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StellaBlue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-09-06 01:31 AM
Response to Reply #71
81. I don't know about that
Edited on Thu Mar-09-06 01:32 AM by StellaBlue
Hate to have to say it, but Texas is bigger than France. We are the second most populous state in the Union. We have mountains, deserts, plains, lakes, cities, thick ancient forests, beaches, hills, and about half the US border with Mexico, which makes for a very diverse place. We have three of the largest cities in the United States and some of the smallest rural hamlets. We have cowboys and investment bankers and big-haired ladies who lunch and dred-locked hippies and soccer moms and Cajuns.

And, yes, I would think that if someone spent five days in Texas, and, especially if they visited several, diverse areas of the state (as I visited the Lower East side and Upper East side, basement record stores and Sak's, dimly lit Indian restaurants and Times Square), that, yes, their opinion would be just that: a real opinion.

I don't know why a few people (who insist on continuing to post here even though they claim they are uninterested in my comments) seem to think that they are the center of the universe. Like I said, I can hate Texas with the best of them. But I've realized, too, that, essentially, people around the world come in the same basic sizes and types, scattered about randomly. There are probably an equal number of assholes in New York and Dallas.

I am a very educated, thoughtful, political person. But I am not pretentious. I also don't need external verification of my choices in life. I know what I like. And I like Austin a million times more than New York.
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