When my wife and I travel abroad we just say we're from Texas lol

One of my cousins married a man from New Zealand (1955). Many of his family and friends came to Austin for the wedding. We exposed them to Texan culture including food and even a nearby rodeo . The New Zealanders were quite surprised at the opening rodeo festivities when the audience politely clapped as the cowgirls rode about with the American flag, but were wildly demonstrative, hooting, yelling whistling, etc. when the cowgirls rode by displaying the flag of Texas...says it all.

Until they need government aid when there power grid goes down.

I was in Japan and when people asked where I was from I would say Texas while other Americans would say the U.S. and some of the Japanese caught on to it. "wait he says the state and you say the country."

It was its own country before becoming a state.

When has it not?

We should take back more of Mexico

They’d probably just join us, Texans and Oklahomans are basically cousins, and I’m not just saying that because I’m Texan and my cousins are literally from Oklahoma

It would still be smaller than Alaska afterwards 😂

No that's NM (hint: History)

I grew up in Abilene in the 90s and 00s, and my whole life it seemed like it hovered around 90,000. I hated Abilene because it felt like there was nothing to do. 90,000 people isn't enough to get really cool stuff going, and the conservative nature of the city wasn't helping. Now, Abilene has grown 30,000 people in ten years and every time I visit my folks I can feel it. Being in my mid-30s I actually want my old, boring Abilene back. I really miss it, even though I took it for granted when I was young. This population growth is crazy. And scary.

New braunfels?

@@buckleupteddy Georgetown

I here ya. Im from Frisco TX and we thought we were big time when we got a McDonalds in the early 90s. Now Frisco is just one big mall full of Karens and Kens. This is due to companies being allowed to not pay taxes for 2-3 decades to move their HQ's/Operations to Texas. And this single reason is why Texas will never be the same.

In El Paso the desert that I rode horses and drove 4x4 in has become neighbors for miles and miles in every direction but south.

Austin here as well! Agree with your post @italtex.

Texit!

@@michaelbirdwell7985 Bad idea. That whole thing about the Cuba chokepoints not being blocked by a hostile foreign power doesn't apply to a Texas Republic.

Not really a good thing if you're playing UNO

Pfp bros

its because texas isnt a woke'ard state ,go woke go broke

Texans are very good at secession. No other state hates the United States more than Texas

It takes 12hrs to cross Texas. How long does it take to drive across the longest part of Germany?

@@H8onG 7 days because of stau(traffic jams)

Texas is about the size of france

​@@H8onG very little, because you can drive 160 mph legally, up there...😂

San Antonio, Dallas, and Austin are the coolest places in Texas. Most other areas the people are mean spirited and uneducated form my experience.

@@Antinatalists_Unite this is by far the dumbest comment. The cities you mention a blue cities, therefore you must be a liberal therefore a bigot

@@Antinatalists_Unitestill infinitely better then California

Please vote differently if you came to Texas to keep it better than Cali.

@@grtgamer6807 both sides are equally just as bad for equally different reasons. Politicians do not look out for the average citizen but whatever business is willing line their pockets

1991? Back then having a $100,000 home was a big deal in Fort Worth.

Same, my parents got their home here in 2007 for $300,000 and now it’s valued well over a million

Great for your parents terrible for millenials and zoomers who just want to be able to afford a starter home at some point in their life.

@@Gerwulf97 fr

@@Gerwulf97 it’s great for boomers but horrible for millennials and gen z. Housing shouldn’t b e a commodity bought and sold. Speaking of the boomers and silent generation that bought single family houses in the 60s-80s for the equivalent of $80k-200k today and are now worth 1m for the sake of location are now fighting any denser housing development like apartments that would house more people more affordably or fighting mass transit projects that will provide more affordable transportation.

That's the bad part about affordable houses. The more people know about it the less affordable it becomes.

Yeah it sucks. I bought my first home in Austin in 2018 for 270k. Worth closer to 600k now. Maybe even more

@@staywoke2198 bought my first house in 2002 for $147,000. That house is now worth over half a million, and it’s in Buda: a bedroom community 15 miles south of Austin. The condo downtown I bought in 2015 for $440k is now worth almost $700k even with interest rates at 5%+. It’s nuts.

As a Oregonian, I can tell you that you can still suffer from affordability problem even with so munch land.

