# Texas, Our Texas... how you have fallen

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-our-texas-how-you-have-fallen/987351>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [July 21, 2023, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-our-texas-how-you-have-fallen/987351 "2023-07-21T13:30:56Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 29, 2024, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-our-texas-how-you-have-fallen/987351/61 "2024-11-29T00:41:52Z")

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> [@Chefguy](#):
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> On one trip I had to go to El Paso to check out a possible project at a prison.

I grew up in Las Cruces, NM, about 45 miles from El Paso in the 80s. We’d generally have to go there 2-3 times a year to do more exotic shopping, to go to pick someone up or leave from the airport, or (me only) go to a gaming convention that 'Cruces was too small for. I’d have called the whole town a prison with only minor exaggeration. It’s NOT an appealing city, but I won’t just blame that on the Texas-ness.

On the otherhand, I spent far too much time in Plainview TX (read as one summer and a couple of school long holiday) and that’s a pure Texan hellhole, far, far worse than the similar time I spent in Amarillo TX!

But I have a great deal of fun when visiting friends in Austin, and the areas in the Dallas/FT Worth Metroplex I’ve visited were quite “normal” other than some of the signage, although to be granted, I was visiting mostly more upscale areas where my brother and his family lived.

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