Midland in West Texas is a conservative area you would be more comfortable in with respect to ‘temperatures below freezing’. The coldest it gets there is only a couple of degrees below freezing for a couple of months.

move to the area just north and west of Houston. True it is a little wetter than California (except right now we are in a drought). But it hardly ever freezes. The people are great. The food is fantastic. We have all the major sports teams here, we have great colleges and arts and museums and such.

You can get a lot of nice land, still pretty cheap in between Katy Texas and College Station, or the town of Brenham. Nice rural values, but not far from the big city.

I’ve lived in Texas three times, and this time I might become a Naturalized Texan. I was never so proud as when Houstonians took in the refugees from Hurricane Katrina, and we referred to them as “our new neighbors”. And though we got pasted by Hurricane Ike last year, within hours neighbors with chainsaws cleared the roads in our subdivision, began to cut people out of their houses if they’d been hit by too many trees, and for us, came with tarps to cover our roof. We don’t wait for FEMA down here.

Folks here is frien’ly, y’all.

One warning - a friend who lived in the Panhandle said that every house has a small hole in the front door. When asked what it was for, he said it is a crowbar hole. Every day, you stick a crowbar handle through that little hole. If the crowbar bends, it’s too windy to go outside.

but if you’re looking for a good conservative area with great weather (15-20 deg cooler than Phoenix, 15 degrees warmer than Flagstaff, with 4 seasons), great scenery, not too big but not too small, 100 miles from a big city (Phoenix), 100 miles from the most majestic locale in the continental 48 (Grand Canyon), a day’s drive from the beaches of SoCal, and lots of houses for sale MUCH cheaper than a few years ago, you just can’t beat Prescott, Arizona. Oh, and home of the World’s Oldest Rodeo and the site where Barry Goldwater kicked off the ‘64 campaign. The only downside is there’s not a lot of industry here, but since you’re a computer consultant you probably generate most of your business online anyway, so does it really matter where you live from a work perspective?

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of course Austin is nearby and kind of weird, but has some nice things too. The best city is San Antonio.

and that’s a long drive from downtown. It’s not a long drive for me, since I live in Spring. I have never seen so many roads that don’t connect until I moved to Spring.

north of Brookshire for those of us who don’t want to drive downtown. Information is at http://www.KatyTea.com.

Besides, HPV Vaccine is so 2006. Merck really worked hard to convince him to back it, even with inconclusive proof.

BTW, Perry has mobilized Texas National guard troops to the Border. That shoots down the myth of not protecting the border

To the prior poster, is Ms Medina getting the support of more reliable republican counties, like Wilson or Guadelupe?

3rd, huge business tax which increased substantially small business’ taxes, without decreasing homeowner’s tax at all.

What are you talking about?
Gov. Perry Signs Legislation to Cut Taxes for Texas Small Business Owners
http://governor.state.tx.us/news/press-release/12565/

He’s talking about te franchise tax that was heavily modified (by Perry) in 2006. These modifications made the tax apply to small businesses where it didn’t before. In fact, this is the tax that Perry cut in the article you quoted.

And if I recall correctly “closing loopholes in the business tax” was a priority for Perry in 2006. He called several special sessions to get it passed.

kyle8 is right - Texas is a vast hell hole full of ugly women, gun toting rednecks and we ride our horses to work. Work - we slop the pigs and skin the chickens all day. Mexicants - we have millions of em…..
Why you have to learn how to speak Mexican down here in this hell hole. Houses? What are those? We just roll out our knap sack at night. We don’t sleep much because it is 110 degrees all the time.

only thing good is the sports page, and I rarely have time

and pro choice, to boot.