We have always paid more in property tax than any state and the growth and foreign land ownership is killing us and DFW will be san fran in 5 years.

Road widening never solves it. Viable public transport is the solution.

@@watema3381 Me personally, I would never take public transport. I'm not gonna get robbed, I get to listen to music/have a conversation/have quiet, I always have a seat, I can have privacy if I'm driving with a passenger, I have comfortable storage space. And also I think cars are cool so there's that too.

The thing with public transport is Texas is too yuge. It works if you live and work inside downtown, many people choose to remain outside city limits. Hence the “Texas triangle”.

@@DeRico1337 That's why is has to be _viable_ in order to work. Have highspeed mass transit train lines connecting major hubs, with smaller trams connecting smaller hubs, along with busses connecting even smaller areas.

@@watema3381 knowing txdot that’ll take as long as widening 35 🤣🤣

More than an hour, but yeah. Back when my brother was in college we'd regularly make the trip from a small town north of Austin to San Antonio and it took about 2 hours each way. From where we were living at the time it was 4 hours to Dallas and 3 to Houston. Even though I've lived here my whole life it's still a bit mind boggling how huge this state is, and it's not even the largest by land mass. Do you ever watch Daytripper?

I'm a native Texan and am tired of seeing different cultures invade my homeland.

Also don't forget once you pass I35 going west there's NOTHING. I'm from West TX and that is something that is missed everytime. Just how empty it is. You get near el paso and good luck finding someone

Born and raised and only left the state a handful of times haha

One of the things I love about Texas is you can't be bored here! Just move to a different part 😂

I always go down to Aransas to see the whooping cranes

Great biodiversity, it’s beautiful. I feel fortunate to live on the Texas blackland prairie as I get to see all sorts of wildlife but I worry that it’ll continue to dwindle. Less than 1% of the prairie actually remains and lots of these methods mentioned for our energy needs are continuing to do more harm to life than good.

I agree. Winding, up and down country roads with fields of wildflowers is so soothing. I recently changed my commute from work to home in order to go through areas like this. No more highway and such a relaxing commute.

not for long :D or not in the triangle at least.

My dad would agree I lived in Texas for all my life

Good luck and stay safe.

We need folks like YOU here in Texas. Please return

We just have to figure out the border issue and we’ll be good.

Americans should be proud of their country and the Americans who live in Texas that made this possible.

I'm not even american, but out of the 50 states, Texas Is my favourite and I'm so glad that it's doing so well. I wish one day I'll be able to visit Texas, but my secret dream Is to live there ❤

Texas is without a doubt the most American state in my mind. As a Chinese, I am curious about what the people of Texas think about China.

@@creekmorenoelle well me personally I think China is a cool country, sure it had soome set backs in the past but hey, it's having a come back! But there are some people in Texas who don't take to kindly to others, but there republicans so you probably already knew that

Nah. We won't be Cali 2.0. Cause we're worse. Granted Prices aren't ad high, and the people might be friendlier, but Cali has better Education, more progressive, and has better road ways and Mass transit. Texas has, Higher control on education, with overall worse education. The roads aren't as well maintained, the politicians add conservative as all hell, and the people often worse. Upside. Food is better, the hospitality most folks is better, and more people are carrying guns to settle disputes. But with the way Texas is holding against LGBTQ and Aborstion, and well as Decenct education studies, disheartens me more and more everyday. Texas won't be Cali 2.0 when it's worse.

​@@Zelia_Wolf and your the reason Cali is collapsing, good job

@@splintery9357 would you like to elaborate?

@splintery9357 RLL has already explained why Cali has so many problems. Progressivism isn’t one of them; it’s mainly the lack of land & the high rate of NIMBY among residents resisting high density housing developments. :P

@@splintery9357 I love that "collapsing" = one of the largest economies in the entire world (literally still bigger than Texas), but yes. It's definitely collapsing.

yeah, my family is from the east side and man it's unrecognizable these days haha.

Here in Pflugerville there are tens of thousands of people living in areas that were farm land 5 years ago 😂

I visited for a few weeks 12 years ago when it was a small college town. I drove through recently and I was shocked with how much larger it was

Moved into Gracywoods before the Domain was developed and it's a little crazy seeing the skyline of the Domain when exiting. It was more in the country before and there are still guinea birds roaming the neighborhood from the farms that existed before that actually have protected status in the city. Several of the Office Space movie scenes were filmed in the area in the late 90's.

