TEXAS-It's like a whole other country!

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Living in Idaho right now.
But we are planning to move back to Dallas when our daughter completes high school
She has already chosen Texas A&M for their Marine Biology course.
So I KNOW I'm coming home!


Best of luck.

RTFM
 
No man's life, liberty or property is safe when the Texas Legislature is in session. Unless they're hiding in Oklahoma or New Mexico, then it's their local problem.

There's a reason they only meet once every 2 years.

Welcome to Texas.

Regards,
Rabbit.
 
Welcome to Texas.

As far as Barbeque goes, I have had Memphis Barbeque, and it is not even close to the Kreutz Market in Lockhart, or the Church of the Holy Smoke in Huntsville. There is an old saying, "I would rather be a fence post in Texas than the king of Tennessee".

Just my .02,
LeonCarr
 
Welcome to Texas! It's good to have another firearms owner here. You sound like you'll fit in perfectly. Corpus Christi is a nice place.


For the others comments about Austin: I've lived in Austin for 10 years. I'm originally from Dickinson, in between Houston and Galveston. Austin draws the ire of other Texans for different reasons. There are more hippies/liberals here than exist in other Texas cities. For the most part they aren't anti-gun liberals though. They are environmentalists that want to protect the beauty of their city. There is more to do here than any other city of its size in the USA. The hill country is absolutely beautiful and offers hundreds of opportunities for recreation and travel. I don't care for all the whiney Californians and other West Coasters that are moving here and are telling us how to do things with their condescending attitude about Texas. They are a blight on the history of our city. If you want to try and bring California-culture here, and tell us how to do things, get the hell outta here! I used to live in L.A. for a short time and think California is really screwed and on the wrong track. These citified newcomers have no clue about what has made Austin special in the past and what it should continue to be. Austin has a special culture where rednecks and hippies came together in the 70s and made some of the best music ever. Willie, Waylon, Janis Joplin, Stevie Ray, etc. I love that I can go swimming in the swimming holes of Barton Creek in a city park, right in the middle on a city of a million people. There are plenty of gun rights advocates here too. Red's, Hill Country Rifle Range and the Austin Rifle Range (in Manor) are all great places to go shoot. Of course the hippies don't know anything about firearms and the second amendment, but they are the minority in Austin by far and they aren't actively trying to restrict gun rights here. I think they realize its a no-win situation to try and restrict gun rights in Texas. Left wing politics doesn't control our city like in Chicago, Boston and Philly. But we do vote to protect our environment around here. I think that's a good thing. The people want to retain the recreational use of their lakes, streams, watering holes, aquifers and parks.

Austin isn't perfect but it's damn near close for a city of this size.


I'm from Texas, and my family's been here since just before the civil war. My father worked for the US goverment (Army Corps of Engineers in Galveston) and my family moved around quite a bit. After I found out what I wanted to know about the world I came back here. I'll probably never move away again. It has everything that I want in life (except for some tall mountains to hike and climb in) and has a culture that I deeply respect.
 
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Molly Ivans is from Austin. Answer your question?
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As far as liberal columnists go, Molly Ivins isn't all that bad.

She can at least write clearly and sometimes makes good points despite the vitriol. If nothing else, her and Jim Hightower are entertaining.

Whereas Ellen Goodman couldn't write a coherent column or make a logical point if she had to in order to save her life.

Even Texas's liberals are more intelligent than Eastern liberals. :D
 
So... are there any states besides AZ, TX, and AK to live if you are a "gun nut"? I'm stuck in KS for at least another year...:( plan on movin back to AZ soon however! :)
 
So... are there any states besides AZ, TX, and AK to live if you are a "gun nut"? I'm stuck in KS for at least another year... plan on movin back to AZ soon however!
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Nevada is a Right to Carry and a Class III state.
 
From the few people I know that live in Texas, I've got the impression that Austin is the Berkeley of Texas.

Any Texans care to comment?

I went to UT for 5 years and saw none of that.

Kenneth Lew
 
PA is Shall issue and anything federally legal is good to go here.
Lots of rednecks.
But the job outlook sort of sucks and it stays too cold for too long around here.
I am planning on going south when I finish school anyways.
Texas may be on my horizon as well.:D
 
Welcome to Tejas. Lots of diversity here.

Yea, Austin does have some extremists, but quite possibly notorious due to some media of similar mindset.

My daughter is in second year at UT and is an officer in newly-formed "social organization" for female students, it's primary focus being "cultural education for young women". Their last meeting was for them to learn how to play poker. :cool: The agenda for the next meeting: One of the girl's boyfriend is going to explain the game of hockey ... And she's asked about borrowing one of my self-defense videotapes for a meeting early next semester ... ;)
 
I'll take AZ any day Tex boy's. We can have loaded guns on our person or in our car without a permit. We have pretty much the same CCW system that you have, know why? Because yours was modeled after ours....FACT. I like Texas, but for a place that you must have a permit to carry a loaded handgun, you guy's dont have it all.

