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06-03-2013, 12:14 AM
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#122
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Full time employment: Posting here.
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Location: Upstate
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Originally Posted by ER Eddie
Texas is cheap because it's filled with Texans.
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Is it true that Prince Philip commented on key problems facing Texas, "Texans live there"?
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06-03-2013, 12:20 AM
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#123
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Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: Upstate
Posts: 699
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06-03-2013, 05:57 AM
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Apr 2008
Posts: 483
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Few other observations on living in Texas.
Met two other business associates in El Paso for a meeting the next day. We stayed at the hotel by the airport. That night both had their rental cars stolen. Only certain cars were available to rent (no Fords). The hotel also left a note on your pillow not to leave any valuables in your room.
Eating lunch at a McD's in El Paso and noticed a Pest truck and workers. So happens there was a rattler in the kid's playscape.
Was driving in Austin and there was a pickup with lawn equipment and a trailer full of workers. It was stopped for a red light on a hill. When the driver popped the clutch it pulled of the rear bumper and hitch, leaving the trailer sitting in front of me. The workers ran off in six different directions.
In early 80's Austin there were blue laws - no stores open on Sunday. You could only buy a beer in a restaurant in certain counties and then you had to buy a membership first.
Huge real estate bust in Austin in mid-80's. Our new 115k home in '84 dropped to 70k in '87. Many of the relocatees simply walked away from the homes and moved back north.
One of my neighbors in Austin in '84 worked for the TX TOD and told me of plans to build an upper deck for Hwy 183. Traffic was already getting bad. 12 years later this project was just getting started.
One February we had an ice storm and a 90 degree day in the same week (I looked it up when my kids didn't believe me).
Incredible music venues in Austin - Threadgill's, Stubb's, Broken Spoke. Janis, Willie, and Stevie Ray all played there.
Liked some of the off the beaten track places - Fredricksberg, Johnson City, Bastrop, Lockhart, Gruene (green), San Marcos, etc.
On the whole I enjoyed my 14 years in Tejas. My daughters still live in Dallas and Houston.
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06-03-2013, 06:19 AM
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#125
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Columbia, SC
Posts: 1,131
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Never lived in Texas...but I like to watch Austin City Limits on PBS...
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06-03-2013, 07:14 AM
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Fredericksburg
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Yikes! The longer this thread goes on, the more it makes me glad I can afford to live in a blue state - even as a long time retiree.
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06-03-2013, 08:01 AM
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#127
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Texas: No Country for Old Men
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Originally Posted by nafddur1
Yikes! The longer this thread goes on, the more it makes me glad I can afford to live in a blue state - even as a long time retiree.
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So "cheap" = "red state"
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06-03-2013, 08:26 AM
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: May 2007
Posts: 331
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Quote:
Originally Posted by nafddur1
Yikes! The longer this thread goes on, the more it makes me glad I can afford to live in a blue state - even as a long time retiree.
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Glad you can too.
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06-03-2013, 08:38 AM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: Bernalillo, NM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by JoeWras
There's some history there...
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Besides the Republic of Texas: 1836- 1846, three other states were their own country before joining the USA, and they don't make a huge deal out of it.
Vermont Republic: 1777-1791
California Republic: June 14, 1846 - July 9, 1846
Republic of Hawaii: 1893-1898
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06-03-2013, 02:34 PM
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#130
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Administrator
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Chicagoland
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Thanks for an interesting discussion
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