blackomen wrote:
I currently live in DFW as well. It's alright, not the best but certainly not the worst. Like you said, people here are pretty diverse so I don't find it too hard to find a group of ppl I'd want to associate with if I looked moderately hard enough. I've moved quite a bit in my life and I wanted to solicit others' opinions before sharing mine. Here's how I'd rank the places I've lived from best to worst in terms of the people and not, say, cost of living, climate, anesthetics, etc:
- San Francisco Bay Area (esp Berkeley, CA)
- Lausanne, Switzerland
- Los Angeles, CA
- Orange County, CA
- Sacramento, CA
- DFW, TX
- Detroit Metro. MI
- Rolla, MO
- Xi'an, China (my birthplace but I only lived there till I was 3 but I still revisit every decade or so till the pandemic.)
<Huge Gap>
- Midland, TX
I find the big gap then midland hilarious. I've spent a decent amount of time in East Texas, thats where my brother is currently living. And I dont feel to comfortable there a lot of the time. I know midland is west Texas but the feel is similar that far out. Some areas of east Texas I'm honestly afraid to advertise I'm Jewish. I mostly stay on my brothers land when I'm there and only go into the small bed and breakfast town he lives in because their pretty accepting of outsiders. ... but and this is a big but, outside those 2 places I dont really feel at ease. My brother is always making jokes about deliverance and the hills have eyes. I'm like why are here than? Because the land is cheap?. He's happy but he's also served in the military and he's funny, so people accept him easily.
BTW as far as dfw goes. I find if I bring Appa my pyr/shepard mix with me anywhere I'm allowed (and some place I'm not,

) I'm pretty easily accepted, even if i act weird. Lol. Or maybe its because Appa is huge and people are afraid to mess with me.
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