Texas, See it to Believe it!

Chris... it's amazing on what some people assume, just because of TV or what other's might say or mention. I know I have done this in the past and you can't just assume until you experience it yourself.

I use to live in Houston when I was 7, around the mid 70's. I remember Galveston, down by the water, as being not so clean. Too many jelly fish ... and coarse sand. Not sure if it's still like this, but it's still in my mind. And I could distort someone's mind by just making this same statement, when it could be misleading now... after 30 years. 

Not to mention, Chris, that we can be desert dry one day and flooding the next, resulting in lush greenery two days later!  (We're in the midst, at our place and in the vacant listings I have, of fighting the jungle-like growth that appeared seemingly out of nowhere last week.)

A couple of decades ago my son played soccer on a local youth team.  One of his teammates' parents met at Cambridge University (England); the husband was from here, the wife from Trinidad.  They married, and he brought her home to Austin (this was in the 1970's). 

Her parents were horrified that she was being taken to live on the "frontier".  Her brother came to visit, to make sure she was okay.  He was greatly relieved to discover that not only did we have buildings downtown that were more than two stories tall (this in the state capitol) and the streets were paved, but we didn't have shootouts in the streets at noon most days!