No more room for people go to Louisiana Lmao

Yep! I live in smaller town 40 mins outside dfw and as of recently, almost every empty field/land I’ve ever known is either in construction at the moment or has already been built over. I’d say 3 out of 4 of everything built were rich people neighborhoods.

FL as well?

@@azerko Yup. My manager is originally from Florida and moved here in 2018.

@fatboysgarage7984: I know the feeling. I moved to Seattle in 1993. Back then, Seattle was very quirky, independent and beautiful. Fast forward to 2024 and now it's filled with people mostly from Cali who have utterly destroyed the PNW. I moved to Anna, TX (Collin County) in 2020 and loved it. Then came the same people from Cali who destroyed my beloved Seattle area. I came to Texas to assimilate and to retire. I respect the culture and (for now at least) is still a great place to live. I've also noticed that while many blue state transplants are better off financially, they are miserable. They refuse to change their ways and I see many transplants who don't last a year in Texas. Let's keep Texas, Texas. Red. Free. Prosperous. And independent from the tyranny of our US government.

And Louisiana too

and Spanish speakers

The beaches? Bro, I am many generations Texans, I have spent a large portion of my life on all the beaches of Texas, I live here now, in POC, but from north Houston so Crystal Beach, Galveston, dads a fisherman so Port Aransas, Matagorda, I was young once so Corpus, Padre, etc. our beaches aren’t great for being beaches, good fishing though

You mean to tell me there are Europeans who prefer Texan beaches to Spain, France and Croatia?

@@bala007rapidfire ask them but they sure come here to Corpus.

And spaceX in boca raton

Its not for the better. Just ask anyone from Phoenix...

Gentrification + globalisation = a lack of identity.

aoc will move to texas and improve the state lmao

@@johansjournal tell me that’s a joke aoc is a literal communist and she wants control over everything

@@SA.................. If that is all it is to you, that is sad.

Governor Abbott claimed ,the reason why Texas grid failed was because of wind and solar as he took $1 million bribe from the gas Industry. So what are you trying to say ? Your governor It’s cause more damage to your state than you will ever be able to repair. Good luck, Texas, dirt.

Cool!

It'd sure be nice if our state government got the transmission lines out to all of them like they said they would. The amount of anti green energy people that harp about *still windmills* and how it is all a scam without factoring in that the windmills were built on time, it is the state dragging their feet getting the high density transmission lines fully built.

Didnt Trump say that windmills give you cancer? Also, no electrical grid, no point in windmills, Tesla cars, or rooftop solar panels. SUCK. MY. OILY. BITS -Texas probably.

yeah because the contracts sold a bazillion barrels of diesel "JUST IN CASE" that have to be processed every 3 years for contaminants and result in billions of dollars in infrastructure contracts no one actually has to complete because by the time any of it matters the entire system will be too expensive to run compared to extremely cheap alternatives already on the market. Bragging about Texas wind generation is like bragging about Trumps gold toilets. They are both just for shts. Literally.

And thats why we should sell only to texans more people paying higher hurts the ones thats been here.. greed in a high demand business makes prices go up

People are too greedy for that. But nice wishful thinking.

@@BabyRainbowFriendexactly, california housing should only be bought by californians, same with new york, and LA! So ridicious to see Texans in other states when they can stay in their own

_"my Texan clients are starting to have some trouble keeping up with the prices."_ What a surprise that is.

I just moved to Sioux Falls SD and it’s the same here. I can see every month how the city is growing

A long time ago, you could do San Antonio to Dallas in 3.5 hours. 😢

The drive from dripping springs to San Marcos literally doubled in the span of 6minths

Yeah today (a Wednesday) the traffic was unbelievable even on 287

I lived in Houston in early 1970’s and roads which were two lanes are now 8 lane highways, the traffic here sucks, it’s why we moved to Central Texas..

Right on brotha 🤘🏽

Hi raj it’s been a while , we went to school together but I’m sure u don’t remember 😂 funny to find u here

@@ivan-1689 bro let's go😂Ivan from elementary school?

Helps that he didn’t mention the power grid disasters, high property taxes, and housing costs outpacing incomes.

As a fellow Texan, this slightly boosts my confidence in going forward with my desires of starting a small trucking company in the state.

