Well, okay, I'm actually going to have to post a thoughtful reply to this, aren't I? I mean, I assume this is because you're thinking of applying here and nothing related to the serious annoyance that is my state's electoral vote. Okay, then.
Texas is my home country. I feel, and always have felt, more strongly patriotic toward Texas than I do toward America. So obviously, I'm rather fond of it. Looking at it objectively... let me try and give you some good points and some bad points. And I'll try to be sorta Houston-specific.
Bad points? Well, obviously, we've got more than our share of rednecks and right-wing weirdos, often the same people. We keep electing Tom DeLay, God alone knows why. Our public transportation system sucks dogs for quarters, and people keep running their cars into the light rail trains. For that matter, private transportation sucks pretty much too, given that every major freeway is in fact a parking lot in disguise. Our understanding of the concept "red light" could use a little work. It rains. It floods. It gets really hot and humid and nasty. We have bigass mosquitoes, and some of them have West Nile. We have satanic Brazilian fireants the size of poodles (all right, not really, but a bite off one of them hurts like shit).
Good points? We've got more than our share of good folks, too; Texas is so ridiculously outsized that we've got room for more than our share of everything. People are friendly. People, most of the time, will help out a stranger. We have amazing Mexican, Tex-Mex, Chinese, Vietnamese, Thai, Iranian, you-name-it restaurants, in addition to the best chicken-fried steak in the nation. Houston, and the Rice campus in particular, are full of trees and, in the springtime, azaleas. The winter is less extreme here (this might be good news for you, no?). Rice is often reminiscent of Hogwarts, albeit with more engineers. Sometimes the rain is nice. Most of the mosquitoes don't have West Nile. There's nothing like a good Aggie joke.
So, basically... well, that's what I think, basically. The selling points of my fine homeland.
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Date: 2004-11-03 03:59 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-11-04 08:08 pm (UTC)Hi. And also, no bullshit.
Date: 2004-11-03 05:51 am (UTC)Re: Hi. And also, no bullshit.
Date: 2004-11-04 08:24 pm (UTC)Texas is my home country. I feel, and always have felt, more strongly patriotic toward Texas than I do toward America. So obviously, I'm rather fond of it. Looking at it objectively... let me try and give you some good points and some bad points. And I'll try to be sorta Houston-specific.
Bad points? Well, obviously, we've got more than our share of rednecks and right-wing weirdos, often the same people. We keep electing Tom DeLay, God alone knows why. Our public transportation system sucks dogs for quarters, and people keep running their cars into the light rail trains. For that matter, private transportation sucks pretty much too, given that every major freeway is in fact a parking lot in disguise. Our understanding of the concept "red light" could use a little work. It rains. It floods. It gets really hot and humid and nasty. We have bigass mosquitoes, and some of them have West Nile. We have satanic Brazilian fireants the size of poodles (all right, not really, but a bite off one of them hurts like shit).
Good points? We've got more than our share of good folks, too; Texas is so ridiculously outsized that we've got room for more than our share of everything. People are friendly. People, most of the time, will help out a stranger. We have amazing Mexican, Tex-Mex, Chinese, Vietnamese, Thai, Iranian, you-name-it restaurants, in addition to the best chicken-fried steak in the nation. Houston, and the Rice campus in particular, are full of trees and, in the springtime, azaleas. The winter is less extreme here (this might be good news for you, no?). Rice is often reminiscent of Hogwarts, albeit with more engineers. Sometimes the rain is nice. Most of the mosquitoes don't have West Nile. There's nothing like a good Aggie joke.
So, basically... well, that's what I think, basically. The selling points of my fine homeland.
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Date: 2004-11-03 09:07 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2004-11-04 08:08 pm (UTC)