Where in Texas have you lived? (Houston, Dallas: home, place to live, oil)

[Stephanie P]

Van Alstyne: (born & raised) Great small town. Love it!
Sherman: Okay, not too much to do back then.
Richardson: I have no comment.
El Paso: Was okay. Very hot, but low humidity. Mountains.
Marfa: Another great small town, low humidity, mountains, really friendly people.
Katy: Way too humid & hot, too much traffic, too many people.

[Ketabcha]

Sulphur Springs-born there
Fort Worth-twice
San Antonio
Abilene
Arlington
Denton-4 years in college

I liked them all and I love Texas! Yeehaw.

[doctorjef]

Where is Van Alstyne?

[Steel Man]

San Antonio - San Angelo - Abilene - San Antonio (retired from AF here).

Of course, I also lived in Okinawa, Japan, and Hawaii between the Texas stays.

[jabbit]

Originally Posted by doctorjef

The art museums in Fort Worth really are good. I like the Kimball and love the Amon Carter (Western art), but the Modern never made much impression on me. Maybe their collection has improved since the 1980s.

the modern currently has a mark bradford painting thats HUGE and that i totally respect, admire and am completely enamored by:

this doesnt do it justice... only pic i could find of it in the FW mod environment but you can get an idea, it looks way better in person...




It also has that william kentridge exhibition....
matthew bourbon reviews william kentridge: Review: William Kentridge: Five Themes – Art & Seek – A service from KERA for North Texas

and then there is phillip haas across the street:
Philip Haas - Kimbell Art Museum

intense man. fort worth is the place to be for art during this time of 2009. something like this, this combo, doesnt come along often.

dallas is usually ahead of the curve in terms of "art scene" in regards to dfw, b/c of the amount of independent galleries ( deep ellum and the design destrict) but this time of the year fort worth has some action going on.

[WillysB]

San Antonio - born (left country)
Fort Worth - return to U.S., 2nd grade
Abilene - public schools
Pasadena - young adult
Houston - many, many years
Dallas - a while
Central Texas - retirement age

[TT Dave]

Abilene-(born here)
McCamey
Lubbock-went to Texas Tech
Midland
San Angelo

My family moved away from my hometown of Abilene when I was about 3 years old to McCamey. McCamey is a small town about 50 miles south of Odessa (my dad took a job transfer there). We then moved back to Abilene when I was about 8 years old where I lived until I went to college in Lubbock, so I mostly grew up in Abilene. After college, I lived in Midland for a little while (got a job out there) and then lived in San Angelo for a while (got a job down there). Finally I moved back to Abilene in 1994 (got a better job), and I'm still here. I would say I like Abilene and San Angelo the most overall. I like cities of about that size (about 100,000 in pop). I liked Lubbock a lot too even though it is twice that size. Midland was a nice town too in that 100,000 pop. range but I didn't like it as much there. McCamey was a desert hell-hole but the people there were very nice (would not live there again though-too small and too remote)

[The Gribbler]

Born in Longview
Gladewater
Waskom
Killeen
Waskom
Ennis
Denton
Dallas
Ferris
Carrollton
Cedar Hill

Been here my whole life but hope to move out of state just to get a little bit of a different perspective. Love the West Coast, whether it be sunny San Diego or rainy Seattle. I'd even like to maybe spend a few years in British Columbia.

Hope to probably retire in Hill Country though (Wimberley/Dripping Springs).

[An0nym0us88]

Nacogdoches (2 years, born)
Tyler (2 years)
North Austin (8 months)
Bellaire (2 years)
Sugar Land (3 years)
Tyler (12 years)
Nacogdoches (current, University)

[desertsun41]

Shepherd ..... on a family members farm

New Caney .... next to a large Equestrian facility and man did I love that.

Kemah ....... I can walk to the famous Boardwalk and I love it more then I can say here. I can walk to the Gulf, I live 15 steps from the Bayou with all the wildlife at my window view. I smell the Gulf breezes all day and night. I dont even need a car to get to at least 25 places to eat which include about 15 top notch restaurants. Several nights each week we just sit on the boardwalk and watch the boats coming in from a days fishing or recreation.

All this in exactly 12 months

Though last month my company moved from Galveston to Houston's Galleria area I will commute it because I dont want to leave here.