I think we’re just going to have to accept that living in Texas would be a sort of hell to many New Yorkers and vice versa. Why can’t they just leave each other alone?
I think we’re just going to have to accept that living in Texas would be a sort of hell to many New Yorkers and vice versa. Why can’t they just leave each other alone?
Having lived in NY Metro for six years and owned / financed a half dozen businesses in TX over the years I’d say Texans would have a far easier time leaving NY alone.
But as they say, the only problem with Texas is there’s too many Texans…….and, and it’s true for more than people would like to admit, New Yorkers are sure the country ends at the Hudson, and that the savages inhabiting the western territories need to be herded and domesticated.
There is a wisecrack you occasionally hear in Los Angeles: “There is no life east of Sepulveda”.
I’ve never been to NYC, nor in my own living memory TX. For some reason, neither has had much pull to my interest; maybe that’s because they’re so alike.
Growing up in Colorado I learned to hate Texas. But then, later in life I lived in San Antonio for almost 4 years and actually enjoyed it – mostly. Similarly I had no love for New York. Now my sister-in-law lives there and I really enjoy the city.
I’m sure there will be cries of objections by Texans and New Yorkers, but I think the haters are just being provincial and need to get out more.
NYC is an awesome place to visit, though I’d hate to live there unless I was worth twenty billion dollars or more.
Only been to Texas twice, I think. I know I was there once at a business retreat outside Houston at some golf resort. From what I saw, it was a golf resort where it’s flat and green. Gee, as a native Floridian I’ve never seen anything like that before.
And I think, though I’m not sure, I once had to make a connecting flight in Houston on a trip to or from California.
Not enough knowledge to make a judgement either way, really, but I do have one other data point. My brother traveled thru Texas many times, and he hated the place. He thought West Texas must be Hell itself, as no place not cursed by God HisOwnSelf could possibly be that ugly*, and didn’t really like the state otherwise. We were pretty different people for the most part, but on things like this we were often simpatico, so I tend to regard Texas rather warily.
* It wasn’t just that he was a Southerner accustomed to greenery, either. He generally liked deserts, and thought New Mexico in particular was beautiful. But west Texas offended his aesthetic sensibilities.
My Texas experience is pretty much just around the San Antonio area. The Hill Country is great, as is Austin. San Antonio itself is mostly huge sprawl. We did drive through west Texas on our way to Big Bend National Park, and west Texas is…depressing.
NYC is definitely expensive. My sister in law has an average 1 bedroom 2nd floor apartment in a good area of Brooklyn and pays about $1800 a month in rent. If she were renting today, it would be closer to $2k. $1800 a month would get a nice 4 br house in an upper-middle class neighborhood here in Florida. And then everything else is expensive. The upside is that public transportation is good, so she can get to work without a car in New York. But she has a car anyway, because frequently she wants to go other places. My family is five total – we window-shopped 3 & 4 bedroom apartments in Brooklyn and they were $3500-$4000 a month. So you need to make at or above median US income simply to pay the rent. No thanks.
Related to the “live and let live” thread, I heard this today on NPR:
http://www.thetakeaway.org/story/economic-divide-between-red-and-blue-states/
Wow, that guy the interview is really living in bubble and despite his attempts to understand why anyone would live in a “red” state, he really doesn’t get it.
Oops, this is the live and let live thread! I blame a lack of wine in my bloodstream.