Texas DUers, where do ya live?

[elfwitch]

Poll question: Texas DUers, where do ya live?

What large metro area are you closest to?

Where do you actually live?
DFW - Plano, Richardson, Carrolton
San Antonio - Boerne, Kerville, Bandera
You get the point...

[Intelsucks]

1. I have lived in the San Antonio/Austin area my whole life... 35 years.

n/t

[elfwitch]

4. where did you go to HS?

when did you graduate?

[Intelsucks]

New Braunfels High School - Graduated 1987. Go Unicorns!!

n/t

[Lisa0825]

2. Howdy, neighbors!

I live in Texas City, down near Galveston.

[elfwitch]

3. Dallas...

I actually live in Dallas.
I'm near Richardson and Plano, but I actually live in Dallas.
Most people don't.

[Skittles]

5. Plano

right on top of Dallas

[fudge stripe cookays]

44. I work near you!

on Waterview.

Lunch sometime?

[elfwitch]

51. well I work at...

My office is at Preston and LBJ.
During the week, I am there.

[VelmaD]

6. I'm in Austin now...

but before that I was in Lubbock for undergrad and before that I grew up about an hour northeast of Dallas. Not exactly in the metro area - out in the country. :-)

[GOPisEvil]

7. Right here in the Capital of Occupied Texas!

From 1980-2000, I lived in the San Antonio metro area (Universal City or in San Antonio itself)
From 2000-present, I have lived in the city of Austin.

[Vogon_Glory]

36. Also In The Capital of Occupied Texas

I'm also in the capital of Occupied Texas. The latest GOPster gerrymandering effort reminds me of the way the Allies divided up Berlin.

[VelmaD]

8. Unless you're in El Paso...no excuses...

for not coming to TXlib's birthday party.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=724451

[elfwitch]

9. Dallas is an excuse...

Too damn far to drive.

[eek]

12. I'm originally from dallas

but fled years ago.

still go back sometimes to visit dear dear pals like DU'er Norton!

[Superfly]

10. How many non-Texans are spoiling this poll?

:shrug:

[elfwitch]

11. Ah! Finally a San Antonian....

I sure do miss my home.

[pmbryant]

43. Another San Antonian here

Been here over 5 years now.

:hi:

--Peter

[Richardo]

13. Cypress...

NW Harris County (Houston).

[Kamika]

14. Add one vote for Corpus Christi

I voted for Houston, but I'm in Corpus atleast 1.5 months every year

[alarimer]

34. Corpus here also

But I hate it here. I really need to move; can't say why I haven't except that I haven't found a job anywhere else. I don't like Texas very much either except for Austin. I only moved here because the job I got had benefits and my previous job in Florida did not. I figured I would be here a couple of years, no more. Now it is almost 7. I am a part-time grad student in the hopes of getting a better job, preferably in some other state.

[PDittie]

15. Born in Beaumont, lived in Plainview and Midland

and now Houston for the past ten years.

Medical Center area. Train now comes by at the end of my block.

I love Texas (and I loathe Bush).

[elfwitch]

16. He sure has made it hard to say you are proud to be a Texan.

And he isn't even from here.
The bastard.

[USAF Brat]

17. Back in San Antonio for about 9 years now...

and am a native Texan, but my dad was in the Air Force and I literally grew up from coast to coast! We always ended up back in San Antonio every few years though (headquarters of SAC after all). I just can't seem to get the Hill Country outta my system! B-)

[corporatewhore]

18. I live in Austin raised in Rio Grande Valley

[TEXASYANKEE]

19. I wasn't born here,

but I got here as fast as I could (1980). I work in Dallas, live in Rowlett.

[Maddy McCall]

20. Born in San Antonio, grew up in Groves/Beaumont area, later lived

in Longview. Now in Mississippi. I'm a Texassippian. :D

[Fenris]

23. I was born in Port Arthur and lived in Port Neches

I love the smell of pollutants in the morning. Honestly. I find something oddly comforting about the cancer-causing, exhaust-filled air of that town. Sick, I know.

[Maddy McCall]

25. Have you ever eaten Boudin from Franks Grocery?

My god it's the best stuff in the world!

[Fenris]

32. Damn fine stuff. Nick's also makes a fine Boudin!

:)

[lastliberalintexas]

46. I didn't know that!

I'm in Beaumont myself- born and reared. Though I did spend 3 years in the bowels of Hell, otherwise known as Lubbock, Texas.

There's nothing like living in Cancer Alley! Though, it is nice to live in a place that people don't look at you funny if you tell them about the rice balls and shrimp creole you had for Christmas dinner!

:hi: Jill and Fenris

[Fenris]

21. San Marcos

As implied by my sig line. Or as I like to affectionately refer to it San Marcos Brewing Company and University.

San Marcos: A drinking town with a college problem.

(That's an actual tee shirt I saw on a girl on campus.)

(BTW, if you want to know about what the girls here are like, ask GOPisEvil or INTELSUCKS. Both of them can tell you.):P

[GOPisEvil]

22. One word to describe the ladies there: Sssssssssssssmokin'!

:D

[Fenris]

24. See, what'd I tell you, the man knows!

:hi:

[GOPisEvil]

26. Every Jeep I see with SWT or Texas State...I gotta look inside!

There's BOUND to be a hottie driving! :hi:

[Fenris]

33. Damn straight!

Gotta represent my ladies, I suppose. Well, not my ladies. Somebody's ladies. But we're all classmates, so that counts for something!

