I spent my highschool and college years in Texas, and I couldn't agree more. Austin is a beautiful city with a beautiful culture, and even more "boring" places

I spent my highschool and college years in Texas, and I couldn't agree more. Austin is a beautiful city with a beautiful culture, and even more "boring" places such as Dallas and Houston are filled with super friendly and down to earth people. I now live in Silicon Valley, and I find that there is much more social tension around here. I've been hated on as a young techie, as a Chinese immigrant, as someone who moved in from another state and doesn't "understand" Bay Area culture. People here are also the opposite of "down to earth". I've never experienced any of the above when I lived in Texas, yet the first time I went to a NBA game here a few years ago someone shouted at me "Go home China boy, Yao Ming isn't playing today". Weather in Texas is atrocious though.