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ND and MT, probably yes. TX is just TX being awesome.

001sky 13y ago
Notwithstanding the Awesome, there is plenty of fracking goin' on. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tight_natural_gas_plays_in_the_lower_48_states_of_the_USA.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tight_natural_gas_plays_i...
- scarecrowbob 13y ago
  This meets with my experience, not to mention that north of Amarillo and Midland/Odessa are currently booming, at least as far as can see when I'm out there. Not to downplay the larger cities in the state that are growing.
  - tunap 13y ago
    Are all the improvements 'Public Works', say, highway/freeway construction? That was the feeling I got spending many months of the last two years in Austin & Dallas. Every freeway was being built, expanded or repaired... my GPS was constantly telling me to exit when nothing but dirt & Jersey barriers existed. Cannot recall the source, but I believe all this work is done w/ Fed stimulus + taxes from all the oil/gas they're pumping & petro refining.
mikeyouse 13y ago
Texas is... well Texas. Some things are awesome, some things aren't: * Highest percentage of employees at / below minimum wage [1] * Highest percentage of uninsured [2] * 4th highest poverty rate [3] * Lowest percentage of high school graduates [4] * 4th most citizens in jails / prisons per capita [5] * Most CO2 emissions [6] * 6th highest obesity rate [7] They have a lot of work to do before I'd consider them awesome (I say this as someone who's spending a lot of time there, and will potentially be relocating with a company there in the near future.) [1] - http://www.bls.gov/ro6/fax/minwage_tx.htm http://www.bls.gov/ro6/fax/minwage_tx.htm [2] - http://kff.org/other/state-indicator/total-population/ http://kff.org/other/state-indicator/total-population/ [3] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_poverty_rate http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_poverty_... [4] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_educational_attainment http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_educatio... [5] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_incarceration_rate http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_incarcer... [6] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_carbon_dioxide_emissions http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_carbon_d... [7] - http://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/adult.html http://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/adult.html

Notwithstanding the Awesome, there is plenty of fracking goin' on. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tight_natural_gas_plays_in_the_lower_48_states_of_the_USA.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tight_natural_gas_plays_i...

scarecrowbob 13y ago
This meets with my experience, not to mention that north of Amarillo and Midland/Odessa are currently booming, at least as far as can see when I'm out there. Not to downplay the larger cities in the state that are growing.
- tunap 13y ago
  Are all the improvements 'Public Works', say, highway/freeway construction? That was the feeling I got spending many months of the last two years in Austin & Dallas. Every freeway was being built, expanded or repaired... my GPS was constantly telling me to exit when nothing but dirt & Jersey barriers existed. Cannot recall the source, but I believe all this work is done w/ Fed stimulus + taxes from all the oil/gas they're pumping & petro refining.

mikeyouse 13y ago

Texas is... well Texas. Some things are awesome, some things aren't: * Highest percentage of employees at / below minimum wage [1] * Highest percentage of uninsured [2] * 4th highest poverty rate [3] * Lowest percentage of high school graduates [4] * 4th most citizens in jails / prisons per capita [5] * Most CO2 emissions [6] * 6th highest obesity rate [7] They have a lot of work to do before I'd consider them awesome (I say this as someone who's spending a lot of time there, and will potentially be relocating with a company there in the near future.) [1] - http://www.bls.gov/ro6/fax/minwage_tx.htm http://www.bls.gov/ro6/fax/minwage_tx.htm [2] - http://kff.org/other/state-indicator/total-population/ http://kff.org/other/state-indicator/total-population/ [3] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_poverty_rate http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_poverty_... [4] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_educational_attainment http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_educatio... [5] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_incarceration_rate http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_incarcer... [6] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_carbon_dioxide_emissions http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_carbon_d... [7] - http://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/adult.html http://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/adult.html