[GOPisEvil]

35. If they were your ladies, you'd have a new best friend.

nt

[LanternWaste]

27. Forth Worth

Born in Houston (lived there for two months)
Raised in San Antonio (til I was about eight or nine)
Lived in Fort Worth ever since.

Non-Texans: If you ever get the opportunity to come to north Texas, go ahead and spend an evening or two in Dallas (just so you can tell your pals you did); but for some real fun, hit downtown Fort Worth on a Friday or Saturday night (forget Billy Boob's- it's more a cartoon than reality). There are some great clubs and restaurants that you'll never hear of in a tour guide-- The Library, 8.0's, Cafe USA, and my favorite ('cause the nurses from the medical district hang out there and I love a women in scrub's :) ), Billy Miner's.

The new Bass Performance Hall is a gorgeous thing to behold at night and we've got a world class zoo.

Boots are now passe, just in case you thought you'd bring that pair of Dingo's from 1983 that you've never worn...

[GOPisEvil]

29. Great museums, too.

:thumbsup: Lon Burnham in the State House, too!

[LanternWaste]

30. Dogonnit!!!!

Rats. I didn't mention the museum's! World class stuff ladies and gentlemen!. And our great downtown library (it leaks, but ignore that)


I even interviewed for an ass't IT position at the Kimball two months ago-- didn't get it, but I had fun daydreaming about how cool that job would've been... :)

[plurality]

57. stop by th e Boom Room near TCU, that's a decent one

And one of my best friends bartends there. Tell her I sent you and you might even get a free drink :)

[silverlib]

28. Austin, south of the river

I love it here. Raised in Ingleside, TX a few miles north of Corpus Christi. It's a whole different world.

[Catherine Vincent]

31. Houston (where Janet flashed her boob!)

Born in Lafayette, LA but raised in Houston and been in Houston ever since. I was supposed to be born in Port Arthur with my other siblings but my mother wanted to be near her mother (where she lived in Lafyaette). So I'm not a cajun, I'm a Texan.

[NoPasaran]

37. South Austin

Moved here from El Paso sixteen years ago.

[nini]

38. I've been to the Dallas Ft. Worth airport before..

does that count? :o


the layover was so long I felt like I lived there.

[mykpart]

39. Red Oak

between Dallas and Waxahachie.

[eek]

48. Kolaches!

I was friends with this odd/cool cat named Hal who was from there.
20-odd years ago he was the only other person I knew who was into Brian Eno.

Kolaches from West?

Bon Ton thrift store in Forreston?


I used to work at Redbird mall in Duncanville.

[SilasSoule]

40. Born in The Rio Grande Valley (Weslaco, Tx)

(missing from your poll choices elfwitch) Grew up in San Antonio, Went to College at College Station, Lived in Houston and South Padre Island, And currently live and Work in San Antonio.

[corporatewhore]

41. I grew up in harlingen and McAllen

[fudge stripe cookays]

45. My grandmother lived there many years!

You know where the freaky guy lives right off the main highway? The one who believes in UFOs and all that? He's sort of a cult celebrity or something....

My grandmother's old house is down the road from that-- kind of yellowish cream looking, 1940s era. My grandfather built it. I think my uncle still lives there. Haven't seen him for years. Jack Rennscheidt.

FSC

[cycleberg]

42. Indiana

Been in Indiana for about a year & a half.

Most of my life, lived in Houston and then - south of Kemah in San Leon.

Boy I miss Texas and Houston and the poor, beat up Galveston Bay.


edited - clarity.

[Ishoutandscream]

47. Rockwall, a suburb or Dallas. Home of Ralph Hall

The man who finally declared that he truly is a Republican. Nice man when you talk to him, but is a Bush loyalist. He told me he has known the Chimpster since he was a little boy, and still refers to Bush as a "good boy." The president of the United States - a good boy. That really left me shaking my head.

[Vogon_Glory]

49. Ralph Will Continue To Call Bush A Good Boy...

Congressman Hall will no doubt continue to call George UU Bush a "good boy" until after some Republican reactionary beats him in the upcoming Republican state primaries here in Texas.

[VelmaD]

52. You poor thing

I'm originally from Greenville and my best friend lived in Rockwall for a while. Talk about too damn many rethugs in one geographical area. Her in-laws still live there and they are serious wannabes. It's sad.

[fudge stripe cookays]

53. Hey! We're in Rowlett! Howdy neighbor!

[KCDem]

50. TXLib and I are in Houston

And we're having a party tomorrow night! PM if you want to come!

[snoochie]

54. Dallas - Richardson

I'm technically in Dallas but close enough to consider myself in Richardson. So close my kids go to school in the Richardson district.

[plurality]

55. New Hampshire now, but in DFW for first 24 years and will go back soon

Please let me vote! I miss it there!

On edit- Specifically Arlington and then Bedford.

[sendero]

56. Dallas...

...comfortably close to Richardson and uncomfortably close to Plano :)