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Think Of Relocating? Try Amarillo Texas

By Pamela Madore

Real Estate Agent with The Pamela Madore Group 573760

November 14, 2013 10:54 PM

Pink House Team

Amarillo is a great place to live; other than no water or trees and 45 mile an hour winds. I am not a native Texan but I found that in Texas you are welcomed as opposed to Maine where I grew up. Any transplant there was "an utta state-ar" (correct spelling Out Of Stater). I lived in Florida for a long time, too, but no one that lives in Florida is actually from Florida; just lots of "snowbirds".

When we first moved to Texas from Florida there were some specific things that I noticed. Silly, I suppose, but none-the-less big changes. I immediately noticed that paper bags crinkled. In Florida they made no apparent noise. They just
flattened. The same with newspapers.

I also noticed that there is no humidity. None. On the occasion that humidity is above 10, Texans complain about the humidity. In Florida the humidity hovered at 90 most of the time. And in Maine we just had muggy days. Of course, with no humidity my skin dried up like a prune. Age had nothing to do with it.

Now the wind is quite something else. Our daughter and husband live out in the country a bit. There are wide open ranges around their house. I learned that you never open both car doors at the same time lest you blow away taking your car with you. By opening one door at a time, however, that particular door could be blown open to the point of bending the hinges. In order to close it you need to put your whole body weight into it. In Florida we called that a hurricane force winds. Maine has nothing more than a breeze.

The traffic is another thing that took some getting used to. People would talk about "rush hour traffic" and I would look around wondering what they were talking about. The first time someone in front of me stopped at a yellow light I almost ran into the back of them. In Florida if you stopped at a yellow light road rage would ensue. There is time for at least 8 cars to go through the yellow light and another 3 that went through the red light. In Maine there are no traffic lights.

The greatest thing, though, were and still is, the people. Everyone in Amarillo is nice to you. We have a lot of polite people here. Wait staff in restaurants are nice. As a matter of fact, before we moved here we were visiting our daughter and my husband, Tim, went to Walmart. When he came back he was so impressed with how nice people were to him that he said, "we are moving to Amarillo". And we did. So you could say that Wal-Mart is the reason we live in Amarillo.