That is what I was going to say, as well as bringing the two technologies together.

I agree. Having lived in Houston for most of my life it’s grown so much it’s mind boggling… looking forward to moving out toward rural parts of Texas.

Wyoming, Alaska and others are still like that.

I wish I got to see Texas when it was like that, I'm sure it was much nicer. I'm currently in Dallas, but only lasted for my year lease before deciding to hightail it out of the state to a less populated one. My issue with videos like this is they don't really go into the negatives that come with growth... The homeless situation in the DFW area is truly insane. Tent cities galore, almost any abandoned building you see being broken into and lived in by huge groups, drugs everywhere, crackheads everywhere, open prostitution, etc all run rampant here. I just went to 7/11 yesterday and a prostitute walked past my car wearing no underwear and an extremely short dress with her butt hanging out, I saw everything and my two young daughters were in the car. I even saw her pimp. In downtown Dallas, you see homeless folks sleeping on cardboard right outside ritzy hotels that cost hundreds a night to rent. It is a sad state of affairs here in the city; I'm sure it's nicer in smaller towns, but for how much longer? Will the depravity and sadness of the city leak to those places as well? I'm not sticking around to find out first hand, but I hope Texas gets a grip on the negatives that come with all this growth or people will eventually mass exodus out of Texas just like they are from California now.

I remember it like that, I'm 47. Raised around Marble Falls and a bunch of other areas in Texas. I miss it too.

When I was born in Texas, the entire state population was 9.6 million. Now we have 30 million.

That's not happening. 20 years living in this state and the prevailing sentiment I've heard about public transit is that it's too expensive, dirty, unsafe, and nobody here wants car traffic to be deprioritized one iota. People here are way too attached to their massive trucks and SUVs to ever allow real spending on public transit or biking infrastructure. Maybe in Austin, cause that's where most people go if they're more liberal, but DFW/Houston I just can't see it happening there.

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Agreed. As a resident of the triangle, I’d give anything to be able to hop on a train and go to another triangle city

A train system connecting our big cities would be cool. I wouldn’t use public transit in a city though.

Be honest it’s perfect that way it is. Different cup of tea for everyone. I like that it’s not trying to be like other cities around the world. It’s especially semi truck friendly. If one doesn’t like driving then Texas ain’t for them and that’s ok.

The thing I like most about Texas is we don't get pushed around. Texans, truthfully, don't give a f*ck. I live in Missouri right now and am shocked at how demure this culture is. Nobody wants to speak up. Nobody wants to walk through the door first. I'll roll up to a stop sign that a car is already at, and they act like they're scared to go and will just wave for me to go. I really miss Texas and how forthright, honest, and independent the people are. These people in Missouri try to make me out to be crazy because I'm independent and proud of it. I feel like I'm in bizarro world.

I wanna go to Waco and see the remains of the Branch Davidian cult compound

ive been, its actually pretty cool

I literally lived in Waco and never went to either 💀

The Dr. Pepper Museum! I love Waco…had many family members (both sides) living there over the years so my fondest memories are almost all from times I was there visiting. Most don’t know that the Branch Dividian was located outside of Waco-I never saw it. Chip and Joanna Gaines have brought Waco back into the national conversation but in a positive way. (They have a hugely successful show about their home renovation business, a popular store in downtown Waco, and even a magazine that Joanna created called Magnolia that comes out quarterly, I think).

@@Redcheeks69 you are allowed to visit and the residence are very welcoming, especially if you visit on April 19th, which is the anniversary of the siege. I may or may not have a piece of their swimming pool in my collection of macabre artifacts.

It happened to me and now I am homeless .I sleep in my truck and work framing and foundation s .rent is unaffordable .so I build houses for people to feed my self to be homeless. This is progress mind you.

Welcome to Colorado

Sucks. Get better jobs

Don't you like capitalism?

Same here, so many on the internet like to look at Texas with rose-tinted goggles, but overlook the issues we are facing because of that growth including us locals being unable to afford housing, the water shortages, the strain on the grid, and worst of all, many of these folks ignoring the growing authoritarianism in Texas.

A Big Amen to that. Love my Texas!

