Anyone Have Experience Living in the Texas Panhandle?

The train has wheels and photosynthesis. Duck before mailbox.

I was stationed in Clovis, NM from 10-13. Clovis was horrible, but Amarillo and Lubbock aren't bad at all.

The biggest issue with the area is that you aren't very close to anything really and the climate is ridiculously unpredictable.

Prayers sent.

Get AIDS and/or Ebola before you go, at least you know you won't be there too long.

I haven't lived there, but have spent a bit of time there for work. Honestly, I find it to be the harshest climate I have ever been around....either burning hot or freezing cold...and always a strong wind blowing dust and sand....

I like the people there a lot...good, down to earth folks with lots of agricultural and oil field experience....

I find the food to be good as well...I like robust flavors and the Mexican food and barbecue out that way provides that....

There is excellent hunting and fishing in the.area....

The only.thing that I really didn't like is the lack of vegetation...growing up in the south, I am used to lush, green vegetation and I found myself missing that when there....

Cost of living is dirt cheap....check out housing costs there and you will be pleasantly surprised....that is, unless you get into one of the oil&gas ares...

I lived in San Angelo for 8 years. That's not panhandle, but my kids athletics gave reason for us to be up in the panhandle pretty regularly.

Our high school football district included Amarillo and Lubbock. We had to travel 6 hours for some of our away games, if you can believe.

Like everyone is saying, one of the harshest climates I have been around. Scorching hot... freezing cold... incessant wind.

I guess you can find some decent barbeque in Dumas and tex-mex in Amarillo, but otherwise expect a culinary wasteland. Seafood??? fagedaboutit.

I've been through Dumas... not much there. A lot of friggin trains. On the upside, if you ski, its not too bad of a run to Wolf Creek in SE Colorado, home to the highest average snowfall in CO. It's a really good mountain, just not a resort type place.

My advice: try to shack up with a nice country, Texas gal, and ride it out until your next opportunity.

My dad always said "the wind always blows there. There's nothing to stop it but a barb wire fence and two strands of it or down".

Lived in Canyon for 2 years. Very cold and windy during the winter. Hot and windy during the summer. Always windy, all the time. It's very dry. Not much rain, lakes or green. It's also very flat

Stayed in Amarillo for 2 days in November on the way to Santa Fe. We stayed for 2 days so we could check out Palo Duro Canyon which is about 20 miles south of Amarillo. Palo Duro was awesome and I would totally go there again and rent a cabin or tent camp.
I would never go to Amarillo again. Just seemed like the whole place was ghetto and it was windy as frick. There was absolutely nothing there, in Amarillo itself, that was interesting or cool in any way.
Just seemed like a pit stop on the way to somewhere else for most people.