So you would NEVER live in Texas?

**concretejungle** · 05-01-2015, 07:13 PM

Originally Posted by AK47bp

Hmm Texas?.

My in laws live in Dallas and Houston.

Great roads.

Also if you need to go to Target, Walmart, Applebee's, Big Lots, Home Depot, or a Chilis there is one every 19ft.

No shit. Not that I am well traveled in Texas but there is family in Keller. What a fucking strip mall the whole Metroplex seems to be. Luckily they live on a farm in the middle of subdivisions and my Uncle likes to drink and hang out in the barn. Also, I had some damn good sushi in one of those strip malls.

Originally Posted by Ski to Be

Outside of the DFW being way too big for changing planes Ive always thought it was one of the nicer airports.

I guess DFW it's better than Love Field, LaGuardia or DIA

**warthog** · 05-01-2015, 08:17 PM

Originally Posted by Sirshredalot

I finally looked at the listing.

When I was house shopping here in Utah, I looked at a place with an indoor pool for about that price. It was too much money for too much house for our needs. And it wasn't really our style: my wife is a big swimmer but we would rather pay for a gym membership. But it was near the mouth of big and little cottonwood canyons. So, no, that real estate ad has not made us reconsider Texas.

Utah is in a realm all its own, I think.

**Plainview** · 05-02-2015, 02:35 AM

"So you would NEVER live in Texas?"

I'm a never say never kind of guy, so I'll just say "not if I can help it." Seeing as I'm half way or better through my life and haven't felt compelled to leave the green, mountainous, river and alpine lake filled state that also borders the Pacific ocean yet, I'm guessing I'll probably never be forced to live there just to eek out an existence.

**Vt-Freeheel** · 05-02-2015, 04:09 AM

God of all Texas [lyrics nsfw]

**assman** · 05-02-2015, 06:16 AM

Originally Posted by iceman

I happened to see this last week in the Sunday Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/23/re...each.html?_r=0

3 - $1.35mm houses, the one in Montana has taxes of $2500/yr., the one in Virginia Beach taxes are $8000, but the one in Houston is $48,000! holee shit

yeah. He said the RE taxes are high but the state income tax is low or non existent. Either way it's a boatload of $ to hand over every year. He didn't think it was bad until I pointed out it was going to cost him $180,000 every 10 years. He was like "yeah that's a lot of money"

I own a huge loft in a great area of a city and I pay $7000. a year. The value of my property is right around 7 figures. I am in a tax abatement area and have 5 more years left on the abatement. After that if I stay I think the tax bill will be around $11,000. I pretty much own it outright so at that point I am going to pack the tent and head off into the sunset.

**iceman** · 05-02-2015, 08:00 AM

I mean, at $48K/yr. the mortgage and the taxes would be about the same. But you pay off the mortgage eventually, the taxes will never go away.

**PNWbrit** · 05-02-2015, 01:26 PM

Originally Posted by concretejungle

I had some damn good sushi in one of those strip malls.

That comment disqualifies you from being taken seriously.

**Sirshredalot** · 05-02-2015, 02:40 PM

Originally Posted by warthog

Utah is in a realm all its own, I think.

Not really. Most of the mountain west has a similar cost of living. You can buy a similar McMansion around Boise or Reno or Abq or grand junction or wherever for the same money, provided that you have poor taste and/or a micropenis.

**TahoeJ** · 05-02-2015, 02:59 PM

Originally Posted by PNWbrit

That comment disqualifies you from being taken seriously.

No it doesn't. Some of the best sushi in LA, various cities in Hawaii and other cities happens to be at strip mall locations.

**Game Over** · 05-02-2015, 03:12 PM

Originally Posted by KQ

Hey now don't knock till you try it. I've got family in both Beaumont and Jasper that wouldn't live anywhere else. You stop on by and give them a big "Hi Y'all!"

I was born in Beaumont, lived in Silsbee till I was 6. My dad is still down there and lives on a golf course in Jasper. Got lots of other family down there as well. I stay the hell away.

**iceman** · 05-02-2015, 03:30 PM

I did not dig Beaumont. Really didn't like East Texas in general much. Seems a bit better going west and also down along the coast. Corpus was kind of cool in a way.

KQ · 05-02-2015, 05:26 PM

Originally Posted by steepconcrete

I was born in Beaumont, lived in Silsbee till I was 6. My dad is still down there and lives on a golf course in Jasper. Got lots of other family down there as well. I stay the hell away.

The Cajun side of the family live in Colmesneil. Population 596.

**smartyiak** · 05-02-2015, 05:46 PM

Damn KQ...you gots too many peeps in Tejas. The east part for sure sucks!!!! I send three days in Orange once...I think I got cancer from that chemically polluted shithole!

**Kopi_Red** · 05-02-2015, 05:51 PM

Shithole is a perfect description of Orange. Around 10 years ago I had to work on a construction job down there for a couple of weeks. What a dump.

**frorider** · 05-02-2015, 06:00 PM

Originally Posted by assman

yeah. He said the RE taxes are high but the state income tax is low or non existent. Either way it's a boatload of $ to hand over every year. He didn't think it was bad until I pointed out it was going to cost him $180,000 every 10 years. He was like "yeah that's a lot of money"

Good thing a math genius was available to point this out to him.

