moving South

[Robert Bonomi]

In metro Chicago, drivers insist that there are only two seasons. 1) construction season 2) pot-hole season

[jo4hn]

You will have to change the name of your state to Texaco. :-) yee haw jo4hn

[Duane Bozarth]

Not in N TX, they don't... :)

[Swingman]

Depends upon what you call "N. Texas" ... to a Texan, that would be up around the Dallas/FW, Denton area, and the weather there is often similar to Houston's.

Now the Texas Panhandle is a different story all together. Those barbed wire fences between the Texas Panhandle and your part of the country doesn't hold back much of that Canadian Christmas wind.

[Leon]

I heard that the construction workers were going to be from across the border. LOL

[Duane Bozarth]

That also depends on which part of TX "Texan" you're talking about...up here in the Panhandle, the two are pretty much synonyms--it's a long ways to the Red River country down there... :)

I recall as a kid going to grandparents' in "The Valley" (they farmed/dairy'ed between McAllen and Pharr) -- it was

[Jason Quick]

I can see why, since the state's pretty much one big trailer park already. More trailers would just crowd the place up. : )

What the volunteers don't know, of course, is that the fence is part of a joint project with Texas' bordering states to keep Texans IN.

Jason

[Robert Allison]

All this talk about where people are from is just wrong! I have always found that if you are talking to someone, you should never ask where they are from. If they are from Texas, they'll tell you, and if they're not from Texas, don't embarass them.

[Thomas Kendrick]