>>214127608
some of it is. houston and austin are better than you'd expect but they're so damn spread out. the whole "we're TEXANS we're DIFFERENT" culture is mostly larping but it's a little real. everything genuinely is bigger in texas, the saying's just true. hot as shit though. east texas is bayou-type places, swamps, forests, green, and west texas is desert and grassland. the desert parts of west texas are strange places to live in. dusty all the fucking time. hot all the fucking time. always bright. always still. when sound comes it comes roaring. poverty, old white people sitting on porches, mexicans mowing grass and unloading trucks. pretty, though. the desert rocks at sunset are gorgeous. sometimes when it finally rains bright flowers pop up in the desert. the land around the rivers is lean and lush simultaneously, finely muscled. mostly sucks. but generally speaking in the places where most of the people are it's cool.