I've known plenty of cool Texans. The problem is that, like S Carolina, the idiot brigade is large enough to result in some whack laws and elected officials. I cannot fathom living in Houston area.

**Game Over** · 05-02-2015, 09:26 PM

Heh. My uncle was a county judge in Orange for 40 or so years. My two cousins grew up there and somehow turned out quite well. He just retired this last year or so and they sold the place and moved up to their lake house on Rayburn.

**Tippster** · 05-02-2015, 11:35 PM

Originally Posted by steepconcrete

Heh. My uncle was a county judge in Orange for 40 or so years. My two cousins grew up there and somehow turned out quite well. He just retired this last year or so and they sold the place and moved up to their lake house on Rayburn.

Probably because they were the rich/connected kids ya think?

East Texas is weird. It's everything that is shitty about Louisiana and Arkansas but they have oil money.

**frorider** · 05-03-2015, 09:31 AM

Originally Posted by frorider

Good thing a math genius was available to point this out to him.

I've known plenty of cool Texans. The problem is that, like S Carolina, the idiot brigade is large enough to result in some whack laws and elected officials. I cannot fathom living in Houston area.

To expand on this, read: http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolit...obama-takeover

Consider the fuckery here. Enough paranoid idiots in Texas believe this False Flag bullshit that the Gov plays along. Who cares that Austin has decent coffee houses....this state is busy undermining the very concept of a United States.

Another former Republican politician was a bit more pointed.

"Your letter pandering to idiots ... has left me livid," former State Rep. Todd Smith wrote Gov. Abbott. "I am horrified that I have to choose between the possibility that my Governor actually believes this stuff and the possibility that my Governor doesn't have the backbone to stand up to those who do."

**warthog** · 05-03-2015, 09:45 AM

Originally Posted by Sirshredalot

Not really. Most of the mountain west has a similar cost of living. You can buy a similar McMansion around Boise or Reno or Abq or grand junction or wherever for the same money, provided that you have poor taste and/or a micropenis.

Wasn't aware that they built McMansions in 1958, when this was built. This is an MCM style house. You either love it, or hate it. Apparently most hate it. Out of all those areas you mentioned, SLC is the only place I would live, so I stand by my statement that it is in its own category.

**SkiCougar** · 05-03-2015, 01:41 PM

typical comments of young and inexperienced.

now, Dallas and Houston are not worth living in unless you have to(although highland park is nice if you have the cash, Houston is a sauna with nothing to offer unless you're a pro sports fan); but Austin and San Antonio are both great, especially the west side in the hills. I'd take those two locations over many places in CO and CA.

sure, Texas has more conservative/right wingers/bible thumpers; but unless they're your next door neighbors; they have little to no affect on you. Anyone getting bent out of shape because the local govt and community leaders really have some personal issues. Most people you work with daily have no idea what you do with your free time and don't care, but the local govt does ? Only if you don't pay your taxes.

You can't ski every day and an affordable house on a hillside with a great sunset over the hills is just fine to me regardless of what the local governor believes.

**Sirshredalot** · 05-03-2015, 04:50 PM

Originally Posted by SkiCougar

typical comments of young and inexperienced.

now, Dallas and Houston are not worth living in unless you have to(although highland park is nice if you have the cash, Houston is a sauna with nothing to offer unless you're a pro sports fan); but Austin and San Antonio are both great, especially the west side in the hills. I'd take those two locations over many places in CO and CA.

sure, Texas has more conservative/right wingers/bible thumpers; but unless they're your next door neighbors; they have little to no affect on you. Anyone getting bent out of shape because the local govt and community leaders really have some personal issues. Most people you work with daily have no idea what you do with your free time and don't care, but the local govt does ? Only if you don't pay your taxes.

You can't ski every day and an affordable house on a hillside with a great sunset over the hills is just fine to me regardless of what the local governor believes.

If you want good schools and dislike sprawl, the right wing gubment directly affects your quality of living. Private school ain't cheap, and neither is buying an extra car to sit in sprawl traffic all day.

**frorider** · 05-03-2015, 04:53 PM

Would a monorail help?

**iscariot** · 05-03-2015, 06:31 PM

Originally Posted by frorider

Would a monorail help?

Monoooo...DOH!

**irul&ublo** · 05-03-2015, 06:45 PM

Originally Posted by SkiCougar

typical comments of young and inexperienced.

now, Dallas and Houston are not worth living in unless you have to(although highland park is nice if you have the cash, Houston is a sauna with nothing to offer unless you're a pro sports fan); but Austin and San Antonio are both great, especially the west side in the hills. I'd take those two locations over many places in CO and CA.

sure, Texas has more conservative/right wingers/bible thumpers; but unless they're your next door neighbors; they have little to no affect on you. Anyone getting bent out of shape because the local govt and community leaders really have some personal issues. Most people you work with daily have no idea what you do with your free time and don't care, but the local govt does ? Only if you don't pay your taxes.

You can't ski every day and an affordable house on a hillside with a great sunset over the hills is just fine to me regardless of what the local governor believes.

But seriously. The SEC has ruled your ass for years and takes all the good players.

EDIT...except for the ones that go to the Pac 12.

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