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re: Seriously, whats so great about Texas?
Posted on 12/8/16 at 10:19 pm to Honky Lips
Posted on 12/8/16 at 10:19 pm to Honky Lips
When I move to a new area, I try not dwell on what I left behind or the negative things in my new town, but try and find the good things and focus on them. So here's some of the things that are neat about TX:
1) Texans really take pride in their state. Every state should be more like this.
2) BBQ - it was here that I 'discovered' BBQ and IMO it's the best BBQ there is.
3) Strong music tradition - who doesn't like SRV?
4) H-E-B, best grocery store in America
5) People are friendly here.
6) Doctors and hospitals are very good.
7) Guns
8) LA influences
1) Texans really take pride in their state. Every state should be more like this.
2) BBQ - it was here that I 'discovered' BBQ and IMO it's the best BBQ there is.
3) Strong music tradition - who doesn't like SRV?
4) H-E-B, best grocery store in America
5) People are friendly here.
6) Doctors and hospitals are very good.
7) Guns
8) LA influences
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Posted on 12/8/16 at 10:21 pm to AlwysATgr
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4) H-E-B, best grocery store in America
Dallas doesn't have HEB, but we have their central market which is fricking awesome
This post was edited on 12/8/16 at 10:21 pm
Posted on 12/8/16 at 10:25 pm to Honky Lips
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-weather sucks
It's a big state depends on where you live
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-other than a few select areas, the landscape pretty mediocre at best; downright shitty in most places
Unless you live in a place with a lot of topography this applies to just about everywhere
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No state income tax but you pay for it in property taxes, so that's a wash
Unless you choose to live below your means in which case you come out ahead
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The only answer I can think of is: BBQ
Guess it would also depend on your frame of reference. If you live in Louisiana then pretty much all of the things you don't like about Texas apply to LA but to an even greater degree. And without any of the good things.
Posted on 12/8/16 at 10:35 pm to TH03
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Dallas doesn't have HEB
They have bought several pieces of property in DFW. So its a matter of time.....although Central Market is pretty close to me as it is.
Posted on 12/8/16 at 10:36 pm to Zappas Stache
Yea they bought up most of the minyard sunfresh locations, but I haven't heard of any specific plans.
Posted on 12/8/16 at 10:37 pm to Powerman
Louisiana has some pretty good things to make up for its shortcomings that it shares with much of Texas. Fishing, swamp life, food, and I cannot emphasize family enough. People who aren't from here don't get it. There is a certain deep rootedness that comes with it. A certain infrastructure of human capital from having so much family history here for so long. It creates a sense of camraderie that is without equal.
Perfect example is the floods this past August. Ascension Parish saw nearly 100,000 people flooded out of their homes overnight. Most were completely unprepared. Their homes had never flooded before, and the water went from a few puddles in their yards to feet in their homes while they slept. Some places got 6-8ft overnight. Not one fatality. Everyone got out alive. They used their boats and rescued literally all of their friends, neighbors, and strangers they could.
100,000 people were evacuated in 48 hours, all with almost zero support from FEMA, state police, national guard, ect. It was almost exclusively people living in those neighborhoods.
When they got to the sheltar, they took charge until the Red Cross took over. They made a huge mess of things, so the people set up their own food distribution centers. As soon as the water receded, dozens of locations became gathering points for locals to cook meals. Then, at lunch and dinner, people would just pick up boxes of food and drive around to the homes of friends and family while they worked and delivered meals. No beaurocracy, no government, just pure straight giving. I am yet to meet someone who lost their home who ever went without shelter or food for even a meal. Those AP'ers are incredible people.
Perfect example is the floods this past August. Ascension Parish saw nearly 100,000 people flooded out of their homes overnight. Most were completely unprepared. Their homes had never flooded before, and the water went from a few puddles in their yards to feet in their homes while they slept. Some places got 6-8ft overnight. Not one fatality. Everyone got out alive. They used their boats and rescued literally all of their friends, neighbors, and strangers they could.
100,000 people were evacuated in 48 hours, all with almost zero support from FEMA, state police, national guard, ect. It was almost exclusively people living in those neighborhoods.
When they got to the sheltar, they took charge until the Red Cross took over. They made a huge mess of things, so the people set up their own food distribution centers. As soon as the water receded, dozens of locations became gathering points for locals to cook meals. Then, at lunch and dinner, people would just pick up boxes of food and drive around to the homes of friends and family while they worked and delivered meals. No beaurocracy, no government, just pure straight giving. I am yet to meet someone who lost their home who ever went without shelter or food for even a meal. Those AP'ers are incredible people.
This post was edited on 12/8/16 at 10:41 pm
Posted on 12/8/16 at 10:43 pm to Honky Lips
-weather sucks [I DISAGREE - October through April is awesome]
-other than a few select areas, the landscape pretty mediocre at best; downright shitty in most places [I DISAGREE - many wonderful areas, truly special]
-no good beaches (with all that coast) [I DISAGREE - South Padre Island - not every beach is Destin, dipshit... few beaches in the WORLD are that nice]
-southern part of the state is a war zone for illegals and drug trafficking [a highly overstated opinion, but true in-part]
-home to the world's most hated football team [which is??]
