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Deborah Leigh said...Those are some of the reasons to bail from California. Now if I could only find a job in a small Texas town not to far from the ocean. Suggestions and offers gratefully accepted. The only draw back is my aversion to scorpions and snakes.
"Not too far from the ocean" presents it's own set of problems on the Gulf shore. Galveston "Island" is nice, but it's a big sand bar, basically - as folks found out during the 1900 hurricane...
Houston is a big city, and not far from the gulf. Likewise Corpus Christi, if you don't mind living in a city named "the body of Christ" in Spanish.
Anything south of that is too close to Mexico for comfort.
Deborah -- it sort of depends on what you do. Also, Texas and California do have one thing in common: rapid transition to bilingualism. Having a few words of Spanish will help, even at Republican Party headquarters, especially in south Texas.
Scorpions are kept at bay by proper lawn, garden, and house maintenance. We have a lot fewer of them than we did, because the fire ants eat them :-) Snakes, well, you'll just have to adjust a bit, and learn the differences among the types -- not all, or even most, of them are dangerous, and many are your friends, or at least allies against mice &ct.
Glad to have you, so long as you can make and keep a resolution: every time you ask "why doesn't Texas have [XX]?" where [XX] is some California commonplace, the answer is "we don't do that here." We also don't much appreciate folks whose ambition is to Californicate the place.
There's pretty much the same language barrier between downstate Illinois, and Chicago.
ReplyDeleteThe meaning of "dude" is quite different, for one.
ReplyDeleteCalifornia: Big Oil
ReplyDeleteTexas: jobs
Deborah Leigh said...Those are some of the reasons to bail from California. Now if I could only find a job in a small Texas town not to far from the ocean. Suggestions and offers gratefully accepted. The only draw back is my aversion to scorpions and snakes.
ReplyDelete"Not too far from the ocean" presents it's own set of problems on the Gulf shore. Galveston "Island" is nice, but it's a big sand bar, basically - as folks found out during the 1900 hurricane...
ReplyDeleteHouston is a big city, and not far from the gulf. Likewise Corpus Christi, if you don't mind living in a city named "the body of Christ" in Spanish.
Anything south of that is too close to Mexico for comfort.
Deborah -- it sort of depends on what you do. Also, Texas and California do have one thing in common: rapid transition to bilingualism. Having a few words of Spanish will help, even at Republican Party headquarters, especially in south Texas.
ReplyDeleteScorpions are kept at bay by proper lawn, garden, and house maintenance. We have a lot fewer of them than we did, because the fire ants eat them :-) Snakes, well, you'll just have to adjust a bit, and learn the differences among the types -- not all, or even most, of them are dangerous, and many are your friends, or at least allies against mice &ct.
Glad to have you, so long as you can make and keep a resolution: every time you ask "why doesn't Texas have [XX]?" where [XX] is some California commonplace, the answer is "we don't do that here." We also don't much appreciate folks whose ambition is to Californicate the place.
Regards,
Ric