Texas - Recommendation Where To Live

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livesoft wrote:
The Wizard wrote:I think the OPs friend would be happier weather-wise in metro San Diego, if he can deal with higher house prices and taxes...
Just wanted to point out that El Paso, Texas is closer to San Diego than it is to Houston.
Geographically speaking.
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The Woodlands, all the Corvettes are gone and now replaced with BMW's, Audi's, Mercedes Benz's, Bentley's and a Ferrari here and there. 8-)
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livesoft wrote:
The Wizard wrote:I think the OPs friend would be happier weather-wise in metro San Diego, if he can deal with higher house prices and taxes...
Just wanted to point out that El Paso, Texas is closer to San Diego than it is to Houston.
Yes, Texas is very big! This comes as a surprise to many people from those little states in the east. :mrgreen:
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My 2 cents is that people often overvalue being close to a particular airport and that this variable requires deeper analysis. If you are flying once a month or less, for instance, I don't see being close as such a big deal.

I like the analysis that a poster did earlier in this thread about how long it really takes at different airports to park, get through security, etc. Is there cheaper parking so that I can park my car instead of taking the shuttle? Where do the best flights (time-wise and money-wise) originate for the places I will actually be going?

For instance, San Diego has been mentioned several times in the thread. If you need to fly to Asia, being close to San Diego airport is not that useful, the connections are longer and more expensive. I have flown to Asia starting at North San Diego County each of the last 8 years and each time I ended up flying out of LAX even though I would have been happy to pay a bit of a premium (in flying time or money) to fly out of San Diego, it has never even been a close call.
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technovelist wrote:Yes, Texas is very big! This comes as a surprise to many people from those little states in the east. :mrgreen:
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Hello, I live in Houston Texas and love it. Lots of jobs and good people and food.

Houses are cheap and no state taxes.
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Midland. It's hot, dry, and flat. You get that scent of Hydrogen Sulfide, too. So long as fracking continues, the economy will boom.
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Reviving this thread in order to summarize with a spectacular chart:

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technovelist wrote:
livesoft wrote:
The Wizard wrote:I think the OPs friend would be happier weather-wise in metro San Diego, if he can deal with higher house prices and taxes...
Just wanted to point out that El Paso, Texas is closer to San Diego than it is to Houston.
Yes, Texas is very big! This comes as a surprise to many people from those little states in the east. :mrgreen:
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Lived in Houston all of my life and love it, but then it is all I know :) The Woodlands is nice but too suburban for me, my wife and I live inside Loop 610 close to (but not in) River Oaks. We like the close shopping, restaurants, diversity, and everything we do is nearby. Allen Parkway re-building trails along Buffalo Bayou is quite stunning, Memorial Park is about to be re-furbished.

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It's been enough time for the friend's decision on where to move. What was the outcome?

@neutics, Great table! Thanks for sharing. It could fit also with those Amarillo threads simply by replacing "Lubbock" with "Amarillo".
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