-other than a few select areas, the landscape pretty mediocre at best; downright shitty in most places [I DISAGREE - many wonderful areas, truly special]
-no good beaches (with all that coast) [I DISAGREE - South Padre Island - not every beach is Destin, dipshit... few beaches in the WORLD are that nice]
-southern part of the state is a war zone for illegals and drug trafficking [a highly overstated opinion, but true in-part]
-home to the world's most hated football team [which is??]
Posted on 12/8/16 at 10:46 pm to kingbob
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kingbob
Yep.
Nothing against TX, but I would love to move back home to LA.
Posted on 12/8/16 at 10:46 pm to kingbob
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Perfect example is the floods this past August. Ascension Parish saw nearly 100,000 people flooded out of their homes overnight. Most were completely unprepared. Their homes had never flooded before, and the water went from a few puddles in their yards to feet in their homes while they slept. Some places got 6-8ft overnight. Not one fatality. Everyone got out alive. They used their boats and rescued literally all of their friends, neighbors, and strangers they could.
wow,,, do you even remember what Houston did for you people after Katrina ?
Posted on 12/8/16 at 10:48 pm to OWLFAN86
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remember what Houston did for you people after Katrina ?
Seriously. Louisiana is a toxic waste dump that has to cling onto big brother Texas for life any time any shite goes wrong.
Posted on 12/8/16 at 10:55 pm to OWLFAN86
It's one thing to open your apartment complexes and hotels to be rented to FEMA for evacuees at double market value. It's another for the very people who have lost their entire community and all of its infrastructure to spontaneously without any higher coordination at all put it all back together again in less than a week, with almost zero outside assistance. That's a f$&king logistical miracle.
Posted on 12/8/16 at 10:56 pm to kingbob
quote:I happen to think thats what makes the food scene so great here
The culinary scene is varied and features great cuisine from all over he world, but it lacks a style unique to call its own
Posted on 12/8/16 at 11:01 pm to kingbob
quote:moron
t's one thing to open your apartment complexes and hotels to be rented to FEMA for evacuees at double market value. It's another for the very people who have lost their entire community and all of its infrastructure to spontaneously without any higher coordination at all put it all back together again in less than a week, with almost zero outside assistance. That's a f$&king logistical miracle.
we took in TENS of THOUSANDS ,, and fed, clothed , provided medical aid.
this was the COUNTY/ City Govt and Churches that did this at their own cost long before they were moved into housing , you talk about a logistical nightmare
I was there. Look I admire your regions response to the recent floods, but communities all over the world do that for one another in crisis
not just Houston, although we took more than other cities but Dallas, Austin, San Antonio,, even Waco
Posted on 12/8/16 at 11:03 pm to Honky Lips
I moved from Nola to Dallas because of the job opportunities out here, and can honestly say it's the best thing I've done in a while. There were really no jobs back at home. It also makes going back to Louisiana more enjoyable because you can play tourist and not have to live out the shitty parts for too long.
Posted on 12/8/16 at 11:06 pm to OWLFAN86
I know that, lighten up Francis; it was a joke.
We know Texas opened up their homes 10 years ago. Many have done so again, and we are thankful. I'm just sharing a unique story of the people in the flooded neighborhood picking themselves back up in a way that I think is pretty remarkable. That doesn't mean Texas isn't a nice place filled with nice people and great infrastructure. If I could get Louisiana's people to have Texas's work ethic, roads, and schools in. Louisiana, while adding an Orange Beach outside of New Orleans and some Mountains where Alexandria is now, it would be paradise on earth.
We know Texas opened up their homes 10 years ago. Many have done so again, and we are thankful. I'm just sharing a unique story of the people in the flooded neighborhood picking themselves back up in a way that I think is pretty remarkable. That doesn't mean Texas isn't a nice place filled with nice people and great infrastructure. If I could get Louisiana's people to have Texas's work ethic, roads, and schools in. Louisiana, while adding an Orange Beach outside of New Orleans and some Mountains where Alexandria is now, it would be paradise on earth.
Posted on 12/8/16 at 11:09 pm to AlwysATgr
HEB is the shite!
Posted on 12/8/16 at 11:10 pm to kingbob
I wish yall would take these frickers back
seriously the evacuees were the worst thing to happen to Houston since the Oilers left for Tennessee
seriously the evacuees were the worst thing to happen to Houston since the Oilers left for Tennessee
Posted on 12/8/16 at 11:12 pm to OWLFAN86
seriously the evacuees were the worst thing to happen to Houston since Enron got caught price fixing in California
Posted on 12/8/16 at 11:14 pm to kingbob
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If I could get Louisiana's people to have Texas's work ethic, roads, and schools in. Louisiana,
Haha...so if you could get Lousiana to become Texas, it would be heaven on Earth?
Posted on 12/8/16 at 11:24 pm to OWLFAN86
I wouldn't word it like that but you're right. I was in high school when all that cultcha came. It was unbearable.
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