What Part of Texas Has the Most Moderate Weather & Least Natural Disasters? (Houston: cost of living, moving to)

[C24L]

I dont think that Texas will meet the OP's climate needs.

[ragnarkar]

Originally Posted by radiolibre99

Exactly, the stuff to do should at least be a B, agreed. I don't know what the poster was doing with their time in Texas but I don't know how they'd rate the food especially in the cities as C??? A- for sure.

The poster must've just stayed home and griped about having to move away from their home state. LOL

California isn't my home state, just the previous state I've lived in. And I'm currently residing in Midland, though I've seen Dallas and I'm trying to triangulate what I've seen so far into what the ratings might hypothetically be for the urban areas in Texas.

For Midland, it would be more like:

Weather: B+
Stuff to Do: D+
Job Market: A
Food: C-
Traffic: A-
Cost of Living: B

[C24L]

Originally Posted by ragnarkar

California isn't my home state, just the previous state I've lived in. And I'm currently residing in Midland, though I've seen Dallas and I'm trying to triangulate what I've seen so far into what the ratings might hypothetically be for the urban areas in Texas.

For Midland, it would be more like:

Weather: B+
Stuff to Do: D+
Job Market: A
Food: C-
Traffic: A-
Cost of Living: B

I live in Midland also and there is nothing to do here lol.

[ragnarkar]

Originally Posted by C24L

I live in Midland also and there is nothing to do here lol.

I spend my entire weekends playing http://www.ingress.com

I cannot imagine living in Midland pre-smartphone and especially pre-Internet.

[C24L]

Originally Posted by ragnarkar

I spend my entire weekends playing http://www.ingress.com

I cannot imagine living in Midland pre-smartphone and especially pre-Internet.

Ya,Midland's real boring...

[Mark Senior]

Originally Posted by ragnarkar

California isn't my home state, just the previous state I've lived in. And I'm currently residing in Midland, though I've seen Dallas and I'm trying to triangulate what I've seen so far into what the ratings might hypothetically be for the urban areas in Texas.

For Midland, it would be more like:

Weather: B+
Stuff to Do: D+
Job Market: A
Food: C-
Traffic: A-
Cost of Living: B

You've been in Midland during a drought, and thru SEVERAL summers yet? A B+ in weather?

[ragnarkar]

Originally Posted by Mark Senior

You've been in Midland during a drought, and thru SEVERAL summers yet? A B+ in weather?

I've lived through the infamous California drought and countless 100+ days from June through October in Southern California and I'd still rate that an "A".

[Sollaces]

I've heard South Padre Island is a retiree's paradise. I don't know about winters there but the ocean breeze and ocean activities sound wonderful.

[ScaryTucson]

South Padre is one of the most humid places, even though it would be cooler, it wouldn't feel that much better most of the time. The worst weather in Texas is around Laredo as far as how hot it feels (real feel). The closer you are to Laredo, the worse the weather generally gets (until you go west or north). It's unbearable 8+ months of the year, think Arizona but add humidity. San Antonio to Austin to Wichita Falls to Dallas, that corridor is also bad, the summer just doesn't last as long as in Laredo on an average year.

As someone else said earlier, FT Davis/Marfa/Alpine is the closest weather in Texas to a Mediterranean climate. It's not a Mediterranean climate, but almost every day the temperature will be where you want it to be for at least a few hours. It really doesn't get hot that often in that area, only towards June/July, already starts cooling down in August. Very short summers, but there is no infrastructure there due to it being sparsely populated.

Second to that, it's going to be El Paso, or if you don't mind colder winters, then Amarillo area.

The rest of the state is a blazing inferno of heat or heat+humidity.

[C24L]

Originally Posted by ScaryTucson

South Padre is one of the most humid places, even though it would be cooler, it wouldn't feel that much better most of the time. The worst weather in Texas is around Laredo as far as how hot it feels (real feel). The closer you are to Laredo, the worse the weather generally gets (until you go west or north). It's unbearable 8+ months of the year, think Arizona but add humidity. San Antonio to Austin to Wichita Falls to Dallas, that corridor is also bad, the summer just doesn't last as long as in Laredo on an average year.

As someone else said earlier, FT Davis/Marfa/Alpine is the closest weather in Texas to a Mediterranean climate. It's not a Mediterranean climate, but almost every day the temperature will be where you want it to be for at least a few hours. It really doesn't get hot that often in that area, only towards June/July, already starts cooling down in August. Very short summers, but there is no infrastructure there due to it being sparsely populated.

Second to that, it's going to be El Paso, or if you don't mind colder winters, then Amarillo area.

The rest of the state is a blazing inferno of heat or heat+humidity.

ya, i hear a lot of people like the climate of Alpine/Marfa/Ft Davis.Also, a lot of people like Midland-Odessa's climate because it is not as hot as the humid parts of the state which allows it to cool off nicely in the evenings during the summer.Lubbock has cooler summers than Midessa and milder winters than Amarillo.