Laredo was just a great place to go for a third world experience and a true blast before 9/11. I loved it there, frankly, as did my son.
That darn 9/11 stopped people from coming there as they tightened the drug laws (meaning, you could only bring a small amount of prescription drugs over the border, which was bad for cancer and other sufferers who bought the same drugs sold over here cheap on the Mexican side = why bother to go all the way to the border).
After that, all the drug wars at that particular spot in the border stopped Americans from going thru Laredo to the Mexican side. I mean, who wants to go thru the Mexican border at Laredo, Tx. and Nuevo Laredo, Mexican side, when gangster drug cartels are actually shooting at each other on the streets. No exaggeration either. Sad, sad, sad. It was so fun before....
REWahoo, I know you may think you are kidding...but that is exactly like most of my Tx-Arkansas relatives tawk....yeeee hawwwww! No DANCING in the high schools yet in 2007!!! And dry counties all over!!!
Dallas is going to be one of the fastest growing areas in the next 10 years according to my doing the stats with the US Census Bureau predictions. If there is no tornado that tears it apart, it just may well be. Seems alot of retirees are moving there from other States. It's alot more Texan than Houston, but also alot more sophisticated as Houston is considered a blue collar town in general.