re: Texas is one of the most overrated states to live in

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And thank god this state is not heavily Catholic. That is a huge upside in my book

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Why do you say that? Have you seen videos of those Texas mega churches that all have light shows and bands?



This is why I can’t stand evangelical Protestant churches. They put more emphasis presentation than the message which is contradictory to what Jesus wanted.

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It’s like an hour plus outside of the city. I don’t know, maybe it’s good to get these people out in the country by themselves

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That's what the Israelis said about Gaza

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Dallas, Austin, and Houston are basically sprawled out, decentralized cities full of corporate chain restaurants where there is no walkability at all and you have to drive 15-20 minutes just to get to places. All three of those cities feel like they were taken and artificially transplanted in farm country. They have no organic feel at all.

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It’s so bad. Houston especially is garbage. I’ve tried to like it several times and always left wondering why this place has been so successful. I’ll never get it. Houston is a laughing stock among other major cities in the U.S. more so than Dallas or Austin. Outside of the cities in Texas, the small towns are all major dumps. Dusty, crusty, and miserable.

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He would do the same shite if he saw people like Gordon Robertson and Joel Osteen.

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You know there’s a lot of other Protestant churches other than these two correct?

You’ve shown your arse throughout this thread. That’s par for the course for a Buck Tech supporter though

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Imagine being from Ohio and talking shite on Texas

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For someone who likes to deer hunt…Texas deer hunting has nothing on big Ohio whitetails.

Plus, no place in Texas looks like the Wayne National Forest.

Other than that…that’s all I got for O-H-I-O

Great list. You forgot Applebees per this board

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maybe it’s good to get these people out in the country by themselves

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Better to get them out of the country.

We just moved from Nashville to The Woodlands which is about 30 mins from downtown Houston.

Texas does feel a little overrated but it’s better than living in Louisiana. I was born and raised in LA and getting out of there was one of the best things ever. I would prefer to be in Nashville still but my wife wanted to be closer to home so Houston was the best option without actually being in Louisiana.

I thought Frisco was really nice and wouldn’t mind living there but that’s still too far from home for my wife.

ETA: I think the people here are top notch. Much more welcoming than Middle Tennessee

Lot of fallacies in here, I'll break it down:

- I have not met 1 person from California in Houston. That's mostly Austin, and it's still a tiny portion and way over blown. Mostly just Meta and Oracle Big Tech type employees that make up a tiny fraction of Austin metro.

- I didn't move here because cheap living and to make a political statement at all. If you're from Louisiana and are a high achiever, there simply are no corporate jobs in the state that are worthwhile. You pretty much have to move to Texas (besides doctors. LSU grad doctors typically don't have the resume to get a big city Texas type MD role. They mostly have to stay in Louisiana. Same can be said for LSU lawyers.)

- As for calling Baptists morons, I am Southern Baptist and went to a top 5 university (think Yale, Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Penn Wharton) on an $85,000 scholarship. I personally don't flaunt Texas at all and will always consider Louisiana as home, and take more pride in it when I have the chance to do so. Seeing LSU dominate the NFL is an example of that.

- Houston houses are probably the cheapest of any top 15 by population metro (if there are others cheaper I'd like to know). It's basically Mexico. 50% of the city proper is Latino (85% of that is Mexican), metro is 38% Latino. The property taxes are what they are because there is no state income tax. Convenient to exclude that in your biased points. Meanwhile, Ohio state income tax is 3.5% AND a median property tax of 1.36%. Texas has 0% state income tax, and property taxes are 1.6% I think. That means cumulative effective tax rates in Ohio are much higher than Texas.

- As for walkability, you will only find that in Boston and NY. There isn't a single metro outside the North East that is walkable. I do not think San Francisco is a walkable city. You need a car there.

The things you got right are traffic and summers. Houston is as humid as Louisiana, but temp wise gets hotter up to 105. The highest you'll see in BR or Nola is 97 or 98. One thing that I dislike about Houston is that a lot of natives here think it is South Louisiana/Cajun. I've met probably 1,000 people just casually in my time here, and only 2 have had Cajun last names; and they are in the same boat as me, went to LSU and came here for jobs. It is much more Mexico than it is South Louisiana. Only similarity is geography/low elevation. But if you go through a phone book, you might find 1 Cajun name every 10 pages. Even in Shreveport in my high schools classes of like 25 people per class, there were always like 1.5 to 2 people with a Cajun French last name like a Melancon, Boudreaux, Guidry, Landry.