O/T Texas

[InjectorTim]

Theoreticaly, if one was to move to Texas where in Texas would you recomend they move to? The person in this case would like someplace less humid than New Jersey(less rust).

[droplord49]

I live in Central Texas(right between Houston, Austin, and Dallas), It is humid nasty humid here, I would suggest north Texas like Lubbuck, Amarillo, etc.

[BARNETT]

It would depend on any number of things. Like...what you do for a living. What kind of money you want to make. Are you planning on going to school? San Antonio has cheap rent, cheap gas (comparitivey speaking), decent highways, great Tex-Mex food and low pay. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

[InjectorTim]

Another factor is the presence of a good hot rod community. shows, events, hambers, etc.

[AHotRod]

I'd come to the West-Coast of Florida http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

[InjectorTim]

I'm just looking for a general are of texas rather than a specific city.

[InjectorTim]

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I'd come to the West-Coast of Florida



[/ QUOTE ] No thanks, I'm kinda sick of the east coast,and I cant spend more than a week in california without getting depressed, The state pride in Texas appeals to me, it seems like a bad-ass state. I wanna punch people in the teeth when they bad mouth the Alamo! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[smittyshotrods]

Austin or Dallas for the car,music scene for sure. There are plenty of HAMBers in both places also but it is still hot in both places in the summer too.

[buzzard]

Yeah, I'm gonna need the names and addresses of these folks bad mouthing the Alamo.

[Sukie]

Austin or Dallas !!!! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[InjectorTim]

Thanks guys, New jersey is very humid so I'm shure i could put up with austin's humidity, although it would be nice to find the closest non-humid place to austin. and no one in peticular is bad-mouthing the Alamo, I just hear stories about texans getting violent when it is bad mouthed.

[du$ty]

ft.worth/dallas

[TP]

West of Abilene= no humidity. Odessa area 3" rain a year wether you need it or not.

[OGNC]

Funny that I am reading this while listening to a Regge version of Still is Still Moving To Me that Willie Nelson is actually SINGING on (it is on the radio). I think that all of that ganja and hot Texas sun have finally started to take their toll on him...

[BELLM]

Dallas, if you want a large city, always car stuff going on there. If your jobs allows, lots of nice small towns in Texas. Austin, San Antonio are great places, Kontinentals make Austin a cool car town. Guess it all depends on what you do for a living. Weather allows year round hot rod driving weather. Come on down!!! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[Crease]

There's like a 1000 HAMBers in SA........Actually, it's more like 5 now that I count!

San Antonio is a good place to live and the car scene is gettin better (still sucks at the moment). Gets twice as good the 3 times a year Barnett leaves the house. About 10 squares miles of it is great to raise a family in. The food cant be beat.

Austin is a great little town, but no one ever leaves. Makes it kinda hard to find a job for some folks.

I've always liked Dallas, but it definitely has the big city feel.

If you can find a job there, move to Kerville. Some of my favorite hot rodders live out there and it's beautiful.

[ChuckleHead_Al]

Texas is open to anyone, the humidity sucks really bad here, but I love San Antonio, it's my home, Austin, Dallas, Ft.Worth are bigger citties and better when it comes to music scenes. Dan's right,ya can't beat the food.. The ALAMOS a-callin'.......

[Revhead]

I lived in stephenville for 2 years and the humidity was very mild compared to dallas. and dallas is mild compared to college station. Granbury is a nice town with enough stuff not to be inconveniant, but not a big city. It's got a big historical downtown square, quite a few car shows a year and an actuall drive-in!

[TERPU]

Just moved home from Texas. I'm a real estate appraiser for a big bank. My territory included San Antonio, Houston, Austin, College Station, Corpus, Waco, Temple and My in laws live real close to Dallas. So in short I got to experience alot of Texas. Bitchin state with even better people. So for an un-biased opinion of somebody who wasn't born there(my family is from burk Burnette though). All these places are humid. This is a very minor drawback to a bitchin place. If I didn't lover the Pacific Ocean and my family so much I'd still be in Brenham. So get out the state map and throw a dart. Fools choice my friend and just be happy as if you had good sense because Texas is fun all over!

Tim

[modernbeat]

Crease, I left Austin. Sold my $140,000 house for $230,000 and hit the road!

