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Old 10-03-2012, 07:58 AM
 
Location: West Texas
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It depends on your age, your job skills, your economic status, and your education. Without those it's hard to accurately steer you in the potentially right direction.

I live in San Angelo. I'm retired from the Navy, and still work in town. Some things about San Angelo:

City Symphony
Civic Theater
Angelo State University (part of Texas Tech circuit)
Howard College
Goodfellow Air Force Base
Mall (major stores include Sears, JC Penney, Dilliards)
Lake Nasworthy
Concho River
Major stores (SuperWalmart (x2), Sams, Lowes, Best Buy, HEB)
Three local high schools (for football if interested)
Two hospitals (many smaller clinic branches)

All with a population of only 90,000!! No interstate running through to bring unwanted traffic, but it also makes it a little longer trip to the major cities. Abilene is only 90 mins away in a nice drive. Whites are still the slight majority, but you'll find plenty of hispanics, asians, and blacks here, too.
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Old 10-04-2012, 10:03 AM
 
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Best cities in West Texas - Midland and Abilene. Midland is far supperior to Odessa. I would also take Midland or Abilene over El Paso.
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Old 10-04-2012, 12:42 PM
 
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Out of West Texas, I would go with Lubbock or San Angelo. Lubbock is twice the size of Abilene and has Texas Tech. San Angelo has Angelo State Univ. So if you are going to college or have kids, Abilene is way too expensive with their 3 private universities. Odessa is very flat and ugly. Midland has nasty oil smell, but I guess you could get used to it. Big Springs doesnt have anything much than a few prisons. Amarillo doesn't have a whole lot going on.
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Old 10-04-2012, 02:02 PM
 
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I would agree with Lubbock being superior to all of the other mentioned cities, but many don't consider it a part of west texas in my experience.
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Old 09-06-2014, 11:53 PM
 
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My favorite West Texas cities are Lubbock,Abilene,San Angelo,Midland, and Odessa.I live in Midland but if I had to pick another city to settle down and stay forever it would be San Angelo.
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Old 09-07-2014, 07:43 AM
 
Location: Kaufman County, Texas
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San Angelo would be my choice, too!
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Old 09-09-2014, 12:31 AM
 
Location: Texarkana, Tx
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Amarillo was left out or is it not considered west Texas?
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Old 09-09-2014, 02:22 PM
 
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San Angelo would be my choice, too!
What are your reasons for picking Angelo ChristieP?
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Old 09-09-2014, 03:48 PM
 
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Amarillo was left out or is it not considered west Texas?
some people think the Panhandle is not a part of West Texas.However, some people do.
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Old 09-10-2014, 12:48 PM
 
Location: San Antonio, TX
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Best cities in West Texas - Midland and Abilene. Midland is far supperior to Odessa. I would also take Midland or Abilene over El Paso.
^ This.
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