jokes.

Wow. You'd really consider this? You'd give people who give you a lot of grief (it'd have to be a lot to be the main reason that you'd uproot and move halfway across the country, right?) this much power over how you live your life? People who actually don't have a clue about the state, it would also seem, at that?

If you're truly unhappy here otherwise, by all means, go elsewhere - life's too short, and Texas isn't for everybody. But the people you described in your previous post? Their behavior says a whole lot more about them than it does about you or about Texas.

[Cupcake77]

Originally Posted by TexasHorseLady

Wow. You'd really consider this? You'd give people who give you a lot of grief (it'd have to be a lot to be the main reason that you'd uproot and move halfway across the country, right?) this much power over how you live your life? People who actually don't have a clue about the state, it would also seem, at that?

If you're truly unhappy here otherwise, by all means, go elsewhere - life's too short, and Texas isn't for everybody. But the people you described in your previous post? Their behavior says a whole lot more about them than it does about you or about Texas.

well one thing makes me unhappy in texas and this doesn't bother most people here. But for me it's the highways. I simply am terrified to drive on them. Where I live that is the ONLY way to get anywhere. Just to go to the store I have to get on the highway and fight for my life just to buy some milk.

I know a lot of people here think I am silly and have some phobias, but I can't help it. So that's the main reason I would want to leave. But I don't think PA is much better.

[TexasHorseLady]

Yeah, Pennsylvania has highways, as I recall.