Anyway, Austin has a very poor infastructure for building stuff. Want heavy equipment? There are a few retail guys that have a small selection of stuff, but unless you can buy it at Tractor Supply, figgure you'll be driving a while. There is no used market in industrial tools and supplies. Famous filmmaker Robert Rodriguez usually sets up a daily supply run to San Antonio and Houston when prop building or filming is underway. Property is outrageous and it's hard to pay for adaquate space. The flip side is that it's got the best weather and the best community. Music, music and more music, it's where the SXSW festival is held. Aside from the Kontinentals, there isn't a lot of traditional rodders, but there is so much bohemian culture it's worth many of the sacrifices. Jobs? Better start looking now - good ones seem few and far in between.

San Antonio - good industrial history, poor job market unless you are willing to be underpaid, lots and lots of car stuff - some of it traditional hot rod related, but most of it muscle car followed by lowrider and truck culture.

Dallas, my #1 choice, great job market, lots and lots and LOTS of car stuff going on - everything from stock car, sports car, traditional hot rodding, muscle cars, imports, amateur road racing, rally racing etc....and all the support network that's needed to supply all that. Easy to live in town around Mockingbird lake, or west of Downtown in the industrial area. Or live out of town in FtWorth, Plano, Ennis (by the dragstrip), or there are plenty of -bad- neighborhoods that are super cheap. Commuting is acceptable though the east west highways seem to be jammed up more often.

Houston - super industrial - tools are cheap. Neighborhoods are similar to Dallas except the suburbs are further out and the neiborhoods are even further away. Commuting is harder because the freeways are packed and the surface streets - with a few exceptions - don't go through.

Don't overlook some of the other potiental cities - Galveston, Corpus Christi, the Kerville - Fredricksburg hill country.

You could always live in the Texas city with the greatest concentration of HAMBERS. I think that 2% of the permanent population is on the HAMB. It's Marathon, Texas, the home of Foiled Again, Dan Picasso and his brother and pal.

[OutLaw]

If I was going to move here I'd pick , the hill country area San Antonio/Fredricksberg/Austin area. If I couldn't live there I'd look in the I-35 corridor area, San Antonio- Dallas, Fort Worth anywhere indetween there is nice area.

[CURIOUS RASH]

<font color="green">You could always move to Wellington, Texas.

Flat-Top Bob has a NICE house there he is practically giving away.

WAAAAAYYYY cheaper than you are used to I'm sure.

Of course, the pace of life would KILL you.

And, Bob has HOARDED everything worth owning in a tri-state area.

You could live like a KING there though.

If I had to move to Texas, it would probably be the Fort Worth area.

Maybe Austin, don't know, I've never been.



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[hankcash]

GO AWAY,,, we're full... http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

No just yanking the ol' crank there....

I love Dallas, but I love TEXAS even more....
I think that Kartbreaker will have a house up for sale soon.... http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/blush.gif
Ask him about the scene up there in the Falls.... http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

Dallas is great.
I have always loved Austin...
Steer away from Houston (sorry Modernbeat).. I have never liked Houston, but some of my best friends live there.....
O, by the way.... do you mind if it snows one day, is 100 degrees the next day, a tornado takes away your house and yer cousin can also be your wife?
And I almost forgot... bring your guns!!!!

HC

[Flexicoker]

Well, I think moving to Texas for the humidity is the WRONG reason, unless you like to be soaked in sweat within 2 minutes of going outside in July. But if you want to come to Texas for the nice people, good food, mild winters, hot women, well then that would be the right reason. I live in a suburb of Dallas and its pretty nice, far enough away to miss all the traffic and homeless people, but close enough to all the important downtown stuff (like the Coollows hang-out http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif) and there are alot of little suburbs like this around, and they are cool unless you really can't stand 16 year old girls driving around in new mustangs and lexuses (lexi?) that their parents bought them.

[Elrusto]

I'm partial to N.E. Texas. I live in Rockwall which is just east of Dallas, but looking at moving to Commerce or Cooper. Lots of trees in these parts, some really nice small towns too.

[maud]

You guys around San Antone and Austin don't know what humidity is! Try NE Texas in the pineywoods. I live at Maud,Tx (near Texarkana) very humid!!! But I like living here, especially in the winter. I would prefer to live in the hill country, but then I'd miss all the shade probably.

