He’s NOT wrong…
Hey New Yorkers. I heard you’re probably going to get an outright communist as your mayor. Zohran Mamdani sounds like a real peach, and the fact that he won the Democrat Primary and is well on his way to the mayor’s office has made many of you fire up your Zillow account and start looking for homes out of state.
I don’t blame you, but let me offer you some advice. You’re probably going to be tempted to come to Texas because so many companies have moved here, and you feel like you could easily land a job. I could see why you’d think that, but let me tell you about Texas.
You really don’t want to move here. Texas is like Hell, only worse, because the living conditions here are so chaotic and difficult that the devil himself thinks it’s a bit much.
Full article, HERE from RedState
Of course he’s a bit nicer than most of us, because the FIRST thing we’ll tell you is we do not want your attitudes or your ‘beliefs’ here. We believe in freedom of expression, honest conversations, and still do handshake deals for millions of dollars out here.
And just because folks live in a ‘rural’ area, doesn’t mean they are poor or dumb… A lot of the ‘little towns’ in Texas have major money management company offices in them, because people have money, serious money. And smart people… VERY smart people.
And those ‘dirty’ men and women you look down on are the ones that drill, pump, and process that oil you need to survive. And that old man in the overalls, broke down straw hat, and run down boots, sitting at the corner table in the local diner can buy and sell you…
Yep, the weather is ‘interesting’, but it keeps things lively… And you can see it coming! If you grew up surrounded by trees, or big buildings, you won’t like the ‘big sky’ out here!
Other than that, it’s a great place to live!!!
h/t Guy for the link
Re poor rural people: My mom told the story of a shirttail relation who ran a “starvation” sheep ranch in Wyoming. Trying to make the ranch more profitable he decided to drill a water well. He found no water but hit natural gas instead.
Anyway, said sheep rancher retained his sheep rancher ways (after all it was what he was) regardless of his new found wealth. Visiting Salt Lake City on business he went to one of the more prestigious hotels. The desk clerk was a bit condescending, and suggested this roughhewn man in his working clothes might find a nearby hotel more affordable. Mr. Rancher bristled and said “Sonny, I can buy this hotel and fire your sorry ass.” About this time, the hotel manager came by: “Yes sir Mr. Rancher we have you room all ready for you, please come with me.”
The moral of the story: Never judge a Westerner (or a southerner) by his clothing or language, you may looking for a new job.
This sort of thing doesn’t only happen in the West and South; my wife’s family came from the Baltic immigrant section of Brockton, MA. One fellow in that community built up a t-shirt printing business and then bought ownership shares in several other apparel businesses, up-market and otherwise. Basically if it had a fad design on it and was on a rack in any of the tourist traps along Cape Cod and the southern coast, then you were probably paying him a couple of bucks.
He enjoyed the “boating life” and almost always wore shorts, a patterned short sleeve shirt, and sandals. Everywhere. He decided to buy his sales fleet 5 new Lincolns, walked onto a dealership in Falmouth and told the sales guy on the lot he had picked out “these five right here.” The salesman looked at him incredulously and asked him how he intended to pay. Mr. [K] pulled out his checkbook and a pen from his shorts pocket. The sales guy tells him, “Would you mind if we call your bank first to make sure it would clear?”
The lady at the bank told the salesman “Be *very* nice to Mr. [K.] Yes this check would clear. He could also buy your entire dealership and the dealership across the street and that check would clear too.”
Hey Old NFO,
I don’t mind them moving away from NYC, as long as they don’t vote their voting pattern in their new state. That is what put them in that mess to begin with.
Trite, but elections have consequences.
Anxious New Yorkers: You Should Avoid Alaska at All Costs
My good friend and colleague Brandon Morse has presented some cautions about New Yorkers thinking of coming to his home state of Texas; he makes some excellent arguments.
But he ends with this sentence:
Go to Alaska, they’ve got a ton of room up there.
https://redstate.com/wardclark/2025/06/26/anxious-new-yorkers-you-should-avoid-alaska-at-all-costs-n2190936
Don’t come to Kentucky, you won’t like it.
You end up cutting grass twice a week for 9 or 10 months a year.
If you didn’t have allergies before, you will after two weeks from the grass pollen.
Sinkholes will eat your car. Maybe your house.
Horses are pretty but horse flies and manure are not and your neighbors will be glad to share.
You must be a basketball fan. UK for sure, Louisville (pronounced Lulvul) if you must. Your taxes are based on how much basketball paraphernalia you own , the more the better. You will be fined if you do not own a basketball and have a court somewhere on your property.
People will not understand your northern accent. You will be the one who talks funny, bless your heart.
You can only buy legal alcohol in about 1/4 of the counties. You can get moonshine anywhere in the state.
You really would like Florida better.
Good luck.
No! NO!! Do NOT go to Florida! Don’t you ever read all those FloridaMan stories?
Brad Slager offers more reasons not to come to Florida.
https://redstate.com/bradslager/2025/06/28/for-new-yorkers-looking-to-flee-a-cautionary-warning-florida-is-not-the-paradise-you-may-envision-n2191005?utm_source=pjmedia&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&bcid=0d19dc23f774082d650f437294753b163e9da0fe355d90f1a6037ec36f1fb94b&lctg=28424043
I spent my childhood in Texas and I’ve been trying to get back ever since. But having lived there and elsewhere, I can say that culture shock is real and it doesn’t just happen when you move between countries. New Yorkers and Californians would be happier where they are.
