re: Anyone Have Experience Living in the Texas Panhandle?

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.