[Jester]

How bout Texarkana, not much of a Hot Rod community but it would be nice to import some people to start one. What about Denison, Tx. Oh I know you could move to Faulk Ar, still havn't found that damn monster from Boggy Creak yet. Ah shit what do I know. Roll'n

[D Picasso]

come to the Big Bend.....arguably the most beautiful place in Texas. nice skinny twisty roads, great weather with very little humidity, high altitude keeps us from becoming stinkin' filthy hot, no zoning laws in Marathon so you can build anything anywhere.

by the way....there's an old gas station on the west side of town right on HWY 90. it's for sale, has 3 double-length stalls, 2 hoists, a beam hoist capable of plucking a Cat diesel, huge air compressor and a half-acre out back with several tons of tin. there's more than enough room to live inside, and no laws prohibiting doing so.

70 grand.

[Antibilly]

Is TX the new Cali?.............. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/blush.gif

[Anderson]

...it's the new SoCal

[Johnny Ace]

Try Pflugerville...fun to say, and a great ditch for skate contests.....or Terlingua, where they used to dig up old Meskin graves for the gold teeth....try the Gulf Coast,where La Llorona lives.....

[wingnutz]

Don't move to any of the gulf cities in Texas..., "You will melt in the summer"!!!!

Austin, Hillcountry and San Antonio are by far the best places to live climate wise...!

Try Georgetown if you like the Burbs or Austin for city dwelling.

Dallas / Ft Worth areas can get cold in the winter and will take you forever to drive from one side of town to another...! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif

And yes the food is the Best!!! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Mark

[caddyman65]

If I could move anywhere it would be Texas,went for a weekend(Dallas, Austin) and had a blast and all the people I met at VLV that were from Texas were the fuckin nicest people I ever met...one day I`ll have to go to the Roundup

[lucky 7]

come to amarillo..we have,CADILLAC RANCH,cows ,dust dirt,grain elevators,steak,WIND,crime,route 66,and the highest teen pregnancy rate in texas.....i-40 goes right thru...most people stay on i-40....we have a few cars too...

[Antibilly]

fuck it...move to Florida its NEVER hunid here!!! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif

[rikaguilera]

The Texas Hill Country! That is all you have to know.

[repoguy]

Have you ever actually been to Texas?

[himmelberg]

Johnny, La Llarona lives in the ditch behind our school. Ask any DeZavala kid. himmelberg

[Johnny Ace]

No way,dude....I saw her in 1969,right here.....NO SHIT!
I think she travels.....

[TP]

Ya'll are leaving out all the good places. Try No trees, Gun barrel city, Cut and Shoot, Toad suck, Langtree, or any of the other nice places. Do you have a work visa? If you cross a river to get here you are a foreigner. It a great satate. I used to pipeline and worked in most all the other and always came back home.

[TexasHardcore]

Corpus Christi is nice, but humid. And no hot rod scene at all. I grew up there, and I'll be moving back in about a month for the summer. I think I'm the only HAMBer in that area.

Houston is cool. Don't know of many HAMBers in the area, but there's always stuff going on. Big city, everything is expensive there.

Waco..just plain fucking sucks. I live here in Waco now. It's not a bad drive to Austin or Dallas...equal in mileage either way. NO scene, NO music, bible thumpers &amp; cults seems to be the only thing popular here.

I'm planning to move up near Jollyville at the end of the summer. It's just north of Austin, where all the good shit is. If I start hanging out around Flyrite maybe they'll feel sorry for me and give me job (hint hint).

Austin is rad, I love that place more &amp; more everytime I go. 6th street is infamous, Continental Club is hands down the coolest place I've ever seen, HAMBers are all over the place, and the 9th street BMX trails are killer.

I don't know shit about DFW area, only been there a few times. Lots of HAMBers, lots of cars, lots of big buildings is all I know.

San Antonio is cool, I dig that town. 2 drag strips, although one is shot to hell. Riverwalk, The Alamo, Military Drive used to be cool when we'd go up there on the weekends...Seems to be some pretty bad ass HAMBers over there...

Anything south of San Antonio of Corpus won't have shit but dirt &amp; oil rigs, mostly border towns, but the RGV (Rio Grande Valley) has a pretty big amout of hot rod enthusiasts who get together frequently.

I don't know shit about anywhere else...but the smaller hill country towns are nice, and convieniently nestled in the hills, but still close to the bigger metro areas. If you're into river tubing, drinking beer, and nice country roads...that's the place to be.

Texans are stubborn, so be careful. We are known as "friendly people" but we're cautious of out-of-staters. After going on tour with a friend's band all over the east coast and central US, I've noticed that nobody waves to passing cars except in Texas. Be sure to wave back, or you can be chased down and forced to oblige with a pump-action pointed at your head.

