Grass is always greener, man. My wife is from New York and every now and then I try to convince her we should move back there. Concern about finding a job is al

Grass is always greener, man. My wife is from New York and every now and then I try to convince her we should move back there. Concern about finding a job is always her worry, but I think she vastly underestimates herself. I've been in Texas over a decade now and presently live in Dallas. The homelessness problem is just as bad. Train infrastructure is probably worse consider there are only five lines in the entire city, and the interiors often have puke and shit all over the seats. Combine above ground power lines with constant high winds and we get power outages probably once a week, at least once a month. The city never fixes sidewalks or potholes. A quarter inch of rain results in half the traffic lights going out. I live within spitting distance of AT&T world headquarters and still can't broadband service from anyone but Spectrum, which is terrible (they once shut down my service and terminated my account because someone else gave them the wrong address and claimed to be moving into my house). Code inspectors literally sleep on the job and shoddy contractors and builders are all over the place, so you need to be extremely careful shopping for a place to live and you can expect to be making some extremely expensive repairs and upgrades within a few years of moving in, somewhat negating the advantage of lower purchase price. It's a bit of a cultural wasteland, too, which many people won't care about, but if you're from New York, you're probably going to miss it. Dallas is thankfully pretty good for live music if you're into 70s through 90s era punk/metal/industrial type stuff, which thankfully I am, but if you're more artsy, well, the city tried to build an arts district after losing out on Boeing headquarters 20 years ago supposedly because executives wives didn't want to live in a city with no culture, but I can't say it worked out well. Space is the saving grace. The one thing I still love about this city compared to New York is I've got a downtown townhouse five times the interior floor area as my sister-in-law in Queens at about a quarter the price of her place. But again, we've also sunk a ton of money into fixing nonsense poor craftsmanship that would have never gotten past a city that does real building inspection. My neighbor successfully sued the city for his furnace being installed upside down because the inspector was 84 and he was somehow able to prove the guy was unwilling to walk up the stairs to actually look at what he was signing off on. I'm not trying to say it's terrible here or anything or that New York is paradise (which I wouldn't know anyway since I've only visited and never lived there). Just beware. Low taxes aren't the end all be all of life. The government still manages to be terrible in a lot of other ways besides, largely with horrible infrastructure and no maintenance, but also in smaller ways like selling your information when you register to vote or get a driver's license, making it effectively impossible to not be slammed with nonstop spam no matter how careful you otherwise are about privacy hygiene.