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re: RURAL TEXAS: Towns DYING A Slow DEATH - Far Off The Interstate
Posted on 12/9/22 at 9:59 am to Street Hawk
Posted on 12/9/22 at 9:59 am to Street Hawk
We used to have family in Matador. That was a desolate place 40 years ago when I was a kid.
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Posted on 12/9/22 at 10:04 am to Street Hawk
I grew up near there. Almost everyone I graduated high school will moved. There's just no industry to keep you in small west Texas towns anymore. You either have to be in agriculture or oil (if o&g is good). Or maybe the customer service industry if you can keep a business open long enough. Some trades may have success. But neither will net you a very good income.
Posted on 12/9/22 at 10:14 am to AllDayEveryDay
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But neither will net you a very good income.
I can't imagine you would need a ton to have a decent life up there. $50k goes a lot further there than in say Dallas.
Also, if you get one of the many WFH jobs paying $100k+ you could own half the town
Posted on 12/9/22 at 10:26 am to BengalBen
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If a prime Cybil Shepherd is there waiting for me it may be worth it.
Telling us you’re old without telling us you’re old.
If a man of any age can honestly look at prime Cybill and say they wouldn't, they're gay. It's science.
Posted on 12/9/22 at 10:28 am to Street Hawk
I am familiar with Floydada. It used to have two major railroads serving it. Now it has none.
Corn,cotton,cattle,and oil.
The things we need the most.
Corn,cotton,cattle,and oil.
The things we need the most.
Posted on 12/9/22 at 10:32 am to GreatLakesTiger24
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then what?
Did you miss:
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and get the hell away from everybody
Posted on 12/9/22 at 10:34 am to PetroBabich
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Great places to scoop up cheap land and get the hell away from everybody
Still too close to old and new mexico for me.
Posted on 12/9/22 at 10:35 am to Street Hawk
I wouldn’t mind living in West Canaan.
Posted on 12/9/22 at 10:36 am to GreatLakesTiger24
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then what?
Get a chainsaw
Posted on 12/9/22 at 10:38 am to H2O Tiger
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can't imagine you would need a ton to have a decent life up there. $50k goes a lot further there than in say Dallas
Yep. I have family in southwest Nebraska where there is nothing and houses start around $35k for a comparable house that is over $100k here
Posted on 12/9/22 at 10:40 am to Street Hawk
speed trap towns need to be allowed to die a slow death
Posted on 12/9/22 at 10:43 am to BRL79
Where are you located? I haven't seen a house for $100k in Dallas or Austin
Posted on 12/9/22 at 10:48 am to Obtuse1
I run that stretch quite a bit going to and from Colorado.
It is usually around 11:00 at night and I take a nap in the rest stop with the horse corrals. I started doing that when I was hauling a horse back and forth.
It’s a really sad statement when the best place on a 5-6 hour stretch of road is a freaking rest stop.
It is usually around 11:00 at night and I take a nap in the rest stop with the horse corrals. I started doing that when I was hauling a horse back and forth.
It’s a really sad statement when the best place on a 5-6 hour stretch of road is a freaking rest stop.
Posted on 12/9/22 at 10:48 am to Lakeboy7
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Get paranoid about the "government" and post a lot on PT.
If you are conservative and not paranoid about the government - you are a fricking idiot.
Posted on 12/9/22 at 10:50 am to Obtuse1
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When driving down from Denver headed to Amarillo after you get of the I-25 at Raton Pass and onto US-87 there is a long stretch of tiny little dead towns one after another.
I also take this drive a bunch. After Dalhart, you hit Texline. I don’t think I’ve seen much there except a school and some grain silos. It doesn’t get much better in New Mexico. There’s a little town called Clayton that was home to some rodeo great. There are a couple of hotels and a grocery store there.
Posted on 12/9/22 at 10:54 am to Teddy Ruxpin
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There's a county up there where like 20 people voted and only one person voted Democrat.
Sounds like you’re describing Loving County. Is one of the highest per capita income counties/parishes in the country. Heart of the Delaware Basin in the Permian.
I think in 2020 is was something like 60 people voted, and all but about 3 or 4 went Trump. Population in the most recent census was maybe 64.
Posted on 12/9/22 at 10:58 am to TexasTiger08
I actually really enjoy the drive through the panhandle and into New Mexico. We go this way every year to ski and while there may not be much, it's an interesting part of the country to take in. Once you get into New Mexico the views get very pretty as you transition from high desert to the mountains
Posted on 12/9/22 at 10:59 am to USMCguy121
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Still too close to old and new mexico for me.
The four Southeastern NM counties (Lea, Eddy, Roosevelt, Chavez) are way more like West Texas than New Mexico. At least in how they vote and how their local governments operate.
Posted on 12/9/22 at 11:02 am to tigerinthebueche
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And? Is this supposed to be a revelation?
Because *you* have seen and know exactly what's happening in America's rural towns?
Please share your own detailed observations as you driven through the towns of American "Outback". I'd be sincerely interested.
Posted on 12/9/22 at 11:03 am to ragincajun03
Just read up on Loving county, interesting place
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