Anybody else leavin? (Houston, Dallas, Early: taxes, live in, cost of)

[Vic 2.0]

Why the heck not?

[Dallaz]

Heck, I would leave too if I lived in Early, Tx.

[Vic 2.0]

Originally Posted by Dallaz

Heck, I would leave too if I lived in Early, Tx.

Haha, but you'd just move to Dallas, I take it. Where the water supply is... better?

[Dallaz]

Originally Posted by Vic 2.0

Haha, but you'd just move to Dallas, I take it. Where the water supply is... better?

I lived in Dallas all my life. Of course you would want to move out of Texas because you live in a very small town. If you actually lived in big cities like Houston and Dallas, I'm sure you would have loved it.

[kenshi]

What exactly are we talking about leaving and why?

[Vic 2.0]

Well, we started thinking about moving further north to get away from this 'perpetual drought' experts have been talking about, a theory that the drought will never lift in Texas. It will stabilize, if not get worse.

That got me thinking about how I wonder if my son will have a place to swim in a few years, and then about my son's future in general. As mentioned, Early is less than ideal in a variety of ways. We want him to have better quality education and recreational activities. If not for the drought, we might have considered moving to a bigger city in Texas.

I don't know if anyone else has seen it, but we're seeing a lot more U-Hauls driving around these days...

[txsizzler]

Alot of it has to do with overpopulation of CERTIAN AREAS, which dry up the aquifers and surface water sources for the smaller communities. Its basically more about bad planning with water rights than anything else. If we could get more desalinization projects along the coast going, we could reseed the aquifers and have a perpetual supply available. Only problem is, is most cities along the coast don't want to front the cost of desalinization projects.

Once the La Nina lifts, the state should return to more of a normal rainfall pattern. The northern half of the state has already seen alot of rain this fall, and the drought situation there is certainly better than it was earlier this year.


Ian

[Vic 2.0]

They're saying this drought is caused by carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, however, and that it's a permanent rise in temperature that will keep the drought going rather than a lack of rainfall per se.

Make no mistake; I'm not suggesting Texas will become a barren ghost state. I'm sure it'll be "just fine" for as long as the world in general is. But we're at least looking at higher taxes to pay for our water, wherever it does come from.

Weather360 (http://thestar.blogs.com/weather360/2011/07/southwestern-us-headed-for-a-perpetual-drought.html - broken link)

[txsizzler]

Originally Posted by Vic 2.0

They're saying this drought is caused by carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, however, and that it's a permanent rise in temperature that will keep the drought going rather than a lack of rainfall per se.

Make no mistake; I'm not suggesting Texas will become a barren ghost state. I'm sure it'll be "just fine" for as long as the world in general is. But we're at least looking at higher taxes to pay for our water, wherever it does come from.

Weather360 (http://thestar.blogs.com/weather360/2011/07/southwestern-us-headed-for-a-perpetual-drought.html - broken link)

If you are referring to the "Greenhouse Effect", thats another whole can of worms, which is rather debatable. Most climatologists feel the current drought scenario is due to the on-going La Nina, which generally means a warmer and dryer Southern USA, with the storm track swinging to the north causing wetter conditions across the northern tier of the nation.

Texas won't become barren; but much better management over water rights and the usage of water sources needs to be implemented. Otherwise, you can expect water rates to continue to climb, and restrictions to come into play.


Ian

[Zembonez]

Originally Posted by Vic 2.0

They're saying this drought is caused by carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, however, and that it's a permanent rise in temperature that will keep the drought going rather than a lack of rainfall per se.

Make no mistake; I'm not suggesting Texas will become a barren ghost state. I'm sure it'll be "just fine" for as long as the world in general is. But we're at least looking at higher taxes to pay for our water, wherever it does come from.

THEY say a lot of things that rarely turn out to be true. Fleeing Texas for "who knows what" seems like a silly alternative.