Being in a liberal city in a horribly red state doesn’t protect residents from the cruelty of said state. It doesn’t stop the racial profiling intended to terrorize immigrant/mixed stays families, it doesn’t re-attract healthcare workers, it doesn’t prevent kids getting harassed for their pronouns in schools. In many places, Texas makes laws that takes away power from it’s more liberal areas, like how Houston schools have been taken over by the state, or how Denton can’t ban fracking in its city limits. Also, Texas doesn’t have a ton of public lands (state/national parks) for people to use. But what people lose by moving to a state like Texas, they gain in so many new experiences: being sued by anyone and everyone for abortions, waiting for hours to vote, the glorification of guns, legislators arguing to put the 10 commandments in every classroom in the state, $7.25 minimum wage (hell, again, the state doesn’t even allow cities to set higher minimum wages within their limits), right to work/get fired, an electric grid not up to federal standards, and so much more. But yeah, the BBQ is really fucking good. And the fresh flour tortillas, those are amazing. I wish I had a Chuy’s nearby…
Yeah. I don’t want to live there, but if my company wants to tax shelter there and fly me in occasionally for Franklin brisket and La BBQ everything else, that would be perfectly fine. The state will hopefully improve in time.
Being in a liberal city in a horribly red state doesn’t protect residents from the cruelty of said state. It doesn’t stop the racial profiling intended to terrorize immigrant/mixed stays families, it doesn’t re-attract healthcare workers, it doesn’t prevent kids getting harassed for their pronouns in schools. In many places, Texas makes laws that takes away power from it’s more liberal areas, like how Houston schools have been taken over by the state, or how Denton can’t ban fracking in its city limits. Also, Texas doesn’t have a ton of public lands (state/national parks) for people to use. But what people lose by moving to a state like Texas, they gain in so many new experiences: being sued by anyone and everyone for abortions, waiting for hours to vote, the glorification of guns, legislators arguing to put the 10 commandments in every classroom in the state, $7.25 minimum wage (hell, again, the state doesn’t even allow cities to set higher minimum wages within their limits), right to work/get fired, an electric grid not up to federal standards, and so much more. But yeah, the BBQ is really fucking good. And the fresh flour tortillas, those are amazing. I wish I had a Chuy’s nearby…
Yeah. I don’t want to live there, but if my company wants to tax shelter there and fly me in occasionally for Franklin brisket and La BBQ everything else, that would be perfectly fine. The state will hopefully improve in time.