@@martinrodriquez3304 Even Midland gets significantly less rain that anything east of I-35. It would be very difficult for a DFW or Houston metro area to survive out there.
I needed a good laugh today...no commercial Airports? Lubbock, Midland, Abilene, San Angelo, and El Paso all have commercial flights. Stock footage of Deserts...lol! Come on man!😂😂
Yeah most of this is a pretty uneducated take. The video would be pretty small if he just said it doesn't rain very much west of the llano estacada. Amarillo has an international airport as well that used to be an option for the space shuttle because it's so long.
West Texas is not for the weak... hot, cold, dry, windy, hail the size of baseballs, pumas, rattlesnakes, scorpions, tornadoes, endless straight roads, tumbleweeds, 72oz steaks, and worst of them all... Texas Tech Sorority Girls... 😂 but yes it's worth visiting...
west and east texas seem different cultturally too. In far east texas you have more of a deep southern culture. Whereas west texas feels more southwestern
And the middle part is a mix of pretty much all over the country with a more recent tilt towards California, but also Midwesterners starting in the 1980s. And that's before you count immigrants from Asia, Latin America, Africa and some Caribbean countries.
@@austingee238 Interesting. I suspect that many of the historical cultural influences in many areas is already starting to fade. Much of that is due to 3 things: urbanization, domestic migration, and immigration. Of course, that is greatly influenced by how those 3 factors impact a given area. If an area has only a few people moving out and very few ever moving in, that location may hang on to its historical influences far longer than other places, perhaps even those located in the same state. Rural places in West Texas (and the Panhandle), South Texas, and East Texas are now facing a steady outmigration of their young people. Many of these places may become ghost towns by mid century, if not sooner: no jobs, no money, just sick old people.
@@gregorysouthworth783 Southeastern Missouri is a lot like that. You’ve either got to be a lawyer, doctor, teacher (if you’re married), or just so happen to know the right person to land a good job in order to live decent. Or, you know, sell meth. I didn’t have a college education, a popular last name, a connection to “important” people, or a willingness to manufacture, distribute, and sell methamphetamine so I left my hometown and, simply by having relatives from the area, I went to Lubbock, Texas. Lubbock itself is a nice city. At least compared to Saint Louis and Springfield, Missouri or Memphis, Tennessee - the places my hometown is practically equidistant to. The rural area outside Lubbock… well it’s technically West Texas but it’s close enough to the panhandle to all be farm land. Not really all that interesting. I’m from the Ozarks. I like the trees and rivers and hills and well New Mexico ain’t too far down the road. Jobs are plentiful and you don’t have to be related to one of four families to have one of those decent jobs. I make about 45k per year and my wife makes 40k so we’re living about as well as the average Lubbock resident. Not too bad. Not high on the hog. Just right, imo. I couldn’t do that back home. Culturally - SE Missouri is very much “the south will rise again” country. And no I don’t mean “conservative”, I mean “I’d h-ng *one* from a tree if the law would let me”. It’s mostly backwooded hillbillies. Rednecks are okay, methed up cousin “loving” hillbillies are not okay. West Texas is still “country”, although it’s more cowboy and a lot less redneck. It’s politically conservative like all of the best parts of Texas. It’s, well, Texas. Can’t beat that. Eastern Texas, especially around Texarkana and Tyler just really feels like a flatter version of Southeastern Missouri - culturally.
Bingo. U r spot on. Houston is literally the portal from the southwest to the south. east of Houston is so different cultural from what’s west of Houston. Houston is a mix of both
Some of the smaller towns are already (sadly) turning into ghost towns. This needs to change. It really should be an opportunity for people to make an investment. With more people moving into Texas from other states, places like Midland, Lubbock, and San Angelo ought to offer an alternative for economic prosperity as Dallas, Houston, Austin, and San Antonio are getting built out. I'd even like to see Fort Stockton become a city. Hey, why not?
Yeah but people still think that scrub land is worth thousands per acre. Not sure about west Tx but I looked into land in southeast NM. The prices are ridiculous!
Hi @Versed love your content! I was curious to know on how you edit your videos. Was planning on making similar educational content such as yours regarding global topics and wanted to know how you get your cuts of cities and other locations including what editing software you use. I'm a complete novice to making UA-cam videos but would love to get a general idea on how you do it.
The Comanches kept settlers out of the llano estacado (the flat plains that contain Lubbock and Amarillo) until the 1870s, then the area was dominated by enormous cattle ranches until the 1900s, the towns and cities in this area are very young and small
Great Video! As a resident of Odessa TX I completely agree and we are taking steps to get out of here withen the next year or 2 before the oil bubble pops. Luckily are jobs are not oil related. PS: we have a deascent size airport in Midland TX we really don't have to drive to Lubbock, El Paso or Dallas to take a flight.
I grew up in Odessa oil goes in cycles. Like this person said, boom and bust… and when there is a bust it can get hard. There are very few jobs that are not impacted, even if you don’t work directly in the oil industry. I loved growing up there in the late 50’s -early 70’s. Graduated from Permian in 1973. We moved away in 1994. It’s definitely very different now than when I lived there. I’ll keep my good memories, but I am happy I no longer live there. My son and one adult grandson still lives there. 😊
Sum it up. That side is hot and dry. Nobody wants to live there and lack of greenery and trees. Central, south and east have the opposite. Yes it’s hot. But there’s water ways and trees and seems like a place you’d wanna live. West Texas is depressing as it gets. Horrible places to live out there.
I’m from a town around 30 miles west of San Antonio. That town still is pretty much same in terms of growth, but I moved to the Austin area in 2016, and Austin and the surrounding areas have grown and changed tremendously in the past 5-7 years.
