California costs too much! Let's compare it to Texas

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40. Spent a year at Ft. Hood Texas in 1970

Was really happy to get out of there even back then.

That did seem to be a prettier part of the state...around Uvalde. A lot of the state has some pretty sad looking smaller towns. I thought I should swing through Pecos, Texas...because when I was a kid, I remember watching that cartoon where Pecos Bill(?) Had his sweetheart bouncing on her balloon bun out of reach. Sticks in my head even at 74😁. Very sad town. Scared me, it looked like something out of Grapes of Wrath.

I live down in central Mexico now. Live well, enjoy the weather all year round, have good hard working and decent neighbors, and the food, drink and music are the best. Got priced out of the Northwest. Can live very well on $3000 a month down here. It barely covered my rent and utilities up north. I don't worry about going to the store, the movies, church, sending my kids to school or going out for an evening. I worry about the US being the ONLY country on earth where you aren't sure you are going to see each other again when you step outside the door because of some sick bastard with a gun.