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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]According to Forbes, 37 billionaires live in Texas. Micheal Dell leads the list at 17+ billion.  That doesn't count the poor nine-figure folks.  The fracking boom has been led by hundreds of independent oil companies.  Texas is awash in serious money.

I went to one of the schools you mentioned.  I had sorority sisters who shopped for their clothes at Paris fashion week. Yes, it is "new" money, but there LOTS of it.  [/quote]

Very concentrated wealth in Texas. Infrastructure is crumbling, school system is an embarassment, and very few services. When I lived there I remember being so frustrated because there were no mailboxes! This is just an example. Texas is a terrible place to be poor.[/quote]

It must have been a while since you lived there.  The only problem with the infrastructure in Texas is trying to get around all of the cranes and bulldozers in the process of building (and rebuilding) it.  The schools system is hit or miss (like the DC area), but there are excellent schools that have relatively affordable housing in the boundary area (unlike here).  Texas may not be a great place to be a ward of the state (and I actually don't know if that is true or not), but the cost of living and abundant blue collar jobs make it a great place to be working poor. [/quote]

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