Texas? To move or not to move?

[rick458]

the best meal I EVER had was from a little french resaraunt
on the east side of College Station (take University past the loop and turn north then go about a mile cannot remember the name
white two story house Haunted absolutly wonderful food).

 

[BerettaNut92]

How's the sushi?

 

[Aggie1]

Sushi????

We call that bait down here.

 

[rick458]

Skunk you have to go to Houston Austin or Dallas for the
non batter freid non blackened non broiled non baked fish dishes
but we have Chicken fried steak out the wazoo

 

[Texas Gunman]

Seem like everyone pretty well said it all, Im fond of the Kerrville area aka Texas Hill Country.

It has everything a gun loving man or woman want, you'll feel at home your first day here.

TG

 

[Dannyboy]

Since no one else has said it, I will. Texas has the best looking women in the country, if not the world. I was partial to the UT girls, myself. I know you're married but that is beside the point.

 

[seeker_two]

I live near Bryan/College Station & Waco. Great medium-sized cities. B/CS has more diversity in stores, but Waco isn't far behind. Either are a good choice.

FWIW, B/CS & Waco aren't in East Texas. They're in Central (as in Heart of) Texas. For East Texas cities, you'd look at Tyler, Corsicana, & Texarkana. Much smaller cities there, but the huntin' & fishin' is better...

(...and, if you miss the liberals on the Left Coast, you can always visit Austin...:banghead: )

Here's some good gun stores to check out...

Waco:
Praco Pawn
Hewitt Guns

CS:
Burdett & Sons
Champion Firearms (good selection, bad service)

Buffalo:
Buffalo Sporting Goods

Dallas:
D/FW Gun Range (www.dfwgun.com)

As for the CCW laws, check out www.txdps.state.tx.us

Come on down...

 

[Hawk]

some 'burbs not that bad...

I work at a small company in Irving - occasionally described as West Dallas.

There are a total of eleven female employees, seven of which I've taken to the range at lunch for a machine gun rental / recoil therapy (it's gentle - DFW gun range has 9mm MP5's). The other four are just waiting their turn - I'm catching up as best I can.

Most of the guys have gone as well, but I only cover MG rental for the ladies - just old fasioned, I guess. Their respective husbands / SO's can cover it after the intro I provide. The going joke is that I'm trying to build an army to infiltrate the MMM.

The range works well for entertaining customers as well.

GAWD, I LOVE THIS PLACE! ...just can't picture this sort of thing working well in, say, SanDiego.

 

[rick458]

We do have very pretty women down here
but oddly enough I married a Jersey Girl
she is a transplant that the roots took well

 

[BerettaNut92]

No sushi?!?!?!?

Any Korean barbecue???

 

[Blackhawk]

Great thread about Texas!

Fill it in with El Paso, Big Bend (Art's yard), Laredo, South Texas, and the Gulf Coast, and it could be adopted by Parks & Wildlife as a travelogue.

 

[Braz]

Something I wrote for another forum,

Austin, a place where 50,000 collage girls return each fall. The center cloud of guitar slinger heaven. There are more live music joints in Austin than you can shake a pick at. On one hand you can water-ski in the icy cold Lake Austin, or sail the warm water on Lake Travis. Great water parks, beer gardens, best BBQ and longnecks, rattlesnake chili and beer festival, come to think of it most all activities require liquid because it's hot. Really hot. For six months out of the year. Ya get three months of fair weather wrapped around three months of bitter cold. In the summer your in water, or pouring it into your face.

Always wear shoes, everything on the ground is thorny. Turn on the lights to avoid the scorpions when you go to the bathroom at night. Don't leave shorts on the floor because of the black widows. Never make a cat door (don't ask). Try not to fall asleep in the grass, the fire ants take a few tourists every year. It's Red and Yellow Kill a Fellow for coral snakes, please don't hurt the king snakes as they eat the rattlers. Hornets don't lose their stinger and die when they attack, but they can smell fear a block away. The pretty red centipedes are not to be played with, and if your not the Crok Hunter, leave the tarantulas alone. Baking soda works for mosquito bites, but mosquitos love the smell of baking soda. Bats will not lay eggs in your date's hair, but they will make her mess up your Boxster seats. Oh and lastly, don't let your new fishin' buddies talk you into yelling "Gig 'Em!" in public. You'll find out why.

Cya up...Braz

 

[Greybeard]

Texas Parks and Wildlife: http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/

P.S. Avoid barbeque sandwiches in convenience stores that also sell minners.

 

[TexasVet]

Any Korean barbecue???

Holy Cow! We may partially civilized here in Texas, but we still don't BBQ PEOPLE!!!! Even Asians! We kinda like most of them, even.

 

[ahenry]

Just now able to get back to this. Anyway Kirk, looks like somebody else beat me to the clarification of your list so I won’t bother adding more. A couple of important points however. First, several statutes (30.06 law for example) are in place to protect other rights beyond the right of a person to carry a gun. In the case of the 30.06 statute, the private property rights of business owners are protected without undue infringement on an individuals right to carry (ease of avoiding location with sign, etc). This is a necessary and good, and I would argue, cornerstone to ones freedom, or at least as cornerstone as the right to carry a pistol around. And my last little point here is this. I agree with you that it is easier to obtain a concealed carry license in Indiana. However, handgun carrying that is but one small aspect of “gun laws†and but one minute portion of ones overall freedom. For example, how many threads have we had here and on TFL about a self-defense shooting in Texas that turned out satisfactory for the good guy? Or how many times have we discussed a defense of property shooting in Texas that turned out satisfactory for the good guy? What about our discussions of Texas Law Enforcement? I could go on, but I’ll stop and hope you see my point. I tell you what, if you were practicing law here in Texas instead of up with all those Yanks, you never would have felt the need to harp so much on “problem number 2â€... Regardless, I have never been to Indiana, but from what I have heard it sounds like a great state, and I’m not at all trying to suggest that its not. Or even imply that it has restrictive laws. For what I’ve read its laws sound pretty good overall. I just don’t think you know what you’re talking about when you say Texas has restrictive gun laws.

ahenry, I understand that this here visiting Yankee following RoT law is the freight I pay

Hey, I are an Aggie. What is RoT?