@@user-qs7kk9ei8j even doubling the population wouldn’t really change that, given how most people will pretty much be concentrated in one area. Population density is crazy than you might believe. Remember, Germany has much, much more people than Texas and is much smaller, yet it’s not overcrowded with plenty of beautiful countryside. I don’t want my lone star state to be too heavily populated either, but land is the least of the concern.

I heard in The Great Awakening,,,,,,,TEXAS will be part of SAVING THE WORLD,,,,,,,,,,dont ask me more, cause i dont know,,but the person who said this has been Right on all the other stuff they are saying. The Ken Paxon story is way BIGGER than anyone know's,,,,,,,,,,Nothing can stop what is Coming,,,,,,,,,,,,Q

As long as Republicans control the state, Texas will never gain power. The IDIOTS running the state only hold a small majority of voters but gerrymandering tilts the state their way. They re going down the Florida path of passing laws that allow government sanctioned discrimination, rob women of their rights, an target the LGBTQ community. Inclusion in the path to power but Republicans haven't found a CULTURE WAR they aren't willing to start and fight. Even if it is based on LIES. I would not live in Texas or Florida if you PAID me A LOT.

@@-xnnybimb-9398 still, we here don’t really like change, it is very hard to get us all to agree on something (at least where I am from lol)

That is because if th3 oil industry and its use for training in arid climates

Why would that be worth mentioning? California is the biggest military presence in the country. So in comparison, it's not worth mentioning.

@@ZefOrath came here to say the same thing thing. Most of the military bases are in California

@@ZefOrathdemocrats are slow

@@ZanesFacebookya but they isn’t respect the military so it doesn’t count

We are neighbors! I live in UC, right next door 😊

Wow! I live in cibolo that’s crazy we’re all so close

ayyy sup neighbor from converse

I live in Converse but I lived in Live oak on topperwein. I was born and raised in NJ lived in PA & CA I've been everywhere pretty much. Now I'm here and its crazy seeing all these highways being built so fast.

That’s not bittersweet it’s just bitter

California/West is tech hub of USA like Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Netflix for example so many more

I hate the city system. I’d never want to live in a Large metro area

All the libs moving and making the places they moved to EXACTLY what they escaped from

The west is America's Siberia

It's not only the west, ALOT of the USA's territory is really underpopulated, often because development is difficult and unprofitable to make building much of anything other than farms. If you ever travel away from the highways it's a whole another world. But nobody cares since the big cities are often the only places where businesses can build and turn profits. The west is just the logical extreme of states +2x times the size of Ohio, yet a tenth of the population. I suspect it will only get worse, espeically if those big cities are the only ones able to get fresh water. The resulting migration will just straight up ignore the 1,000s of small, dying towns trying to give away houses to cram into NE corridor, or sunbelt cities while complianing about how the sudden influx sent the cost of living skyrocketing again.

I think Texas is going to have the first supermega city. Basically, I35 is going to be nothing but one long city.

Texas isn't terribly concerned about ecological requirements.

​@@markrobinowitz8473 haven't met our hunting folks then

Really its ugly..Concrete , brown stucco and scrub brush....for hundreds of miles

Drive from San Antonio to El Paso if you don't want to see anything for a few hundred miles.

Even with a higher property tax rate, it is still vastly cheap than most states.

Not for much longer the way prices are jumping.

This isn't mentioned enough. Yes, zero income tax and zero capital gains, but property taxes are huge. I thought the NE would be bad with their income tax, etc. But I found Pittsburgh to be even more affordable, shockingly. I suppose Pittsburgh is more Midwest though.

NY property taxes are higher

@@jjd-lx5vr Actually it's not. NY property taxes are at 1.72%, Texas property taxes are 1.80%.

Truth! I can’t stand Austin these days. It’s awful.

I moved here in 2010, and everyone was soo nice and friendly, but.... Comparing austin back then to now is like comparing heads to tails. It feels less like it used to. I don't know how it was in the 80s but well either way the amount that austin changes from decade to decade is incredible.@@C.O._Jones

no mention of Kilgore for oil! Worse, creator's emphasis of Dallas over Houston - that burns!

@@sinusoidalKant It was basically a sleepy college town, you could see the Capitol from pretty much any vantage point, the streets were filled with one-of-a kind characters, and the music scene was organic. Watch Linklater's movie Slacker for a pretty solid capture of late 80s/early 90s Austin.

