Weird about my feelings for Texas. I didn't think much of it, and then went off to college in northern Cal and frankly didn't make the best of it.
I came back to law school at UT and suddenly felt grounded, like I belonged. It was the Austin before Austin got big and it just seemed like everyone was on the same page and it was my page.
Fast forward and I'm in Dallas and I am very fond of Dallas. I live near the lake and I bike on the trails so it feels like I'm outside a lot given the way the weather is getting. And the cooler neighborhoods in Dallas are great. I feel like it's my town, but the border to my town is pretty close in.
But I feel a closer bond with Washington DC than I do with Garland or Plano or Allen. And really with any large city. With climate change alone, I'd move if I could. Keeping me here - the grandson in Allen, TX.
I feel for you younger folks who still need to make your career and raise your families. I can see how it would really hurt to the state turning into something you didn't think it would.
I don't hate the folks who more here because it's friendlier to what they believe in and not what I believe in. They need a place to be. But life is short, and there are nicer places to be.
I'm okay with them changing the definition of what I thought it was to be Texan.