What happened to Dallas and Texas? (Houston, San Antonio: house, live in, cost of)

[BakersDozenSupply]

Originally Posted by KerrTown

In reality Houston is absorbing Native Texans who are being pushed out by Americans in the I-35 corridor like a typical cold front. Lots of Dallasites live in Houston now because of discrimination by these transplants!

So, of course some Texans leave their city to move to Houston, but the opposite happens as well.... Not sure I'm understanding you r point here. What discrimination in Dallas are you talking about? Isn't this problem everywhere in Texas? HENCE MY POST

[BBslider001]

Talk and talk and talk, but it's pretty simple. The influx of aliens form anywhere else is going to tip the scales and remove what a place used to be. It's happened here, in Colorado, Southern CA, etc.... Old Texas values are only held dear by those who grew up here and know what they are. Now they are only found in the outskirts or in West Texas. Change is a constant. Sometimes it sucks.

[supfromthesite]

Originally Posted by LocalPlanner

Honestly, he/she sounds just like older Californians that pine for the "way that the place used to be." Birds of a feather.

Houston didn't promote diversity until after it suddenly realized that it already was. Furthermore, Dallas went "blue" long before Houston did.

And they are completely right. It's a shame what happened to California and it would be a shame for it to happen (any more than it already has) to Texas.

[RevelateTransform]

Originally Posted by BakersDozenSupply

I remember the state where our Texas roots were true and deep. Our beautiful Texas churches were everywhere to the public. etc...

Keep in mind that back when you observed Texas roots to be true and deep, old men sat around on porches and moaned about how much better everything was in the good old days, and how the world's going to hell in a handbasket, etc..

As did older folks when they themselves were younger.

Things change and the special time of our years coming of age will never come back. Doesn't mean that the future is worse, just different.

[KathrynAragon]

Originally Posted by RevelateTransform

Keep in mind that back when you observed Texas roots to be true and deep, old men sat around on porches and moaned about how much better everything was in the good old days, and how the world's going to hell in a handbasket, etc..

As did older folks when they themselves were younger.

Things change and the special time of our years coming of age will never come back. Doesn't mean that the future is worse, just different.

And it's always different.

I remember my grandmother saying "People always want to go back to the good ol' days - well, I lived thru those days and they weren't all that good."

She lived through two world wars, the Depression, picking cotton in a summer field, people dying of polio all around her, the Spanish flu, the Civil Rights movement (and before it), the Korean War, the Vietnam War, etc. Good times!

[tmtex]

The liberal Cali people have all moved in. Look in the Dallas forum and all you see if CA-TX moves

[JJG]

Originally Posted by BakersDozenSupply

Before I get into this, let me say this. I'm not singling out Dallas, but they were my last hope. My Texas isn't what it used to be...

That's where I stopped reading because I knew where this post was going...

[riaelise]

what the heck is "my texas" and "texas values"??

I'm not Texan, nor do I aspire to be, but my kids and husband 100% are, and just because they may not walk your path OP doesn't make them less Texan than you. Since when did being Texan mean being just about every stereotype that you can think of?

[eastontracks]

Originally Posted by BakersDozenSupply

Before I get into this, let me say this. I'm not singling out Dallas, but they were my last hope. My Texas isn't what it used to be. We are supposed to be the friendly state, but now the "friends" we invited in have chaosed the entire state! I don't even know where I am anymore.

I remember the state where our Texas roots were true and deep. Our beautiful Texas churches were everywhere to the public. Now they're stuck doing everything to themselves because religion is ashamed in public. Taxes and cost of living made it easy to live here. Now they're going up everywhere! Country music was the definition of Texas, now all we have to show for music is that hip hop and what not and Austin's music festivals. I understand country isn't nation wide popular, but it never really was and our country musicians found a way to excel. Even our biggest cities weren't scared to vote red, now people are actually debating on Texas voting blue in the future. Where did it come to this!?

Now why am I singling out Dallas? Because Dallas was the last hope. Austin has been liberal's poster child for quite a while. Houston has been turned to try to be a Chicago type city focusing on "diversity" and urbanization and what not (yaawwwnnn). San Antonio and southern Texas were always their own thing. The Dallas-Fort Worth area was the place! Where one could live in a big city and not be scared to show off your traditional Texas values. Where yes ma'am culture was a priority. Where people still wore their traditional Texas boots (what happened to that one?). Now its plagued by the same route as the other 2 lost causes of Texas, and there's no turning point in site.

Congratulations Texas! You're officially a thing of the past!

Only read the OP post and not the replies but I disagree. Almost all Large U.S. Cities have changed to all have similar big city like amenities. I think TX has a lot of charm left although the cities have evolved. I’ve also never heard a native Texan say “southern TX”. I took any credit when I read OP write that.

[malcorub16]

Originally Posted by eastontracks

I’ve also never heard a native Texan say “southern TX”. I took any credit when I read OP write that.

I noticed that too where OP says "San Antonio and Southern Texas"....it's South Texas, not Southern like Southern California. Maybe in the Texas OP remembers and longs for it was called Southern Texas but in my 40 years no native has ever called it that.

Next they'll probably refer to I-10 as "The 10."

Originally Posted by ParaguaneroSwag

As an old Texan would say, hold your horses partner.

This was pretty damn funny.