Democrats and their vision from the 80/90s have done nothing but hurt Austin in ALL(most) categories.

I'm from there as well, and you are correct.

@Jocob Cohen THE University of Texas is better!

Thanks for that information...I am IMPRESSED!!!!

@Vivienne Scarlet would u rather take a couple of million dollars or care about people who could care less about you. most people would take the former. don't think you are above that. most of our politicians that seem to "have your back" do the exact same thing on either side of the aisle.

Too bad the Pro-Rape, Pro-Incest Republikkkans will ruin Texas Roy Moore is already looking for his next victims there

@Jocob Cohen Nope. Hook 'em horns 🤘🧡

One of the largest in the world.

Somehow they still can’t keep the lights on…

@@IAmAllEyes electricity is unreliable everywhere and everyone in the U.S. will become total electric soon, except Texas.

Literally every other person I know in right now is going into some form of engineering- even getting an engineering degree at a small, public college is enough to get a job here

@@IAmAllEyes for a day lol good luck this summer California 😁

But they are so damn ugly...

texas is the best

our fatherland is beautiful, we mustn't forgot the sacrifices to form this land, or to build us to the superpower of a state we are

Welcome Home

Being close to your support network is the most valuable thing you can have.

I grew up in Texas, 1972- 1989. We all hold that Texas pride for our whole lives.

The south in general has seen a massive uptick in population. People are moving out of the east and west and filling up southern states. Wish I would have bought property in some TX suburbs in 2019...

Ayo yea Texas City has been growing so fast with new apartments and neighborhoods being built everywhere! Also tons of construction on 45!

@@phillipromero7591 it's kinda cool to see one these videos about our area . It's fun to know that the sights we see everyday might be cool to others , like our refineries almost next door .

@@vr6one Pennsylvania, easily has the potential to see a population uptick as well the cost of living up here is pretty low compared to other parts of the US and there are a ton of jobs up in our state thanks to the natural gas boom

@phillipgodkin2493 yea people visiting are always astonished seeing the flames from the plants when they open the door 😅

HEB is an institution in Texas

As a 2 year partner, and my father surpassing his 27 year. I can confirm, no store does more than my HEB.

I finally get to move from Texas to Washington state next month. I'm really going to miss HEB. Everything else can stay, if I could have my HEB and open carry.

What does op mean (op state)? I can't find the meaning of it.

@@babakgasimzade4176 OP in the context of this video is short for "overpowered". And separately, when people refer to the "op" in the comments, they mean "original poster".

It always boggled my mind driving through Downtown how the Med Center was essentially it's own city within a city

It's the largest medical center in the world. Let that sink in. There are more CT scanners in just one hospital (MD Anderson) than many first-world nations have. Let that sink in. The scale of the Medical Center in Houston is mind-boggling. I want a whole RLL video just on that!

Yeah and the ridiculous prices they charge

interestingly, it's Houston Methodist rather than TMC which is more highly rated (#81 on Newsweek's list of world's top hospitals) Dallas' UT Southwestern, next highest in Texas, is way down at @239. teaching hospitals tend to be the most bleeding edge - pardon the expression. 😁

im so happy that i wanna work in medicine and i happen to live in houston lol

Also, cotton. We grow so much dang cotton here, especially in West Texas. I also really miss Texas' culture. Texans are nice, but don't put up with BS. That's my favorite kind of person (I'm also, coincidentally a Texan haha). The only other place I've been where the people were like that was Boston.

An all powerful deity blessed a relatively small part of a planet in the vast cosmos of the universe? Texas could use a better education system.

Then you need to close down Austin right away. Basically the California transfer center.

Yes ma’am, I agree 100%!

I worry about that as well.

All the people moving here from other states want to change texas to where they came from. It's not so special anymore. Especially austin. Liberal shithole.

Thats being hopeful lol

Same

I think he's from Dallas, too. Which is cool!

You forgot it's becoming the new silicon valley too

Raytheon also has a large footprint in Texas.

Absolutely correct, @martins. MDAnderson is opening a branch in Austin soon. Expansion from Houston. Dallas will be next IMHO.

Speaking of NASA, our uncle John Aaron was one of the first EECOM engineers at NASA. Apollo missions. A steely-eyed missile man, Uncle Bud.

