Originally Posted By: Anne Holmes
But he said he would not recommend moving here, apparently due to his opinions on state politics. I got the idea he believes Texas politicians still act as if Texas is a part of the wild west of the 19th century. Kind of "caveat emptor" to the max...

Thanks for the interesting comparison of POV with regard to responsibility, Ellemm.


Same here, Anne in Alberta. There is that tendency of unbound freedom across open prairies in attitude, action, etc. Rugged individualism of taken responsibility for self and for community.

What an illusion/delusion: as soon as we had a major damaging river flood that evacuated over 100,000 people last years, people were looking to the govn't for help/money, etc. We believe that our provincial economy is powerful, buoyed (but very dependent) on oil and gas industries here. Meanwhile the provincial govn't offers lots of corporate tax concessions to these industries, etc.

Very naïve. Alberta is like a boastful teenager that doesn't want to truly cut bank strings with parents (aka federal government and provincial govn't).
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