Not mocking Dusty's thread I'm wondering..Texas people..

[Kaitlyn]

What's it like to live in Texas? :) or more appropriate :cowboy:

[Equine_Woman]

Same as everywhere. Although we all have horses and live with cows. Except I've heard tell there is a place over there that people live on acres and acres of concrete. And they don't all shop at WALMART!!! Scary!!

Lol. Guess I should go read Dusty's thread for I give you an answere huh?

[Equine_Woman]

Okay. I'm back for a serious answer. It's the same as everywhere else I've been. We shop at walmart and target and have big fancy malls and big fancy houses, nice parks, MUSEUMS, and we drive the same cars everyone else drives. Granted more of us have oil/naural gas wells in our backyard (like me, although it's not my well) but it's just part of the landscape.

Why do you think Texas is any different than anywhere else? I guarantee you there are as few real cowboys here as there are everywhere!!! Unless you are in the Stockyards. And most of those are fake cowboys!! Most of the people in my town have horses too, so I guess that is weird. But they raise cattle so it's part of their lively hood. Even the rich people in town have horses. So I guess that's a bit differet.

[Kaitlyn]

I've neveeerrrr seen a cowboy, I live in Ohio! lol and especially near Cleveland, there's not a lot of horses, or cows, or really anything. So Texas is like a whole different world that I think I'd love haha. I look at the Houston craigslist a lot which sparked it. I feel so sheltered lol.

[Equine_Woman]

Aww, well I guess it's just seems normal to me. I thought everywhere was like here!!! Fort Worth is a great town. Dallas, is scary, Houston is scary. . lol. Forum field trip to my hous!!! I've got tents. But we might want to wait until Spring so we don't freeze our noses off. . . of course to your Northerners it'd probably be like a heat wave down here!!!!

[alittleoffkey]

Houston is scary

Cows and horses are normal here in GA. My Uncle moved from Smyrna (basically in Atlanta) to a suburb of Houston - he loves it... then again, he lives in the same neighborhood as Sandra Bullock so he might have a skewed point of view. :rolleyes: I'd rather live out here, away from everyone and everything. I love horses, but people, meh, I could do without people. :D

Maybe when I go visit my Uncle this summer I'll take a tour of Texas. :cowboy:

[Kaitlyn]

LOL how freezing is freezing to you, E_W? I'm pretty good at 30 degrees, 20 kinda pushes it though.

[gabhainn]

"I guarantee you there are as few real cowboys here as there are everywhere!!! equine woman
well I a for one consider myself as real as they get lol, and there are plenty of us left but like the song says ya just cant see us from the road....Kevin

[Joey A]

What I've found about Texas is that the people really do vary a lot depending on where you are located. City folk are city folk no matter where you are from, the real difference is the country folk. They can go from nice clean humble people, to rich arrogant bastards, then straight to a scene from Deliverance.

<----- is no where near a cowboy, and dosen't even try to put on aires.

[Palogal]

I was not born in Texas but I got here as fast as I could!
I have to remind my husband when we go to IL and OH to see family that folks up there are not used to someone running around in Wranglers and boots all the time like at home. The biggest thing I noticed (and I love it) is that I have not touched a door handle since I've lived here. The men, the real, respectful ones which my area is crawling with, won't have a woman opening a door.

[FoxFireEMT]

I always wanted to visit TX. Soommmmme day... :(

[HoustonFarrier]

Having come here from Ohio, for me, the biggest change has been the weather.....mainly summer......it's hot......I mean H-O-T !!!! Plus, driving 2 hours to get somehwere is considered the "norm" here.

Gotta LOVE no state income tax!

Steve

[Palogal]

The Texas flag is plastered all over everything (I think I saw the IL flag 3 times in the 18 years I lived there). We have "tax free weekends" where there is no sales tax, Coke, pop... = SODA. The general population is POed that Obamma was elected. There are still dry counties here that you have to carry a unicard to drink. Service roads on most interstates (took me a month to figure those out). Summer is HOT, Fall and spring are beautiful and winter is wet.

[Ranger44]

I'm from Minnesota and have visited Texas several times and have found that people are people where ever you go. I have been fortunate enough to make friends with some of the most gracious people I have ever met.

I have a friend that had business contacts there so my first contact was with some very rich people but they are some of the most humble and friendly folks I have ever met. I've spent the most time on one man's ranch and he wears a business suit to work but when he is at home he mingles with all the workers who call him sir or Mr. very often. His wife raises quarter horses (her hobby, she has had up to about 100 at a time). It took a while to get used to having every person under 18 call me sir. In the rural areas I was able to spend some of the most relaxing and pleasant times of my life. I'll leave the city life to others no matter what state I'm in.

