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    Quote Originally Posted by wantitall4moi View Post
    how is Mt Washington a city?

    I grew up in Maine and have gone there more than a few times, even ran the race up it a few times, the town at the bottom of it isnt even called Mt Washington. It is just the mountain. The top used to be just a couple biuldings for weather observation back in the old days, but it bacame a tourist attraction and they started building it up. But the last time I was there maybe 12 years ago it surely wouldnt qualify as anything other than a tourist trap/weather station. For the most obvious reason it doesnt have any permanent residents.
    TECHNICALLY speaking, Mount Washington, NH is a town (has its own zip code, 03589). It is however, completely surrounded by Whitefield, NH. You are right, there isn't anyone who lives on/in Mt Washington, and it only has 1 business, so to call it a city is laughable.

    Pretty stupid list, calling Mt Washington one of the most humid cities

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    Texas is pretty much the only state that isnt insolvent. You can buy a gun and land and protect your property. The capital Austin is the home to the most live music in the country. Live music = hot girls. You can own a ranch, ride a horse, eat a huge steak, fuk a few cowgirls and actually have some balls.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sawyer View Post
    Guys, which state is best in USA in your opinion? California? Nevada? Hawai? (probably Nevada for us, lol)
    Depends. If you're looking to raise a family, New Hampshire might be best. No sales tax, no income tax, great schools, will be within 2 hours of Boston (most likely 1), plenty of good jobs and only adding more, as all 3 neighboring states have policies that drive businesses out of their state (aka Democrat policies).

    Not even close to the best if you're a younger, single guy though. Night life is weak unless you go into Boston/Portland every weekend. Foxwoods/Mohegan Sun are close though

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    Is it true they give you a complimentary shotgun when you buy a pickup truck in Texas?

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    The western side of the state isn't too humid but the southeast side it is miserable there. That is where they are talking about there. It is tough enough here in St. Louis and I can imagine what it would be like in Houston or New Orleans.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SBR_John View Post
    No state income tax
    Can't imagine why the state is 27 billion in the hole

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    Quote Originally Posted by Emily_Haines View Post
    Can't imagine why the state is 27 billion in the hole
    Because states like Mass and Cali are in such better shape, right?

    When will people realize that deficits are a SPENDING issue, not a REVENUE issue?


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    Too much useless land in Texas along with Nevada

    you can buy an acre somewhere in Texas for $500.

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    The people their speak weird.

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    Quote Originally Posted by doublej95 View Post
    A lot of people that live in Texas over estimate how tough they are, just cause its a big state doesn't mean that they are.
    They are tough......with guns...

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    Quote Originally Posted by opie1988 View Post
    None of you could make it in Texas. Undoubtedly a difficult environment, not for the weak.

    Those who can hack it generally thrive. Survival of the fittest.

    Men live here.
    I lived there for 2 years and drove 150 miles round trip to work and back every single day with no air conditioning in business casual attire. I can say the experience was rough.

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    Looks like most do not like Texas here

    I guess I was right

    Opie speaks decent English

    What does Noser speak??? American Slang??

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    I find it funny how there are not any threads bashing other states...why you mad? lol

    Texas is great... good jobs


    lots of women(from all over the world)


    relatively inexpensive living


    If you lived in Texas and did not like it, that is one thing. This is for all of those that blindly criticize a place that you have never been to.

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    Mississippi>Texas

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    Few facts about Texas:

    -unemployment rate ranks 24th in the country
    -highest percentage of minimum wage workers in the country
    -$27 billion in debt
    -26% of people in the state are uninsured, by far the most in the country

    Also, the lack of a state income tax is made up in taxes elsewhere. Texans pay on average 26% of their income in taxes. The average in California is 28.5%.

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    I think Gilbert Arenas is from Texas lol

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    Too many neighborhood Walmartsand yeah their humid heat don't got sh1t on Cali's dry heat.

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    JJ you gotta be fukkin kidding me. Texas is the best state to live in because of its quiet neighborhood, polite and nice citizens and conditions of living. I had the best two years of my whole life living in Texas before i moved away but let me guarantee you that Texas is nothing short of amazing, despite the poor weather

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    Texas isn't bad at all

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    men live here , tell'm opie

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    Quote Originally Posted by opie1988 View Post
    None of you could make it in Texas. Undoubtedly a difficult environment, not for the weak.

    Those who can hack it generally thrive. Survival of the fittest.

