Where in Texas have you lived? (Houston, Dallas: dorm, movies, living)

[doctorjef]

Sorry, this isn't on topic, but the fact is that just across the border from El Paso, Ciudad Juarez has been ruined by the same drug gangs that are beseiging Mexico generally. The violence has spilled over into the US elsewhere and could well do so in El Paso. In Texas, Laredo is seriously afflicted with it.

[carolinajack]

Originally Posted by doctorjef

I thought it might be interesting to see where in Texas people have lived and what places they liked best, least, and any other observations they might care to make. Here's my list:

Corpus Christi - born there and lived there again later as a kid. I love the harbour and think the place has some real charm and nice winter temps, even though there's not a whole lot there and it's kind of off the beaten path.

Dallas - as a young kid, and then spent time over there as a young adult when I lived in Fort Worth. I hate the freeways!

Lubbock - lived there in high school and started college at Tech. I really didn't appreciate the place and couldn't wait to move away. Still, I have a lot of meaningful memories from the place.

Austin - lived there while finishing university and then again for another 19 years for my 30s and 40s. It's the one place in Texas I'd ever choose to live probably, but I doubt I'll return there.

Fort Worth - lived there in graduate school and then again for a couple of years a few years later. Never really cared for the place -- rather like a big Lubbock.

Mineral Wells - don't ask! Lived there for about three months and hated it, though its little geographic setting, the Palo Pinto "Mountains", is surprisngly pretty. The place is chronically almost a ghost town since the US Army closed Fort Wolters after the Viet Nam war.

Beaumont - lived there for just over a year. It's an interesting part of the state, but didn't really feel like Texas to me. Not much to do there. The country and cajun cooking there are outstanding.

Oh yeah, almost forgot -- also on a ranch in Denton County, about five miles west of the town of Justin, for around six months when I was a kid. I started first grade there in a 19th Century schoolhouse. Interesting, but not a fun place for a kid, as there was no one around to play with.

Highland park
Arlington
Edinburg

[doctorjef]

I know that Highland Park and University Park are both incorporated cities, but it's hard for me not to think of them simply as Dallas.

[Randaleese]

Rusk
Jacksonville
Tyler
Palestine
Bryan/College Station
Waco
Willis
Huntsville
Ingleside
Aransas Pass
Fairfield
Corsicana
Alto

[case44]

I've lived in Euless (until age 4), and also Grand Prairie, Far North Dallas, and now, Lewisville. I've never left the state (thank goodness).

Originally Posted by doctorjef

I know that Highland Park and University Park are both incorporated cities, but it's hard for me not to think of them simply as Dallas.

They are completely surrounded by the Dallas city limits. Believe it or not, they are separate.

[bigd8200]

Houston and San Antonio.

[catman]

Fort Worth, Dallas, and Denton. I lived in Fort Worth first, then Dallas, then Denton, and back to Fort Worth. I used to prefer Denton becuase it was small and had its own character, but it has gotten so big with its own traffic problems that one might as well live in Fort Worth. I prefer Fort Worth to Dallas.

[High_Plains_Retired]

Lufkin
Houston
Clute
Liberty
Velasco (incorporated by Freeport)
Lufkin
Bovina (job then took me to places not a subject of this thread for 30 years.

Muleshoe
Hale County, Texas (for retirement)

[doctorjef]

It's interesting to see some of the geographical diversity of moves people have made in Texas. Like from Lufkin and Freeport to Bovina and Muleshoe. It's my impression that people can spend so much more of their lives living in a wide range of places in the state, whereas in smaller states you'd often be moving out of state rather than within the state. I guess I shouldn't be surprised, since I've lived in the Panhandle/South Plains, the North Texas DFW Metroplex, Central Texas, South Coastal Texas, and Southeast Texas. It seems to be a more common pattern than I had appreciated.

[jmmcnally]

Sulphur Springs
Morgan Mill
Stephenville
Mt. Vernon