LOL*
Ain’t it the truth.
Nah…they’re a REAL Texan(or a REAL Dallasite anyway)if they know what the Pig Stand was and why it’s significant in modern resteraunt history.
IDBB(who is a real texan but has no idea who Deaf Smith was)
Goddamn, I miss Texas. How’n’hell did I end up in Connecticut?!
–robby (native Texan)
P.S. Whenever I talk to my great-Aunt (a member of the Daughters of the Confederacy for over 50 years), the first words out of her mouth are always: “How’re you doin’ up there with all them Yankees, eh boy?” 
LOL, yeah, but where would you Texans be able to work, make top dollar AND still get to collect the Alaska PFD if not the North Slope?
'Sides, with all the moose, buffalo and caribou we’ve got, who needs cattle?
pssssssssssst. Now, which part of Texas should I move to? Because there’s one myth/legend about Alaska that is NOT true, the one about the ratio of men to women being 10 to 1.
If I had to chose between the three, I’d pick San Antonio.
(Full disclosure: born on the Texas Gulf Coast, raised in Dallas, spent ~10 years in real West Texas and ~2 years in Waco, spent good quality time just about everywhere in the state, and family in the Dallas area, Central TX [Lampasas, Bandera, and Fredericksburg], Houston, the Rio Grande Valley, and Uvalde.)
I know I started this thread, but reading all these posts sure makes me proud to be from Texas.
a Native Houstonian
Go Texas!
Are you guys really trying to discourage tourists? You scary…
Ooh, ooh, i think I know this one. First Drive-In? or first drive thru? I know I read this in TX Highways some time back.
For all you fellow displaced Texans, I strongly urge you to get a subscription. For only $17 a year, you get a monthly fix of Texana; food recipes, photos, small town stories, history, etc…
And isn’t Deaf Smith the man that led the charge at San Jacinto?
Tourists and immigrants are welcome, as long as you don’t whine about how things are “better back home”.
He was Sam Houston’s scout, and IIRC he raced to the bridge at San Jacinto to either burn or chop it down, thus cutting off Santa Anna’s escape route. There’s a huge mural painting of the battle in the state Capitol, where you can pick out Smith and other players.
BTW, he has a county named after him.
Snort:D
Well, I know a few things, if we cut Alaska in half, Texas would be the THIRD largest state. But I’m well aware that it would STILL have the least amount of “stuff to do”.
If I do end up moving there, you won’t find ME whining about how things were “better back home”. Alaska is beautiful alright, but the general public has the SUCKIEST ideas regarding what is fun.
I want to go where people DANCE!!! (they still do that in Texas right?).
I feel that I must point out that Maverick is my real name (yes, my mother is from Texas, Fort Worth to be exact). Therefore, an additional definition of Maverick is a Shagnasty
BBQ is made from beef, not pork.
Hell yeah we still dance!!! C’mon down, and we’ll paint the town red!
I would like to move back to Texas, too, because Dallas just isn’t close enough. Between Dallas, Austin, and San Antonio, I would choose Austin. But I haven’t lived or visited there for over 10 years, so it might’ve changed a bit from the city I knew and loved. I’ve lived in all three.
Really, it depends on what you’re looking for in a home, because all three cities have radically different personalities, topographies, and climates. You can get some ideas from TXDot. As gereral characteristics, I would say that Austin is a beautiful city with lots of outdoor recreational opportunities, and the closest to liberal as you will find in Texas; San Antonio is friendly and laid back, having all the amenities and problems of a large city but the atmosphere of a small town; and Dallas is very urban and fast-paced, where flash and surface are important. Terribly furriner-influenced.
In Defense of Dallas:
Adair’s
Sons of Hermann Hall
Hole in the Wall
Prince of Hamburgers (Best Root Beer. Period)
Hunky’s (and the rest of Cedar Springs area, especially Buster’s Burritos and most especially Jay at Buster’s)
KHYI 95.3 FM The Range
Herrera’s on Maple.
The Mecca for breakfast,
Mama’s Daughter’s Diner for lunch and
Celebration
for supper.
Looking back, I see I’m pretty pathetic. Food, drink and music. Might I be obsessed?
Can’t believe I left off Mike Anderson’s on Harry Hines.
Your links all do have a common theme, and you are right - food, drink, music, and overall nightlife are a plus here. But the music is (or was?) better in Austin, and there is no Mexican food in Dallas that can compare with the average hole-in-the-wall in San Antonio.
The shopping is a plus, we get Neil Sperry on the radio every weekend, the Arboretum is gorgeous, we get a full 2 weeks of winter weather every year, the Stars kick butt (or used to, but they are still fun to watch), summers aren’t too hot or humid, the Ballpark in Arlington is damn near perfect, White Rock Lake is pretty nice, and jobs are rather plentiful and pay well relative to the rest of the state. Uh, and there’s a theater with stadium seating on every corner.
I can’t help it. I’ve lived here for nine years and it still feels more like a foreign country than like home. Not like Houston, San Antonio, and Austin did. I’ll stop with the Dallas bashing.
Dallas has many attractions, and it’s not a bad place to live. My major complaint is the (literally) hundreds of square miles of suburbia that surround the Dallas area. Depresses me and makes me want to scream - a private version of hell.
Austin is a nice city, much smaller (under 1 Million in the metro area.) Less “big city” attractions than Dallas (museums, pro sports), but has a good local music scene, and is on the edge of the Texas Hill Country, which can make for nice weekend getaways. The economy in Austin is not real hot right now, with all the dot.coms that went bust a couple years ago.
I won’t comment on San Antonio since I’ve never lived there.
Only if you eat the whole meal in an hour. Does anyone ever? I know I couldn’t.
I got some sane advice for anyone moving to Texas. DON’T commit a crime there. I repeat, DON’T commit a crime there. Texas don’t play games like these other states do. Gosh you’d think some people would have learned that by now.
Ashkicker, your advice is sound. Former Harris County DA John B. Holmes, Jr. had similar advice when folks in another state were upset that we gave the death penalty to one of their own.