    Men live here.
    Pssh, Dallas is the conspicuous consumption capital of the universe. Its not exactly selusa secundus. How about a few words from someone who actually lives in west Texas and harvests cotton or something.

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    I would like to go to Texas just to see what it is all about

    I would go to Dallas and Houston

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    Yea those dumb republicans have no idea what they are doing


    Last Updated: 4:57 AM, October 16, 2010
    Posted: 11:48 PM, October 15, 2010










    More Print

    Rich Lowry


    More than half of the net new jobs in the United States during the past 12 months were created in the Lone Star State.
    According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 214,000 net new jobs were created in the US from August 2009 to August 2010. Texas created 119,000 jobs during the same period. If every state in the country performed as well, we'd have created about 1.5 million jobs nationally during the past year, and maybe "stimulus" wouldn't be such a dirty word.
    What does Austin know that Washington doesn't? At its simplest: Don't overtax and -spend, keep regulations to a minimum, avoid letting unions and trial lawyers run riot -- and display an enormous neon sign saying, "Open for Business."



    At bottom, the struggle between national Republicans and Democrats is over whether the country will adopt a version of the Texas model, or of the Michigan, New York or California model. Will government allow the private sector to thrive, or stifle growth with its hyperactivity and favoritism for anti-business interests?
    If migration were a referendum, the Texas model would be winning in a rout -- more than 1,300 people a day moved there between 2007 and 2008, according to IRS data.
    It's not as though Texas has been exempt from the Great Recession. Its unemployment rate is 8.3 percent -- high, if beneath the national rate of 9.6. It faces a recession-driven shortfall of roughly $15 billion for its next two-year budget, a significant challenge to its low-tax ways. But it has weathered the storm better than the nation and its mammoth competitor to the West.
    A new Texas Public Policy Foundation report notes that Texas experienced a decline of 2.3 percent from its peak employment, while the nation declined 5.7 percent and California 8.7 percent. During the past 12 months, California nearly canceled out Texas' job creation all by itself, losing 112,000 net jobs. Its unemployment rate is above 12 percent.
    Texas is a model of governmental restraint. In 2008, state and local expenditures were 25.5 percent of GDP in California, 22.8 in the US, and 17.3 in Texas. Back in 1987, levels of spending were roughly similar in these places.
    The recessions of 1991 and 2001 spiked spending everywhere, but each time Texas fought to bring it down to pre-recession levels. "Because of this policy decision," the Texas Public Policy Foundation report notes, "Texas' 2008 spending burden remained slightly below its 1987 levels -- a major accomplishment."
    Less spending means fewer taxes. Texas doesn't have an income tax -- in contrast to California's highly progressive one -- and it is among the 10 lowest-tax states in the country. Its regulatory burden is low across the board, and it's a right-to-work state that enacted significant tort reform in the middle of the last decade.
    Yes, Texas enjoys bountiful oil and natural gas reserves, but its attitude toward those resources is what's most important -- "if you got 'em, use 'em." If only the Obama administration's Department of the Interior agreed. The state long ago defied the stereotype of an economy entirely dependent on bumptious oilmen. In Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston, San Antonio and Austin, it has four diverse, thriving metro areas featuring robust high-tech and manufacturing sectors.
    In Texas in recent decades, the watch-words have been prudence and stability in the course of nurturing a pro-business environment, while California has undergone a self-immolation that President Obama wants to replay nationally. Joel Kotkin writes of California in City Journal, "During the second half of the 20th century, the state shifted from an older progressivism, which emphasized infrastructure investment and business growth, to a newer version, which views the private sector much the way the Huns viewed a city -- as something to be sacked and plundered."
    With predictable results. For policymakers wanting to restart the American jobs machine, forget the Alamo. Keep in mind the Texas model.






    Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion...#ixzz1QX47jxiq
    Last edited by sbr.rodrigo; 03-20-15 at 05:12 PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jnas View Post
    Yea those dumb republicans have no idea what they are doing


    Last Updated: 4:57 AM, October 16, 2010
    Posted: 11:48 PM, October 15, 2010










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    Rich Lowry


    More than half of the net new jobs in the United States during the past 12 months were created in the Lone Star State.
    According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 214,000 net new jobs were created in the US from August 2009 to August 2010. Texas created 119,000 jobs during the same period. If every state in the country performed as well, we'd have created about 1.5 million jobs nationally during the past year, and maybe "stimulus" wouldn't be such a dirty word.
    What does Austin know that Washington doesn't? At its simplest: Don't overtax and -spend, keep regulations to a minimum, avoid letting unions and trial lawyers run riot -- and display an enormous neon sign saying, "Open for Business."



