Where is everyone from?
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Hey there!! Some of us have our locations in our profile. If you visit my profile, you'll be able to see I'm from Tennessee. 😉
We have people from all over the world here, which is one of the things I love most about BB.
We have people from all over the world here, which is one of the things I love most about BB.
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Hey there! Welcome to to the boards! I'm American and originally from Chicago.
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Originally, the land of Captain Picard and the Doctor. Well, Patrick Stewart and Jodie Whittaker. In theory, I should sound quite a lot like her. I don't. 😀 Also the home of David Brown, a famous person, and most are at best probably only familiar with his initials not his name. He's the DB from the Aston Martin DB series. Now points east of there.
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Oh England, i went to London once its great!
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I was born in Texas and spent my first 16 years there, both urban and rural (which are quite different from one another). After that I've lived on the Pacific west coast, mostly in California. I still visit family in Texas and it's likely I will one day return there.
wolfheart
Texas nice place to live?
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I live in the Netherlands in Culemborg born and raised in Leerdam, fascinated by english and american culture.
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Not just England, but literally where those people are from!
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@wolfheart
I'd say Texas is pretty nice, but I'd have to warn about the heat and humidity that many from colder climes would find difficult. It can exceed 100 Farenheit/38 Celsius. Winters have been brutal on occasion and I remember having to help heat the pipes manually so they wouldn't freeze.
Getting to the coastal regions you can be hit by severe flooding (if you buy property down there, buy it on top of a hill!) and hurricanes battering cities like Houston.
Ah, fire ants, an insect I would annihilate if I could. Growing up in the rural regions I also learned to shake my shoes or boots before putting them on in case a scorpion got into them (though this never happened in the cities as far as I know).
That aside, the rural regions can be beautiful while the cities are as cosmopolitan as any other cities in the US. Last time I went, prices were about half of what they were in California (in the rural regions, I didn't visit any real cities). Jobs seem relatively plentiful.
Perhaps I should also add that I looked up crime statistics and saw around where I live the small towns can rival a city in violent crime, but I never actually noticed that while I was there (living or visiting). Houston used to be really bad with crime, I don't know how it is now as I understand it has gone through a lot of changes in the last 20 years.
Texas is larger than plenty of countries, and as such it has radically different climates. East Texas is mostly wooded with plenty of swampy regions (though plenty drained off for towns and farms) and considered part of the South while West Texas is drier and holds the desert Texas is famous for, and considered part of the West. The "Texas Triangle" is its own world of various Texas cities connected by highways that form a triangle that includes Dallas, Houston, Austin, and San Antonio.
Interesting enough, Texas in general leans conservative (much less so in urban areas, as to be expected) but its capital city of Austin instead leans liberal, or that was the case the last time I checked.
Texas laws have changed along with the rest of the nation, more or less, but despite some child safety laws, I believe mutton bustin is still a sport, which is little boys and little girls riding sheep rodeo style (sometimes with a little cowboy hat rather than a helmet). I just tried to find a mutton bustin vid but they were either too long or too vague. Just imagine little kids holding onto a sheep that is running and sometimes bucking. That went on at the Astrodome in Houston (though I think the Astrodome has banned it since), and I was on a trailride headed that way, and been to one rodeo there as a child.
Something that I find surprises many people is that Texas tends to be tech savvy, hosting many tech centers in addition to NASA. Though where my family lives in the rural region it's hard to get a signal online with plenty still using sat dishes instead of internet to get movies.
I'd say Texas is pretty nice, but I'd have to warn about the heat and humidity that many from colder climes would find difficult. It can exceed 100 Farenheit/38 Celsius. Winters have been brutal on occasion and I remember having to help heat the pipes manually so they wouldn't freeze.
Getting to the coastal regions you can be hit by severe flooding (if you buy property down there, buy it on top of a hill!) and hurricanes battering cities like Houston.
Ah, fire ants, an insect I would annihilate if I could. Growing up in the rural regions I also learned to shake my shoes or boots before putting them on in case a scorpion got into them (though this never happened in the cities as far as I know).
That aside, the rural regions can be beautiful while the cities are as cosmopolitan as any other cities in the US. Last time I went, prices were about half of what they were in California (in the rural regions, I didn't visit any real cities). Jobs seem relatively plentiful.
Perhaps I should also add that I looked up crime statistics and saw around where I live the small towns can rival a city in violent crime, but I never actually noticed that while I was there (living or visiting). Houston used to be really bad with crime, I don't know how it is now as I understand it has gone through a lot of changes in the last 20 years.
Texas is larger than plenty of countries, and as such it has radically different climates. East Texas is mostly wooded with plenty of swampy regions (though plenty drained off for towns and farms) and considered part of the South while West Texas is drier and holds the desert Texas is famous for, and considered part of the West. The "Texas Triangle" is its own world of various Texas cities connected by highways that form a triangle that includes Dallas, Houston, Austin, and San Antonio.
Interesting enough, Texas in general leans conservative (much less so in urban areas, as to be expected) but its capital city of Austin instead leans liberal, or that was the case the last time I checked.
Texas laws have changed along with the rest of the nation, more or less, but despite some child safety laws, I believe mutton bustin is still a sport, which is little boys and little girls riding sheep rodeo style (sometimes with a little cowboy hat rather than a helmet). I just tried to find a mutton bustin vid but they were either too long or too vague. Just imagine little kids holding onto a sheep that is running and sometimes bucking. That went on at the Astrodome in Houston (though I think the Astrodome has banned it since), and I was on a trailride headed that way, and been to one rodeo there as a child.
Something that I find surprises many people is that Texas tends to be tech savvy, hosting many tech centers in addition to NASA. Though where my family lives in the rural region it's hard to get a signal online with plenty still using sat dishes instead of internet to get movies.