I suggest you offset your real estate and get into stocks, A recession as bad it can be, provides good buying opportunities in the markets if you’re careful and it can also create volatility giving great short time buy and sell opportunities too. This is not financial advise but get buying, cash isn’t king at all in this time!

California is a shit state ran by a terrible governor. Left wing policies makes everyone poor and no one actually like them

@@fresnaygermain8180 This all looks and sounds like a good way to pitch this professionals services. I have been seeing this quite a bit in YT comments. Last time I took advice from a professional financial advisor and purchased a certain stock, it plummeted.

@alexsteven.m6414, God forbid! I bless Texas in Jesus name! Nothing is impossible with God! I hold on to Jeremiah 29:11 amen! God is faithful.

I've been hearing this since 2019. I really did think it would crash at one point between 2021-2022 but I honestly don't think there will be a major housing market crash, especially in California.

Having no backyards is the best thing that can happen to a city. We need walkable, densely populated neighborhoods with access to everything within a 15 minute walk or public transit. We don’t need 3,000sqft houses for 2 people

I live in Allen and yes it's been wild seeing the rapid growth all round DFW.

Texans are a breed unto themselves, jus ta good bunch of people. I grew up in Texas, 1972- 1989. Texas pride gets instilled into us.

As a Texan I want to go to Japan, how is it there?

@@rival2589 as a Japanese I want to go to Texas someday in the future

@@rival2589 It's a lot like Texas. Japanese people are so damn nice and respectful, the food is fantastic and the weather is great 90% of the year. 10/10 would recommend to anyone.

@@rival2589 Of all the military guys I've met who were stationed in Japan and Germany, they said Americans are treated very well. Kind and respectful are the Japanese, and the Germans like having good times. I say "make your dream happen " !

My family moved from the Houston area to Collin County in the mid 80's. The area has always been growing, but it exploded in the early 2000's, and continues to do so.

Me too...we had 14 acres in the Dallas City limits...now, not an open piece of land for miles and miles....I moved to South Texas...no people for miles

​@@laurahoward5426 what part? I need to move to another part of Texas

@@michele5695 Good Luck

That's everywhere basically

sounds like California.

IOW: California

It's the Californians carpet bagging here.

Fr

People in Amarillo are some of the nicest anywhere, but I have noticed people being not so courteous. I cringe whenever I see a car with California or Colorado license tags. We also have started to see beggars at the intersections. Never had that before.

"...the state pride is unlike any other state by a mile." *New Jersey has entered the chat*

@@MikeDiEva Bro, even New Jersey residents don't like New Jersey. 🤣

I really hope Texas does not become a country 😓

"Texas has a lot of concerning issues that are far too deep to get into on a comment. " Well tell us a short version then? People like myself who have never even been to the US would like to know.

​@@lawrencefrost9063 If I had to take a stab at it (having done d2d sales in the DFW area since the start of the year, ive gotten to get a ton of different perspectives), it has become so culturally and ideologically diverse so quickly that the "melting pot" (i.e. people from different cultures integrating into the larger culture as a whole) hasn't been able to take effect. This has created quite a bit of friction, and people here generally aren't quite as friendly as they used to be on the whole. Native Texans see it as Texas is losing its identity. On the flip side, however, I would also say that people like myself moved to Texas because of that Texan pride. I always loved the unapologetic pride, yet undeniably welcoming nature of the people in the state. It is why I moved here from central Illinois, I wanted to be a part of, to add to, and reinforce that aspect of the culture. And I am far from alone, so many people have moved here because there is a sense of hope and freedom here. Would be curious to hear the OPs thoughts

Don't forget the Czechs. What would we do with out kolaches? My great grandparents immigrated from there in the 1800's. I live in the hill country and love it!!

That explains A LOT of why Tex Ass is the way it is.

@@knoahbody69 stay mad

And Alsatian in Castroville

Neat. Texas is 37% white, and among children it's 15% white.

Fellow Midlander here

BUSHMAN! Keep up the videos! They always make my day! Respect from Nevada.

Whoa didn't know you lived in Midland, I'm still here but glad you got out, it's getting crazy with the amount of people moving here. Also the fracking is causing earthquakes lol

@@isaacreyes1181 pretty sure earthquakes are from the swd wells not fracking.

Great news!!! [Insert ad for curiosity stream here] (both comments read in a bad acting voice)

Wtf?