Aw Jeez Jim, don’t send ’em down here in Florida. We got enough problems with the new yawk commie crats that are already here. Pretty soon, they’ll be voting for gun bans, castrating all of our cops and “trans’ing” our kids.
Make ’em stay up there in the socialist paradise that they all voted for.
I have some relatives that spent years with terrible allergies every Spring, which sometimes required a visit to the doctor. When they cut down their treasured cedar trees, most of their problems disappeared.
It’s bad enough dealing with all the other pollens, fire ants, mosquitoes, deer flies, high heat with humidity, summer deluges that flood the road, freezes that rival the Arctic, and ignorant refugees from blue states.
Don’t even let the word “Nevada” cross your lips as a target for displaced “New Yawkah’s”.
Hot. Dry. Windy. Dusty. 99% of the state. Except where California touches us. Bad touch, too. Fuel prices are going up because of California prices.
Where I live, I’ve to two choices for groceries: Walmart and Expensive.
Did I mention hot, dry, windy and dusty?
And may I point out that environmentally and geographically Canada is more similar than either Texas or Florida? And Canada is a shorter drive than Texas or Florida. Make an appropriate decision in your travel plans, New York.
All- Thanks for the comments and yes, Moses, THAT is a good one!!!
Nothing says the People of Texas (or the other blessed states south of the Mason and Dixon Line) HAVE to sell to or rent to any of ‘those’ that come down from that cesspool of NY. …jus sayin…..
I think Texas is a great place to move to. Plenty of room; great folks.
I would note, it might not be the subjects that are entirely responsible for the votes/polices, fraud hypothesis.
But, yes, for anyone who actually thought any Democrat official of the last twenty years was a positive, I am inclined to not prefer them as neighbors.
I was looking up the North Slope of Alaska this morning. West of ANWR has some possibilities.
(The census designated section south of the North Slope, to me is very suggestive of census fruad between 2010 and 2020, in support of election fraud. But, more broadly within Alaska I could believe that a lot of Mexicans have moved there.)
Distances across the artic sea are quite short, compared to the pacific.
We could relocate quite a bit of east and west coast city population to a line of walkable 15 minute cities along the northern coast of Alaska and Canada, transhipping a rich artic sea trade with Europe.
In additional to being walkable in 15 minutes, we could build the cities from the ground up for Electric Vehicle traffic. EV chargers, all generation capacity from solar and wind, etc.
Would be an extremely fast route to carbon net zero, and is maybe even the single most practical and feasible way of accomplishing that.
Could probably also make the ideal place for the Palestinians, Iranians, Russians, Han, and the Mexican cartels to live together side by side in complete peace.
But it would be funnier to just directly dig a mass grave for all of the enviromentalists in ANWR itself.
(With apologies to folks who live on the east and west coasts.)
The old folks in the local diner wearing boots and overalls that date to the disco era probably have more money than the pope.
Being a former Californian, my education came when having lunch in one of those diners, sitting next to a table full of those old guys. Complaining about the drop in oil prices, one of them griped about how the oil company lowered their lease on his land to “only” $13k per month…
They don’t want to move to Texas. They want to move to Austin, which is basically Trenton with fewer Priuses and more pickup trucks.
Don’t come to Arizona either. There is so much grass in Phoenix and Tucson your allergies will as bad as up north, and we have jumping cholla that will attach a spike-covered hotdog to you if you even think about brushing by. Saguaros are pretty but they are only in the south and below about 3,400 ft.
Then there are the gila monsters, snakes, scorpions of many sizes, giant centipedes, and sounders of javelina (our own version of killer boars). In the uplands we have bears that have killed humans and mountain lions.
I was raised on Long Island, N.Y. and have spent 40 or so years in Alaska. I have cousins who lived in the town Texas AandM is located in but I never got down there to visit. One of my grand daughters lives in SanAntonio Texas and her significant other just happens to e Vietnamese ! They have a nice semi rural house and have chickens. She’s doing fine despite an Alaskan upbringing!
Used to be bumper stickers in the early 80’s around DFW that said , “Love NY ? Take I 30 East” . I don’t go back to Dallas or Austin , I am planning a trip to San Angelo sometime this summer . Maybe go to Glenrose and walk in some dinosaur tracks . Too old to go tubin , that was fun. I love Texas still , but man it has changed .
I’m so glad I don’t live in NYC anymore. I’m been living happily in a suburb of Dallas for 20 years.
Your comments re: Texas are answered by any five minutes of Billy Bob Thornton laying out the facts of life to anyone else on Landman.
You can also get that from Tommy Lee Jones, Powers Boothe, Matthew McConaughey, the Quaid brothers, Rip Torn, et al in several notable flicks.
There’s just a certain indelible amount of Texas that always shines out, even from actors, that surpasses an essay, and does so despite their declared political persuasion.
Damn, y’all are on a roll! 🙂