I look forward to going back often and wouldn't mind trying to fit in and live there some day.

[Kaitlyn]

Sounds like the only thing I couldn't stand would be the summer time lol.

[alittleoffkey]

Palo - That would drive me nuts. I opened the door for my father the other day and as he walked by he muttered "feminist". :D We're not terribly concerned with the whole 'politically correct' thing.

FoxFire - You and I could go visit my Uncle! You just drive down here to GA and we'll get Will to drive us out there so we can stay in his huge house and play with his dogs. :cowboy: That'll solve all our problems, right? :D

[sarhound]

I lived in the Dallas area for 30+ years and absolutely despised it--too many people in the North Dallas area who are shallow and materialistic. I couldn't stand the traffic, and I really don't think every square foot of available space needs to be turned into concrete and shopping venues.

I've moved out to East Texas and absolutely love it. It's a whole different world out here-- folks are genuine, will give you the shirt off their backs, and people actually know who their neighbors are. Communities are the real thing. Folks care about their towns and the people who live in them. The most traffic I see these days is 6 cars and 2 buzzards on the road to work. Roads wind thru some of the most scenic areas of the state, and the Pineywoods remind me a lot of home, which is Washington State.

Far West Texas is pretty neat, too, but it's a little too dry and rocky for my tastes. The nighttime sky is drop-dead gorgeous around Jacksboro. It literally looks like a million diamonds in the sky, and you can see the haze of the nebulae out there.

If I could just keep the temperature range at 50 to 80 degrees constantly, it would be sheer perfection out here. I don't much care for the heat and humidity levels where I am right now, but it's better than when I lived in Jefferson.

[vicklynn]

Im live in MO, have lived in TX, and am from WA state. Ive seen more cowboys in WA state than I did the whole time living in TX, until I went to Chris Coxs ranch. Here I see cow folk, some cowboys, but still not like WA to me. I think it depends on what area you live in, per state.

[lisakaye]

Aww, well I guess it's just seems normal to me. I thought everywhere was like here!!! Fort Worth is a great town. Dallas, is scary, Houston is scary. . lol. Forum field trip to my hous!!! I've got tents. But we might want to wait until Spring so we don't freeze our noses off. . . of course to your Northerners it'd probably be like a heat wave down here!!!!

I am on my way. I LOVE Texas !! Tent camping is fine with me as long as I can use the services in the house... I do not tinkle on trees...:p

[vicklynn]

:funnypost::hysterical:

[PoniesRock101]

Forum field trip to my hous!!! I've got tents. But we might want to wait until Spring so we don't freeze our noses off. . . of course to your Northerners it'd probably be like a heat wave down here!!!!

oo wish i could go! lol! i dont think i'll freeze anymore than i am now! its 19 degrees here- and we have snow everywhere!

[Equine_Woman]

It was 68 degrees here today I believe!! Of course it was freezing over night. Brrr. Around 32.

[Kaitlyn]

LOL I'm good at 32! I want to go so bad!

[Ryle]

I've lived here most of my life (except for 6 mo. in N.C). Lived in and around Dallas for a couple of years, worked in the downtown Dallas area, but for the most part I've lived in rural north central and north east Texas. Cities are cities, though I still think you find more courteous and outwardly friendly folks in Dallas and other cities in Texas than you do up north. (Visited up around Boston once and the gas station attendant acted like I was going to rob him because I said "hello") I prefer living in rural areas just for the sheer space--not big on neighbors and can't keep my horses in the backyard in the city. People here will talk to you like they know you just because you are standing in a line together somewhere or sitting at the local diner. It's a community, not just a town.

The "holding doors" etc isn't about political correctness, it's about respect for other people.

[Palogal]

Palo - That would drive me nuts. I opened the door for my father the other day and as he walked by he muttered "feminist". :D We're not terribly concerned with the whole 'politically correct' thing.



It's not about that ALOK. A gentlemen opens the door for a lady out of respect, not because she can't or shouldn't, but it's because he is respectful and was taught that that is proper behavior. Texas - at least the country parts of it are pretty tranditional that way.
I think some of it has to do with a pretty strong sense of family here. The kids stay around more so than I noticed in the North especially if there is a family farm - much more popular down here. The boys learn from their fathers and learn how they are to treat their mothers and it transfers to other women.

[JackieB]

One thing I've definitely noticed in my many trips to Texas is that Texans are fiercely proud of their heritage. Texas was its own Republic before joining the United States, and Texans still value their independence greatly.

The next thing that struck me is how large Texas is when driving around in it! Distances are deceiving. It can take hours to make a drive that would be less than half that on the map of any other state.