Southern Destinations: Carolina vs Texas?

[kingofnyc]

Bruh a TON of people love Texas. It's beloved on this very site...

Carolina gets a ton of transplants from the Northeast, eastern Midwest (Ohio, Indiana, Michigan) and the eastern part of the South...

Texas gets a ton of transplants from the western side of the South, the western Midwest (from Illinois/Chicago going west), and West Coasters and the Interior West...

Though there's plenty of people in both, I've met fellow Californians in NC, I've met Chicagoans in NC, I've met people from Oklahoma and Arkansas in NC. I've known people from DMV to move to Texas, I've known Carolinians to move to Texas, and I'm sure there are eastern Midwesterners in Texas...

A lot of people love Texas but it's never been my style, I'm not with it! I guarantee you when more people see this thread Texas wins the poll ...

for all those people you know that moved to Texas - my question is , are they black ?

 

[murksiderock]

for all those people you know that moved to Texas - my question is , are they black ?

Of course...

 

[Lucky_Lefty]

I lived in Texas for 19 years -- Houston is best, Dallas is second, and I wouldn't suggest anything else unless you prefer a quiet life.
Lived in South Carolina for 30 years -- the shyt can be beautiful but it's a hell hole. Wouldn't recommend.
Lived in North Carolina for 57 years-- this is the best out of the 3. Decent infrastructure and quality higher education. Depending on where you are in the state you can get that 'southern' feel or not.

nikka, how old are you?

 

[Roger king]

Texas is a fascist hell hole their governor is a proud bigot and racist, no sane black person would opt for that over carolina has far diverse population and moderate within reason politics

 

[Lucky_Lefty]

for all those people you know that moved to Texas - my question is , are they black ?

There's a ton of Black folks who moved to TX. Dallas itself has had the largest migration of Black folks since 2020. Hell, I moved there but 3 yrs is all I could stomach but I wouldn't be against moving back but...

 

[Lucky_Lefty]

Texas is a fascist hell hole their governor is a proud bigot and racist, no sane black person would opt for that over carolina has far diverse population and moderate within reason politics

Texas Gov, Lt. Gov, State Atty = the entire NC legislature

 

[Rocket Scientist]

Greenville and Charleston nice historical cities but boring . Columbia,Aiken i love those cities they may seem but decent places to live.

 

[murksiderock]

There's a ton of Black folks who moved to TX. Dallas itself has had the largest migration of Black folks since 2020. Hell, I moved there but 3 yrs is all I could stomach but I wouldn't be against moving back but...

Where did you move from to Dallas, and where did you go after leaving Dallas? Living there 3 years, what did you not like about it?

 

[Rocket Scientist]

Its culture and people. Black folk in south are different. These cats will stare at you all day,they just look at you strange

 

[TheHonorableOmarSharif]

As a Carolinian who visited Texas.... Answer is simple.

Carolina!

 

[skylove4]

Living in Fort Mill, SC for a year now. I like it.

Did you hit up the strawberry festival

 

[T-K-G]

I always imagined SC to be mostly bumblefukk of rural nothingness outside of Myrtle Beach

This is backwards as hell

Ain't shyt in Myrtle outside of the actual beach and boardwalk, it's a college town filled with Jersey shore transplants you go to Myrtle for bike week or for a lil 3 day vacay, nothing more!

Charleston and Columbia are actual cities

Also, Charleston is my favorite city in the South next to New Orleans. They have the best culinary and art scene.

You are correct with food but holy shyt you are so off base with the art scene the traditional art there is for 60+ year old people breh. Atlanta art scene shyts on Charleston, and if you count Virginia as southern and not Mid-Atlantic, Richmond VA absolutely shyts on Charleston, the biggest public art school in the country is there (VCU) so it's overflowing with artists, it's nowhere near close. Downtown Charleston might have like 3 streets with scene things (bars, clubs, food, shopping) and you can run through all of that shyt in a day or two

you seeing the same exact people every time you go out after a week or two or being there


I've lived in all of these spots and am originally from Charleston. It's growing a lot but still very much a developing city, you'll make major bank if you got the money to invest in real estate and sit on it

No legal weed, wages are ridiculously low (pretty sure minimum is still 7.25, yet the rent is up there with places that offer twice that )

The main thing about Charleston is you can walk outside, know about no one, and damn near everyone walking around is open to talking or hanging with ya if you ain't a weirdo, easy ass place to network and fall into p*ssy, people will literally just offer to smoke you out and drink if you look chill

we may have the highest percentage of PAWGS in the country, and yes, I'm counting places like New York and LA, not only have I traveled enough to compare, so many people visited here from major cities and are at the ratio of fat ass Beckys here. I always take that shyt for granted until I come back and visit. Come bag you a trust fund daughter and drive her dad's boat in the Atlantic

 

[Yagirlcheatinonus]

Greensboro just for A&T alone

 

[Lucky_Lefty]

Where did you move from to Dallas, and where did you go after leaving Dallas? Living there 3 years, what did you not like about it?

I was living in Huntsville, AL which, ain't bad but it's not somewhere I wanted to plant my flag. Very clique-ish (D9, church going types). My job was the only reason I was there but on the weekends, you would catch me anywhere else but there. I'll preface me talking about moving to Dallas with I got there exactly 2 weeks before everything "locked down" for COVID. Getting into the legal and government systems there, I quickly found out these folks aren't serious. It's more about keeping up appearances and giving the illusion that they were for the people. The ones who are, you quickly know because EVERYONE hates them. It's clique-ish like Huntsville but the people are at least a bit more welcoming and whatnot. I moved away to a significantly smaller midwest town for grad school. It's super liberal here. Like so liberal, I think I'm being pranked with all the progressive issues the local govt takes up that would've been laughed out of council meetings in Dallas.

DFW (really all of TX) Cons:
-the prevailing "bootstraps" mentality when its far from that. Someone is always hooking someone up whether with knowledge, resources, etc., especially when $$ are involved. I met the CEO of American Airlines once during a trial involving a stewardess and a chef. Guess who was chatting it up with sitting judge every day and I can bet he donated to that judges reelection fund, even tho that person isn't up for election for 2-3 more years.
-this false belief that TX is gonna be purple. Not happening. People think Travis County is some liberal hellhole/utopia in the middle of the state but nah. From what I experienced, they are just as if not more racist than their East TX counterparts. They just dress it up more. (White) People moved to TX to be around more likeminded ideologues, not bring their ideology to change the state.
-resistance to public transportation. cities are so spread out that public trans would do a world of good. But since they frame it as your money being used for this or underlying "folks from sides of town you moved here to escape from will have access to your neighborhood" messaging. Mansfield/Arlington/Grand Prairie are growing like a mf but they refuse to set up a functioning transport system nor allow the DART to run through it. Look up the council meetings in Frisco when Universal Studios decided to build that amusement park there. Them cacs came out the wood works to protest not just building it but the people who'll work there will obviously want to live close to their jobs so that means we'll have to build affordable housing or extend the DART to the communities in which they come from to here.

that's just a few things I didn't like but my experience different than most cause I worked in legislative/judicial offices and went to their little after hour shindigs where the Dem & Rep who supposedly hate each other are yucking it up with each other and even out on the dance floor. shyt is all theater

 

[TELL ME YA CHEESIN FAM?]

Carolinas have plenty of beaches breh