One thing is for sure... I won't ever live in any other state, this place is a world of its own, and I'm one of many who are UBER-proud to call this piece of earth "HOME".

Good luck finding a place, and let us know when you get here and you'll have a warm welcome...


(P.S. - "Don't Mess With Texas")

[TexasHardcore]

Why is it when I post...the thread stops?

[Flexicoker]

[ QUOTE ]
(P.S. - "Don't Mess With Texas")

[/ QUOTE ]

You scared everyone away http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[Jester]

I think is just cause you answered the question so completely and no one had anything else to offer....I guess, I'm too lazy to read your whole reply so maybe I'm wrong http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif

[TexasHardcore]

Yeah...both of you bring up good points...haha

[Roothawg]

[ QUOTE ]
How bout Texarkana, not much of a Hot Rod community but it would be nice to import some people to start one. What about Denison, Tx. Oh I know you could move to Faulk Ar, still havn't found that damn monster from Boggy Creak yet. Ah shit what do I know. Roll'n

[/ QUOTE ]

Texarkana smells like Sulpher.....I lived there like 3 months. I'd ask people,"What is that smell?"......They would reply...What smell? Never mind you must be a native.

[antichrysler]

The Hill Country is Super nice but pricey. I'm not to keen on Dallas. Arlington is nice. It's cheaper than Dallas. There is a good car scene and You can drive to Fort Worth or Dallas for work.

Fort worth is sooo much better than Dallas. Dallas is NOT Texas. Dallas is a yuppie filled, status oriented, chip on its shoulder, cocain and boob job haven, that like to pretend its a big city.

If'n you like Texas Culture and easy going friendly people, don't move to Dallas.

I live here. I know. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[30roadster]

I love the bumper stickers that read "Keep Austin Weird"
Austin is tops on my list...

They close off 6th street for a serious street party every halloween. We went one year with a big group of people. Had a gal with us dressed as a bag of jelly beans. she was wearing a clear plastic bag with ballons blown up inside it.
all up and down the street were hot chicks dressed as S&amp;M dominatrix... you would squeeze between people and they would swat you with a riding crop and call you a bad boy.... every imaginable costume you could think of was there.

There are no porta potties put up so if you want to go you have to pay a cover charge and wait in line at a bar. We got tired of waiting and so went into an alley as a group. Gals on one side of a dumpster and guys on another. Out of the blue these bright blinding lights come on. The girls are screaming trying to get dressed. The gal with the jelly beans was noticeably slow. We are hammered and trying to figure out what is going on... our eyes adjust and some guy with a video camera has a white t-shirt he wrote on with a black magic marker that reads " K-FUC TV" he's videotaping women as they try to pee. We had to zip up and chase him away.

So the bathroom continued to be a problem. My friend found an interesting solution. We were walking through the crowd packed together like sardines. My friend was in front of me and we were following a guy dressed as a large tampon. He had rolled himself up in white foam bedding and had tied himself in with thick nylon rope. Nice little arm holes and a hole for his face. To add some form of authenticity he painted the bottom of his costume red. I look down and see my friend with a big grin on his face. I start wondering what exactly he is up to. suddenly i hear a giant tampon shout out hey...HEY! and begin to chase my friend through the crowd. Apparently tampons don't like to be peed on. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Viva Austin!

[wingnutz]

Hey Kyle

Kindof reminded you of "Summerfest" in Milwacky didn't it...? http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

WACO stands for "We Ain't Coming Out"...!!! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[InjectorTim]

I have been to Texas a few times and loved it, thnaks for your overwhelming amount of help, I really appreciated it. All theese places sound good. The biggest conflict is that us New jersey Devils all deep down love New jersey, and once you leave you're not welcome back. I have time to decide though, gots to get college out of the way first.

[Ham]

Have several friends from Texas and they've been some of the coolest laid back people. Definitely have had a good impression. Considered moving there myself, houses are cheaper compared to here...

[Flexicoker]

Houses are crazy cheaper than Cali for sure, my grandparents bought a 2 bedroom nice single story house in Simi for over $300,000. The same house here would be no more than half that garaunteed. Although prices everywhere are going up they are still pretty decent here.

[HonkyTonker]

Good reading.. Can't wait! 3 weeks and counting!

Buster