Lubbock VS Amarillo

[Westerner92]

Originally Posted by Boddicker

I'm happy to hear it. I want a strong panhandle, and Lubbock is the anchor!

You should probably tell officials and farmers to stop draining the Ogallala dry then. I’m trying to get my immediate family out of that part of the world before it implodes.

[supfromthesite]

Amarillo. Less college kids, closer to Colorado, better location and geography in my opinion.

Lubbock is nice if you go to Texas Tech. That's about it. I would actually be fine with living in Amarillo, if I had a ranch or something there.

[Moopalupe1]

Lubbock is better and I have lived in both; I have hated Amarillo everyday. The winters are colder, the wind never stops, the feedlot smells, not that many great restaurants that aren't chain. I live in HTE and I couldn't tell you who my neighbors are, people do not come out of their houses. I just don't like the vibe here.

[panhandle8]

Originally Posted by Moopalupe1

Lubbock is better and I have lived in both; I have hated Amarillo everyday. The winters are colder, the wind never stops, the feedlot smells, not that many great restaurants that aren't chain. I live in HTE and I couldn't tell you who my neighbors are, people do not come out of their houses. I just don't like the vibe here.

LOL. I cannot remember the last time "the feedlot smelled" and there has been very little wind as well. By the way, there is wind all over the US, ask me how I know. You sound extremely unhappy, perhaps it is time to move.

[Westerner92]

Originally Posted by panhandle8

LOL. I cannot remember the last time "the feedlot smelled" and there has been very little wind as well. By the way, there is wind all over the US, ask me how I know. You sound extremely unhappy, perhaps it is time to move.

Statistically speaking, it's definitely true that West Texas is one of the windier places in the US. Among cities above 100K population, Amarillo has the highest average wind speed in the nation, Lubbock at 5th, Abilene at 12th, at least according to City-Data (though none of the sources are listed).

The biggest concentration of feed lots in the world is centered in Hereford, which is usually upwind from Amarillo, so Amarillo usually has a slight stench to it. I spent a lot of time in Hereford growing up, and you can actually see feed lot haze in the glow under streetlights some nights. There's a feed lot just outside of Lubbock on the SE side. It's generally pretty rare to smell it in town because the winds usually come from the west. In my observation, it was actually a little more common to have a cold front sweep the Hereford smell down from the north. The same thing even happens in Denver occasionally if a cold front brings down air from Greeley.