​@@fstringer1486There's a lot of manufacturing in northern Mexico right across the border from Texas. Some Chinese companies have started moving there.

mexico is about to become allie’s with china buddy 💀

The pivot to Mexico is quite overstated, I think. South Texas will remain a backwater indefinitely, hopefully.

What?

Ayyy DR represent!!! Those are my peoples.

Does all the hot air down there make it easier for planes to takeoff?

@@charleswieand4445 Is that a legit question or a sarcastic quip? If the air is hot it's usually less dense and less efficient for a plane to fly in.

@@jonathanhildebrand2161 yes.

@@jonathanhildebrand2161 I understand. Last time to Laughlin was over 2 decades ago, flying the t38. We were trying to fly into Randolph in San Antonio, but the weather was below mins for fog and we didn’t have a lot of gas to loiter. Diverted into Laughlin and spent a few hours chilling until we had decent weather in San Antonio. It was really a weird feeling returning after 20 years into a pilot training base again. I’m sure you have the same observations returning to old training bases.

100%

Howdy

Secede

You mean like in a brokeback mountain way?

And shit starting😂😂

Same here in California…

That's great to hear. Proud to be an American.

California is light years ahead of Texas.

@@mmmd3429 it's a competition. Or it should be.

@@thetroytroycanMeanwhile Texas is moving backwards.

Sounds like the opposite of Californians lol

Texans are the rudest people we meet here in Germany

Such a wholesome family story. 😌

I seriously doubt this guy onlyh learned his family owned at 250K acre ranch at 35-he was told about this in the womb. And if you think Texas is big enough to build 8 Billion homes I got ocean front property in Arizona I will sell you cheap buddy.

@@garyshan7239 You could actually take every person on Earth fit them onto Rhode Island and still have room left over before crossing state lines. Texas probably could in fact house all 8 billion humans.

How many are you housing there? Just asking for a friend...and the rest of Texas..kthx

I googled there is only one Texas ranch of that size and it's 255K acres

Nice to hear you work at DFW, what airline do you work for?

Not much more you could as for from a state, I’m from Oklahoma and glad I get to go to Texas, espically for Buccees. I’m actually going to my family on Friday after finals.

2nd busiest in the world not the country

I grew up in Abilene, you can't take someone seriously if they badmouth Texas. I'm a Texan 'till I die .

@@billycarpenter4740 Good to hear my fellow Texan, let us keep our state pride.

Do NOT come to Michigan. Especially Detroit. We like our low prices and homesteading potential.

We can only hope.

@@PrimericanIdol literally nobody is thinking about moving to Detroit 😂

​@@AndrewPontihope Texas flips blue and get its economy destroyed?

@@mr75204 Good. Let's keep it that way.

Love that story

Incredible that they both made it back. That was a horrific battle. Howdy, from Deep South Texas

Gilbert loved the service and also made jumps in Korea. He cried telling me about a fellow Marine that went on patrol and was never found, the man had four daughters and my uncle begged him that night to let him take his place since he didnt have a family at the time. Hey South, have a nephew went MM Academy down the, thankfully they taught him about GC and he got to visit with Tio some. My folks are originally from Brownsville and Los Fresnos

@@gumecindogarcia1070 that’s where I’m from lol

Many thanks to your uncle and his cousin for their heroic service. As a fourth generation Anglo-Texan, it's obvious to see that the success and prosperity of Texas today would not have been possible without the essential contributions of the millions of tough, smart, hard-working Tejanos in our state - it couldn't have been done without you!

It’ll only get worse

housing jumped everywhere u closed off hick Texans... yall think the world is Texas and blab too much about it.

It's only getting started... Y'all soon will be getting the new York experience

I've lived in Texas my whole life my family has been here for multiple generations, and I've been priced out of Arlington and am hoping I can go back home one day. I don't ever want to leave Texas but these terrrible people moving here are changing the place increadibly fast. I've never seen more road rage and just ugly behavior and always from a california plate, a utah plate, or a colorado plate but especially the California plate drivers will be rude and cut you off and drive more of those crazy giant trucks than any other type of plate. Its like the republican hipsters are moving here and ruining the culture of the place. Its not a monolith here we love our home and we dont want these people to come and ruin our towns.

Yes. My first house was $114,000 just a few years ago and now it’s worth almost $300. Wish I hadn’t moved!