Estes lives there, I lived there for a few years, now I am just 35 miles from Amarillo.
Amarillo, to me, was a city with a small town atmosphere. Folks were/are pretty friendly.
Not sure, but am almost certain you can get SBC DSL there, or, as Estes said, Cox definitely supplies cable internet service.
Not near as much to do as you would find in Austin or San Antonio or Houston, but hey, the population is way less than down there. Like 140-150K population, not several million.
Hunting is great almost ANYWHERE in the Panhandle. Amarillo is situated right smack dab in the middle of the Panhandle, so the choice would be yours as to what, where, and when you hunted. Closest "decent" lake is Lake Meredith, then ya got Greenbelt Lake down east a ways at Clarendon.
Hope ya decide to settle in Amarillo or near here, Nimitz. That way I can make Curly come MY way. Twice now I've been in Wichita Falls or Iowa Park and not been able to hook up with him for steaks and beers, just bad timing I guess.
Lemme know what else you want to know. Email me at
airboss32@yahoo.com or at
kuehnfam@cableone.net. I'll get all the info I can and send it to you pronto.
Oh yeah, the seasons and weather and what not............one day you are freezing your nuts off, then you get up the next morning and it's 120 in the shade.....
Everyone says Chicago is the windy city........I say let them come and spend one spring in Amarillo, especially in March and April, they'll eat their words. Freaking wind seems to be always blowing at least 25-30 out here on the plains. Typical spring day: High temp of 78 degrees, winds gusting to 65 mph, wind chill index freakin ZERO!
Seriously, Nimitz, I lived down south a ways most of my life, but once I started to school back in 1990 in Amarillo, I pretty much decided I love it up here and don't wanna live anywhere else, ever.
