why do you live in texas? (Houston, Dallas: real estate, transplants, military)

[I LOVE NORTH CAROLINA]

Originally Posted by Steel Man

How many times have you said this, 3,764?

No 3,765 times now....I don't like it here

[Roma]

Originally Posted by I LOVE NORTH CAROLINA

Unfortunately I was born here. I cannot wait to leave. I don't like the weather nor do I care for the scenery especially in Houston.

I agree with the above statement. (Except, I wasn't born here though) . But I don't like the weather nor do I care for the scenery and I can't wait to leave.

[lonestar2007]

Originally Posted by arizona_chic

lonestar you have a lot of pride for your state =)
which area of texas do you live in?

Hi Arizona Chic,

I live in Johnson County just south of Fort Worth. I was born in Dallas but I've lived in East Texas, (Edgewood and Wills Point), and South Texas, (Conroe) and Northeast Texas (Depot), close to Paris.

It's becoming crowded where I am now, so I have been looking for some small acreage around Canton or Grand Saline in East Texas. I'm also looking a little further south, say Bosque County or maybe even further south. I love the Hill Country, but I don't know what happened, it has just escalated in price. I must have been sleeping!

Lilypad, I forgot to mention that the food we grow here is the BEST! I will not buy watermelons, peaches, cantaloupes, etc. grown anywhere but in Texas. You cannot beat a tomato grown in East Texas sand, a watermelon up from the valley and a peach from Parker County. When we were kids we used to have friends who lived out by Weatherford and we would go and eat peaches till we would almost burst. When we lived in Edgewood we would go over to our cousins place and help them pick their tomatoes that they would take to the Dallas Farmers Market. After we got them sorted, etc. we would get a salt shaker and sit on the back porch and eat to our heart's content. And talk about watermelons, our cousins in Emory always had a huge watermelon patch. We would go out in the field with a salt shaker, pick whichever ones we wanted to eat and throw them down on the ground to bust them open and just eat the hearts out of them. Sooo good!! We really wasn't as wasteful as it sounds, because we would feed the rest to the hogs. And you simply cannot beat a Pecos cantaloupe. All of our produce here seems to have so much more flavor, be it a yellow squash or an orange. We have dewberries that grow wild all along fence lines and when we were kids we would ride our horses all day, we would pack a lunch, but in the meantime we would stop and eat berries along the way. After the dewberries were gone, it was time for the blackberries to get ripe and we could always find plenty of those too.

Hey, I Love North Carolina, maybe you should venture out of Houston sometime. Texas is a big ole state. Depends on where you're looking and of course, if you have blinders on or not, but you can see some sights here in this state of ours. As far as the weather, I will concede you are in probably the worst possible area to live in although as I mentioned earlier, we all get our share of heat, you're just going to get a lot more humidity to go with it. Also, if you live inside Houston, you have to take that into account besides. Buildings, roads, etc. will make it even hotter. But don't kid yourself, it can get hot everywhere. I was in Illinois one year on Labor Day and I thought I'd melt it was so hot! To make it worse, there was absolutely no wind! At least, here in Texas, we usually have some wind or at least a breeze. It might be a hot one, but it's better than nothing! I love snow and when we do get some here in Texas we appreciate the beauty of it. I would like to be somewhere at times in an area where we would have a nice snowfall, but I do not want to live where the winters are harsh and it snows all the time. It doesn't take me long here to get tired of the cold if it lasts for too long. I guess there's no place that's perfect, if there was, everyone would want to be there, and that right there would put an end to it in a hurry.

[Lisa_from_Debary]

Both my parents were born and bred Texans, going back several generations...

I spent part of my life South of Fort Worth and part of my life near Boston...we moved back to Boston just in time for me to start high school and what a culture shock...

Texas has some wonderful things about it but the weather isn't one of those things...The summers were awful and the winter was just bad enough to cripple the town at times because they lacked the equipment to sand and salt the roads.

When I was going to college I went back to Boston for a few years...I felt very caught in between, not at home in either place really.

I finally moved to Florida in 2001 and I love it, I have no plans to ever leave here...It never gets as hot here as it does in Texas and of course we don't have the cold either. I love the rain we get in the afternoon in the summer, it stays green here all summer while Texas looks like something dead about to blow away.

I do miss the friendly easy Texas ways about things...the people are so nice and the men looking so nice in their Wranglers and cowboy boots...

I don't ever want to be further from the beach then I am right now, which is 45 minutes.

[arizona_chic]

sounds like texas life is pretty much wonderful, except for the heat ofcourse ;]

[mcdonald_ea]

Hey Lillypad,
Where in Texas do you live & why?
Confused....

[FarNorthDallas]

I was born and raised here as were my parents and grandparents and their parents - we go way back.

I sometimes wonder what it would be like to live in a place were kids can play outside in the summer time.

Also, when I was in grade school we would study that winter is when snow falls and you can make snowmen and go sled riding but I looked out my window and knew it wasn't my reality but we had to pretend it was. Winter equals snow. Right.

I sometimes wonder what it would be like in Sept. to be able to wear the fall back to school clothes you bought in August. Now they sit in your closet until November.

I wondered what it would be like to start school after Labor Day.

I wondered what it would be like to take a Sunday drive to the beach or mountains instead of to the new housing developments to walk through new open houses because there's nothing else to drive to.

I wondered what it would be like to have basements and not to have privacy fences.

Not saying I don't like Texas, but I wondered what it would be like to be in a more typical place.

[I LOVE NORTH CAROLINA]

[quote=lonestar2007;786031]

Hey, I Love North Carolina, maybe you should venture out of Houston sometime. Texas is a big ole state. Depends on where you're looking and of course, if you have blinders on or not, but you can see some sights here in this state of ours. As far as the weather, I will concede you are in probably the worst possible area to live in

I have been all over Texas and I didn't see anything that I like better than North Carolina or Tennessee.

[Cachetona]

I was born in Texas and I love it, I used to live in Houston, but hated the humidity,and now I moved to Forth Worth, Texas...and I love it!!

[person]

Because its cheaper and I can afford a house here.