Texas has always had a huge tech industry presence, particularly the telecom industry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecom_Corridor http://en.wikipedia.org/wik

Texas has always had a huge tech industry presence, particularly the telecom industry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecom_Corridor http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecom_Corridor (and there's also a lot of tech industry here outside the Corridor proper, too) Personally, I love living and working in the suburbs of Dallas, and I wouldn't want to live anywhere else.