As my handle indicates I'm from NC, not Texas. That said I spent awhile in Texas at naval Station Ingleside, near Corpus Christi right before I got out. That said, I absolutely loved the place. The winters were a lot milder than those even in NC, much less those further North. I didn't actually stay long enough for summer, but I did experience enough of spring to say that it seemed to be 'dry heat', so it didn't seem near as bad as other places I had been stationed. Now dry heat is sort of a misnomer in that when it rained, it RAINED. In the months I was there I saw a few storms come through where you could literally watch a wall of water coming your way. It wasn't unusual for the parking lots at the mall to flood 6 inches plus deep from a downpour.
Not knowing exactly what I was getting into when moving down (ie-not knowing if I'd re-up, or how long I'd be there), and just in line with Navy policies to send info for those transferring, I looked into the housing market quite a bit. I wound up with a nice apartment that served my needs when I was there, but the housing market was plentiful, and fairly affordable at the time.
All in all though if I hadn't already had land and family to come back to I would have stayed in Texas, no question about it. In fact I strongly considered it, even with the things I had back home, until a relationship I had started when home on leave, prior to the transfer, got really serious. She was my deciding factor to move back to NC when I got out.....unfortunately that didn't work out so now I'm stuck here in NC....where it's nice, but not near as nice as I think Texas would have been....... I say that because the people were the friendliest I'd met anywhere I'd been, and the whole pace of life just seemed more laid back....Too, where in the rest of the US can you walk into a store and hear Garth Brooks/country music on the sound system instead of the other crap they usually play???Granted this was all 20 years ago, but I just don't see a place that nice changing that much, regardless of the years.
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