Author Topic: I Love Texas (Read 4441 times)

guttboy · « **Reply #90 on:** February 23, 2006, 09:55:06 PM »

Hmmmmm.....well lets just say taxes inside San Antonio proper leave something to be desired.....at 3.2 to 3.3% of appraised value on your home you pay a great deal.....

No income tax though....but wait....sales tax is what.....over 8%!

I guess just about any where you live you "pay" somehow....LOL!

fartwinkle · « **Reply #91 on:** February 23, 2006, 11:52:52 PM »

There is a saying about texas weather.
If you dont like it waite a couple minutes and it will change.

When I first moved here from Colorado I thought I was gonna die but got used to it after a couple of summers now I love the heat.

beet1e · « **Reply #92 on:** February 24, 2006, 07:57:33 AM »

LOL Jackall!

Now listen, matey - just remember when and where your thermostat was invented.

As for Texas having everything, I know this is true because Jackall says it's true.

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... so it's funny that my local area is often teeming with American tourists. Don't they know that for a fraction of the time and cost it takes to get to England, a rich, diverse, all encompassing cultural experience awaits them... in Texas?

lazs2 · « **Reply #93 on:** February 24, 2006, 08:12:00 AM »

beet... england is like a cross between a really boring amusment park and a museum with really crappy weather to most of us.

you may have the place teaming with American tourists but.... they come home. people don't move from Texas to england... they do move from england to Texas tho.

I will have to look at Texas a little closer sometime this year especially the areas that skuzzy mentioned.. I can also look at some of northern Arizona on the way. It's been too long since I have really looked at those areas.

Oh well.. there isn't one state near kalifornia that doesn't trust it's citizens with firearms so I shouldn't have too much problem... The only thing we get for our tax money in kalifornia is shrill socialist government and fees based on junk science.

lazs

Jackal1 · « **Reply #94 on:** February 24, 2006, 09:11:43 AM »

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Originally posted by beet1e

... so it's funny that my local area is often teeming with American tourists. Don't they know that for a fraction of the time and cost it takes to get to England, a rich, diverse, all encompassing cultural experience awaits them... in Texas?

Yea, there are a lot of boring Americans just like there are a lot of boring people all over the world Beet. I beleive those folks are going to the right place. At least they are out of our way. We`re not into boring around these parts.

BTW, let me be the first to say..."Told ya so".

beet1e · « **Reply #95 on:** February 24, 2006, 09:19:43 AM »

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Originally posted by Jackal1
Yea, there are a lot of boring Americans

sounds like you're one of 'em, if you never see the point of going beyond you're own state line.

Lazs - oddly enough, I had lunch at a café today, where there were yanks on two of the tables adjacent to mine - and even two of the "servers" were American.

Gunslinger · « **Reply #96 on:** February 24, 2006, 09:22:10 AM »

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Originally posted by guttboy
Hmmmmm.....well lets just say taxes inside San Antonio proper leave something to be desired.....at 3.2 to 3.3% of appraised value on your home you pay a great deal.....

No income tax though....but wait....sales tax is what.....over 8%!

I guess just about any where you live you "pay" somehow....LOL!

yup $3K a year for me right now.

indy007 · « **Reply #97 on:** February 24, 2006, 09:54:40 AM »

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Originally posted by beet1e
LOL Jackall! Now listen, matey - just remember when and where your thermostat was invented.

As for Texas having everything, I know this is true because Jackall says it's true. ...

... so it's funny that my local area is often teeming with American tourists. Don't they know that for a fraction of the time and cost it takes to get to England, a rich, diverse, all encompassing cultural experience awaits them... in Texas?

Maybe you can explain this Beet... there's a group that plays cricket near my house. I've seen them every saturday morning I pass by on the way to visit my parents... and they almost all have on the same style hat everytime.

So why the big, floppy hats? They even wear them in overcast conditions. Is there a dress code for cricket? Well, at least brits & americans have one thing in common... fascination with boring sports involving grown men trying to whack balls with glorified sticks.

lazs2 · « **Reply #98 on:** February 24, 2006, 02:44:07 PM »

so beet.... you found two Americans who were working in england? were they trying to get citizenship... I know you didn't mean that there are more Americans who want to be british than there are brits who want to be American....

even you wouldn't imply that..... right? I mean...you would be laughed off the planet.

lazs

Skuzzy · « **Reply #99 on:** February 24, 2006, 04:54:08 PM »

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Originally posted by beet1e
... so it's funny that my local area is often teeming with American tourists. Don't they know that for a fraction of the time and cost it takes to get to England, a rich, diverse, all encompassing cultural experience awaits them... in Texas?

Beet1e, I have spent some time in England, and have lived in Texas all my life. I know you would be terribly surprised to find out Texas has a very diverse culture. More so than England does.

England has things Texas does not have simply due to the much deeper history and Texas has things England does not have, simply because it is Texas.

But we Texans do chuckle at the sterotypical responses and thoughts people share about us. It is quite funny, and really misses the mark by quite a bit.

midnight Target · « **Reply #100 on:** February 24, 2006, 05:12:37 PM »

Anybody familiar with Longview? What's that burg like?

Skuzzy · « **Reply #101 on:** February 24, 2006, 05:17:41 PM »

I have driven through Longview, but never stopped there. Anything particular you looking for MT?

RAIDER14 · « **Reply #102 on:** February 24, 2006, 05:33:04 PM »

founders plaza at DFW is pretty cool I know what time all the jumbo jets come in:aok

Gunslinger · « **Reply #103 on:** February 24, 2006, 05:35:00 PM »

MT,

Are you seriously considering moving to the lonestar state?

midnight Target · « **Reply #104 on:** February 24, 2006, 07:28:39 PM »

Yep,

All I need is a job down there and I'm outie.

Skuzzy,

Longview has a large RV manufacturing facility.