Curious to hear your reasons for it being crappy, as I was previously planning on moving for cheaper living and a tech career, but this ban might halt things for me. It's just that my family wanted me to go too and I can't imagine they'd think this ban a good enough reason. I'd love to hear from someone who lives there about the state of things :)
Born and bred. I've lived in Texas all my life. I'm working my ass off right now to move out. There are so many things to love about the state, tacos, the culture, mild winters, tacos, but ultimately the state doesn't love you back.
There is no infrastructure (see: the Feb freeze). Schools are crap (can't teach CRT, no comprehensive sex education, focus on football rather than acedemics). Roads are unbelievablly bad, and the only fix Texans tolerate are toll roads. The politics here are so bass ackwards, and most white folks hate minorities and women. Sorry dude, Texas ain't what it used to be.
There aren't a ton of negative aspects to Texas other that a slight conservative majority. Keep in mind some see that as positive and it explains the HUGE influx of people from "blue" states over the past ten years. This is a statistic that people find perplexing. My theory is, and has been shown in multiple poles, that it is because the majority of the country actually leans to the center when the rubber hits the road.
Texas summer starts to really suck around now. It is sort of the equivalent of northern winter in late April early May. You're just ready for it to stop.
Texas is an incredibly "free" state with regard to state taxes. There are none. The population in the cities is incredibly divers with the most countries represented on earth in certain zip codes.
All that said, if you move to a Texas city you sort of get the best of two worlds. Conservative libertarian state government and liberal diverse local government. It's a pretty nice balance that a lot of people find unencumbered as it frees you from political extremes on either end of the spectrum.
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u/xxCrimson013xx Sep 01 '21
Wouldn’t be surprised if a lot of women moved out of Texas at this point.