    At bottom, the struggle between national Republicans and Democrats is over whether the country will adopt a version of the Texas model, or of the Michigan, New York or California model. Will government allow the private sector to thrive, or stifle growth with its hyperactivity and favoritism for anti-business interests?
    If migration were a referendum, the Texas model would be winning in a rout -- more than 1,300 people a day moved there between 2007 and 2008, according to IRS data.
    It's not as though Texas has been exempt from the Great Recession. Its unemployment rate is 8.3 percent -- high, if beneath the national rate of 9.6. It faces a recession-driven shortfall of roughly $15 billion for its next two-year budget, a significant challenge to its low-tax ways. But it has weathered the storm better than the nation and its mammoth competitor to the West.
    A new Texas Public Policy Foundation report notes that Texas experienced a decline of 2.3 percent from its peak employment, while the nation declined 5.7 percent and California 8.7 percent. During the past 12 months, California nearly canceled out Texas' job creation all by itself, losing 112,000 net jobs. Its unemployment rate is above 12 percent.
    Texas is a model of governmental restraint. In 2008, state and local expenditures were 25.5 percent of GDP in California, 22.8 in the US, and 17.3 in Texas. Back in 1987, levels of spending were roughly similar in these places.
    The recessions of 1991 and 2001 spiked spending everywhere, but each time Texas fought to bring it down to pre-recession levels. "Because of this policy decision," the Texas Public Policy Foundation report notes, "Texas' 2008 spending burden remained slightly below its 1987 levels -- a major accomplishment."
    Less spending means fewer taxes. Texas doesn't have an income tax -- in contrast to California's highly progressive one -- and it is among the 10 lowest-tax states in the country. Its regulatory burden is low across the board, and it's a right-to-work state that enacted significant tort reform in the middle of the last decade.
    Yes, Texas enjoys bountiful oil and natural gas reserves, but its attitude toward those resources is what's most important -- "if you got 'em, use 'em." If only the Obama administration's Department of the Interior agreed. The state long ago defied the stereotype of an economy entirely dependent on bumptious oilmen. In Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston, San Antonio and Austin, it has four diverse, thriving metro areas featuring robust high-tech and manufacturing sectors.
    In Texas in recent decades, the watch-words have been prudence and stability in the course of nurturing a pro-business environment, while California has undergone a self-immolation that President Obama wants to replay nationally. Joel Kotkin writes of California in City Journal, "During the second half of the 20th century, the state shifted from an older progressivism, which emphasized infrastructure investment and business growth, to a newer version, which views the private sector much the way the Huns viewed a city -- as something to be sacked and plundered."
    With predictable results. For policymakers wanting to restart the American jobs machine, forget the Alamo. Keep in mind the Texas model.






    Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion...#ixzz1QX47jxiq
    Deregulation will get you a shitload of jobs, but who gives a fukk if you grandchildren have to live in a cancer infested land, as long as you get your CHEDDAHHH...

    "Texas ranks first in the amount of toxic chemicals and carcinogens polluting air and water."
    Last edited by sbr.rodrigo; 03-20-15 at 05:12 PM.

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    No state income tax. If you don't have kids it's a paradise.

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    Quote Originally Posted by King Mayan View Post
    Deregulation will get you a shitload of jobs, but who gives a fukk if you grandchildren have to live in a cancer infested land, as long as you get your CHEDDAHHH...

    "Texas ranks first in the amount of toxic chemicals and carcinogens polluting air and water."
    I know it really kills you that a Republican leaning state is thriving

    At this point millions of Americans are more concerned with putting food on their table than worrying about a little pollution.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jnas View Post
    I know it really kills you that a Republican leaning state is thriving

    At this point millions of Americans are more concerned with putting food on their table than worrying about a little pollution.
    Yes. Americans thriving really kills me..

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    Thread over.

    Texas wins.

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    texas is great place to live

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    If you're not from Texas, you just wouldn't understand.


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    George W Bush is from Texas, 9/11 happened on his watch. Texans are soft like marshmallows. Go get me some oil you pricks.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tech N9ne View Post
    George W Bush is from Texas, 9/11 happened on his watch. Texans are soft like marshmallows. Go get me some oil you pricks.
    You sound very intelligent.


    Please, do us a favor, and never vote. Thanks!

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    I think it all went down hill when San Antonio couldn't hold on to the CFL football franchise...

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    That is a loaded question.

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    any posters do time in huntsville?

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