 

[ahenry]

the best meal I EVER had was from a little french resaraunt on the east side of College Station (take University past the loop and turn north then go about a mile cannot remember the name white two story house Haunted absolutly wonderful food).

I’m confused. I assume by loop you mean 2818. IIRC, where 2818 and University intersect (by Easterwood Airport and the Bush school) there isn’t much at all going north (away from campus). Parsons Mounted Cavalry has their “Green†right there, and going on farther north a few miles you get to the Hall and such. Did I get confused here or did I just always drive past it without noticing?


Speaking of eating in B/CS. If you come you must try Wings-n-more, they’re fantastic. Also for people that never lived here you ought to try Freebirds Burritos. Burritos like no other place on earth. Also, I discovered a place out of town that my fiancé loved for me to take her to. It’s a little restaurant on your way towards Huntsville (can’t recall the name of the highway, but its the main highway out there). Its called The Black Forrest Inn, but as far as I know its not actually an inn. You have to call and get reservations and they aren’t always open (although they will sometimes open for just you), but when they are it is an incredible "date" place. Sometimes it would be just you and your date, or at most one or two other couples. The food was fantastic, and the prices were wonderful. IIRC, I took my fiancé out there a couple or three years ago and we ate some real fine food had a bottle of wine, appetizer, the whole nine yards and I think I just paid 55-60 bucks (including a nice tip). Of course that just meant I had more money to spend on her somewhere else. Anyway, I would recommend you try it, if there’re still in business.

 

[JohnKSa]

Ooops!

Johnny Guest is right. With regards to owning automatic weapons: The $200 fee is a transfer tax and goes to the Feds. There is no state fee.

Sorry about the misinformation.

John

 

[stephen_g22]

Great Sushi in Houston!

Welcome to Texas, if you don't have a firearm, we'll be happy to loan you one!

I lived in College Station for 5 years while getting my first degree. It would be a great place to raise a family.

There are two kinds of Texans, those that were born here and those that got here as quickly as they could!

 

[rick458]

for the restaraunt ,I was refering to the road running parallel to Highway 6 (non Buisness) but further east past the Fox and hound, Hilton and Roadhouse just keep going east and you Tee into a road, turn north and go up about 3/4 - 1 mile the restaraunt will be on the right (sure would be easier if I could remember the name.

and Freebirds Rules

 

[Sylvilagus Aquaticus]

Skunky, Richardson, a suburb of Dallas to the north (actually, they have a common, tortuous border) had a huge Asian population. Home of First Chinese BBQ, which is a dive but they have good food. In fact, there is an entire shopping center of nothing but asian restaurants just north of the Richardson PD and a great little place called Mike's Guns (obligatory firearm reference) on Greenville Avenue. Mike used to fly Oscar Deuces and has some tales.
There is a huge Korean presence over off Harry Hines as well, and the largest Vietnamese population outside of the Texas coast lives in Arlington, if memory serves correctly. You can't hardly sling a dead cat without hitting a pho bar around these parts. No pun intended, really.

Regards,
Rabbit.

 

[BerettaNut92]

'sling a dead cat'?

What's a 'dive'? Jeez you guys talk funny!

Fo' sheezie, my heezies! Awww nawww....fo' sho'....

Viet food! Reeehaw!

 

[El Tejon]

ahenry, RoT=Republic of Tejas. Anywho, Tejas is more restrictive than where I am which is more restrictive than Vermont. My point to the young man was that his view of a different state's gun laws will be based upon where he is from. Thus, my view of Tejas gun laws are different than someone from, say, California.

Self-defense laws are not necessarily gun laws. However, it does part of me good to read about SDs gone well.

Do not shortchange Problem #2. Those darn tilecrawlers are expensive!

 

[Dannyboy]

Any Korean barbecue???

I think I remember hearing that the Killeen/Harker Heights area has the largest Korean population in the country. Considering this is where Ft. Hood is located, I'd say it made sense. Anyway, there is some good Korean food in Killeen.

 

[ahenry]

Rich,

Are you talking about Christopher’s, little pricey, but probably the best food in all of B/CS? If you are, I wholeheartedly concur with you on how great it is. That place is incredible (in food and cost...).

El Tejon,

I should have known what RoT was. Duh. I don’t disagree with your overall point, just your interpretation of Texas gun laws. Guess we’ll just have to disagree. As far as problem number 2 is concerned, I never have and don’t plan on fixating on it, as I run my life by doing what is right and let the consequences be what they may. Besides if I ever have a go round with it, then I’ll just call up the lawyer that can’t figure out how to pronounce my state.

 

[rick458]

AHenry : you nailed it Christophers is the place
the head waitress told us the place was haunted by the original home owners Daughter.
but I always go to Freebirds when in CS they say we may get one around Clear lake