PS: As a AZ native, TEX-MEX sucks.:D :D :D

FLAME AWAY LOL.....Course I got miles of TX jokes.:D :D
 
There's a place called Cotton's BBQ in Robstown outside of Corpus on the way to Harlingen on HWY 77 that's worth a visit. Serve tender brisket, ribs, etc. on waxed paper with a thick slice of onion. Beans and bread on the side. Extra slice on the house when you're ready.
 
Houston,
Got kinfolk that way, a cousin whom does undercover...
ya'll have nice eatin' joints yourself. Been stuck in the Wasburn tunnel lately?
Been awhile, but last time went into a family owned drug store, cousin and I checking out the guns ( smith wheels) while our mom's looked at cards...
:D
Mom&Pop druggist, get B-day cards, wrapping paper...and ring that model 36 up while your at it...:D
 
Wouldn't've thought Kanas would be that much different....
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As someone born and raised in Kansas who just made his escape a year ago (to the rarified air of the Rocky Mountains) I can tell you Kansas is NOT a pro-gun state.

Its still one of the anti CCW holdouts (for that matter, most of the larger towns forbid open carry), there's no NFA and at least half the Republicans are RINOs.

Once my parents are dead and I convince my brother to abandon the place and head for the high country, I doubt I'll ever set foot in the state again (except maybe to drive through it on my way to somewhere else).

My only problems with Texas are its flat, humid and they gots BIG BUGS! But the people are great (well ... except when they come out here to ski ... then they seem to lose all sense :neener: ).
 
So basically avoid most of the northern type states eh?
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Idaho is shall issue, recognizes permits from all other states, and, given that there exists an organization called IDAHO AUTOMATIC WEAPONS COLLECTORS' ASSOCIATION, INC., I'll make the assumption that Class III is legal. :D

Montana is also Shall-Isse, not sure about Class III.

Of course, it can get a tad chilly up there in the winters.

I'd love to live in Texas, but I love mountains and green forests.
 
Look at a highway map of Texas: West of I-35, the humidity gets rather low, other than down near the Gulf Coast. Is that enough dry area for you?

Mountains? In Big Bend National Park, you can hike from the HQ at 3,500 feet to the top of Emory Peak, at 7,800. That ain't Pikes Peak, but it's not what you'd call flat, either. You can descend from Emory Peak to the Rio Grande, at about 1,900. There's about 3,200 feet of change in the Davis Mountains, from 5,000 to 8,200, which is a pretty good hike. Guadaloupe Peak in Guadaloupe National Park reaches on up to some 8,400.

The Hill Country isn't heavy timber, like eastern Texas, but it's green all year round. Lotsa tree cover. Live oaks are Nice Things, along with elm, pecan and cedar trees.

There's pretty much something for most anybody, somewhere around the place...

:), Art
 
Just about like everywhere else out here in the west. There's sand dunes and desert in Wyoming and Colorado. TX is a good state. TEXANS Overate it BIGTIME. Every state has it's own particulars. I lived in TX for a while, it's less gun friendly law wise than manny places out west, and more people friendly than most places out west. Natives have notoriously Big heads, and they should understand that the rest of us dont see that picture. When I lived in Colorado; I was suprised there wasnt a season on Texans, they were hated so much.:D
 
Yankee here, sticking up for Austin. It's a great city you should love it, with the exception of that socialist rag of a newspaper.

Saw Austin for the first time this year. Thought it was great even with the chickens in the street, just gave it more character. Tejas is good for guns, lots more onerous laws than I am used to, but aus Kansas, should be a welcomed relief to you.

Of course, the only other city in Tejas I've seen is Saint Tony's (unless you count Kerrville as a "city" and not a "town", not sure), but Austin was fun too as I recall (remember most of it, mid-30s slowing down). Remember, no matter where you run, there you are.:D Get the gig first.

Grey, I will be returning to Austin in the Spring (have to get done a couple more times before TR goes TU). You like sushi? The head chef at the best joint down there is from West Lafayette.:D
 
Loved Austin when I went to summer school there at University of Texas Law School. Liked the true fresh TexMex food, cool swim spots and nice live music. And cold beer. I still like those things after all these years. (Semi-retired now). Now Texas has real wineries, too. Texas also has beautiful sunsets, beautiful women, and little tiny armored things that get killed in the road.
I am even thinking of moving back there...
 
It's funny, I wouldn't say Texans are necessarily 100% nice. We're very hospitable and mannerly, but hospitality is a little different than being "nice".

I think we're more like a bed of rattlesnakes, ants or hornets that will pour you a coup of coffee and invite you to their rock with them. Leave us alone and we're benign. Stir us up and watch out.

And if you're from Arkansas, I can see why someon wouldn't think that Texans are very nice........ That goes waaaayyyy back, before I was born, heh heh. Same with Oklahoma.
 
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