The company I work for in Lubbock is currently providing the Structural Steel for a new school in Wink TX...also Lubbock has Preston International Airport...yes, lots of wind and dust!!
As a Texan having been raised in N. Texas and going to school in the South Plains and living in the Panhandle for many years I can't wait to move back out there. I love the people and I love the low humidity and wide open spaces. I have lived in Houston, DFW, Lubbock(for school), Amarillo area, Corpus Christi(worst place I ever lived) and San Antonio. I have never lived in El Paso or the Valley but I've been to both and no thanks. They call DFW-Austin, San Antone and Houston the "Golden Triangle" and it is just way too crowded. I am an old Gen-Xer born in the 1960's and can't stand how much Texas has grown. The traffic is rediculous and the people that have moved here, mostly, are not too friendly. I'm tired of the Californians moving here. Don't California my Texas.
I've met a few people who moved here from California. They moved here to get away from the bs going on in California. My only issue is they are driving up property values
tbh I actually prefer west Texas over the rest of the state. Ya we don’t have the big cities, but we have mountains, starry skies at night, mesquite wood for our bbqs and our beer is just as cold as anywhere else. Abilene is home to me and I couldn’t care less about how anyone feels about it and if it’s not for them.
@@turdferguson12 everything south of highway 10 after (west of) fort Stockton is mountains. That whole big bend area, from the river to highway 10. Mt. Livermore is a popular spot to stop on a roadtrip. Then there is the Franklin mountains that El Paso sits at the base of. Then the Guadalupe mountains. Then just a lot of "foothills" like really big gigantic hills that are very very rocky. Sure these mountains may not be the Rocky's, or very forested like the Lincoln National Forest mountains in New Mexico which is 40 miles north of the Texas border. BUT they are definitely mountains, and definitely feel big and grand compared to the eastern of half of the state. Some "mountain towns" ( which are more of towns surrounded by mountains rather than in or on top of the mountains) include: North El Paso, Pine Springs, Fort Davis, Redford, Alpine, Shafter. Like I said, most will just be extremely extremely big hills that are super rocky, more like "mountain foothills". But there is a lot of true mountains 🌄 in Texas, they just don't have towns because they are protected conservation lands or national parks since they are so unique to the whole country ecologically and "rare" in Texas. True mountains include the Big Bend national park, Franklin Mountains, Guadalupe Mountains and Mt. Livermore mountains. Big Bend and Franklin Mountains are my favorite. But all are very cool.
@@turdferguson12 You should visit Big Bend National Park. Fort Davis and the McDonald Observatory - on top of a small mountain - are also worth a visit. A few minutes with Google Maps, satellite view, of that area should be illuminating.
Good to know I'm part of the 10% that lives in this area. Most of the info is good. I'm in the Panhandle area where it depends on oil, natural gas and ranching. Yes the wind sucks, especially from Feb-Apr, but I do like that I feel I'm in the middle of the country.
Makes me feel grateful that I live in a small town in the South Texas/Mexican border. Eagle Pass to be exact. We might not have that many places to go shop around in but I’ll rather have that than deal with high crime and heavy traffic in bigger cities like San Antonio, Austin or even Houston etc. The only issues we have here is a high amount of illegal immigrants coming in without trying to get asylum legally.
If you look at a satellite view of Texas, that line basically divides the arid parts from the green parts. West of abilene gets progressively drier (all the way up until California coast) and east of abilene everything gets progressively greener (all the way to east coast).
Do we know when ESPN breaks even on the ACC Network? Assuming that will be a factor in ESPNs actions considering their investment and Charlotte office.
Thank you so much for doing a piece on the Permian Basin! I don't see too many. Good job! I would love to share a few more features about the PB with you, if I may. I can see a lot of people spoke up about us having an airport. Don't know offhand what a large airport is but ours is 1,600 acres. Gets you where you need to go without a whole lot of tomfoolery. Please look at some images of our sunsets/sunrises. They are quite breathtaking - infinity framed since nothing blocks the view. In addition to our oilfields, we have I think the second largest wind turbine fields as well in Sterling City. I'm sure I'll be corrected quite quickly if I'm wrong but seems like I read second to California. Also, in the spring, there are endless fields of yellow wildflowers that grow under them as far as the eye can see. Truly spectacular. Your stats on our oil production seem in line with what I hear; however, did you know the residents in the Permian Basin pay higher gas prices than any other location in Texas? Again, I'll be quickly corrected if that has changed. I wish I could tell you why that is but I honestly don't know. Maybe someone in the comments can enlighten me. You mention our windstorms that pop out of nowhere. It just sounds so innocuous when one says windstorms. To be a little more description, there was a wind storm I believe in 2018 or 2019 that came right through downtown Midland. Seems like it was 1-2 miles high and was moving at about 60-70 mph. We got to watch it hit our office building through a wall of windows and was just thankful it wasn't a tidal wave. And lastly there is another weird little weather anomaly that I've only experienced in Midland/Odessa. Sometimes a windstorm gets caught under raining clouds so instead of getting raindrops, huge orange mud balls start pounding your car. There's a name for it but I can't remember what it is (mud rain?). It's only happened to me once but I'll never forget it. I was told it is dirt that blows in from Lubbock. Again, thank you so much for covering the Permian Basin. It was nice to see Midland/Odessa.
I wouldn’t mind retiring in Lubbock, has about everything you need and less of the big city inconveniences-construction/traffic. Cheaper cost of living too
Geography is important when it comes to countries and populations. Also, if the US had the same type of geography and consistent weather evenly throughout the country's territory, the population will be evenly distributed.
Traveling East to West across the U.S., population density really drops when you cross the Mississippi River. It really drops again when you get to the High Plains states. In Texas it really drops when you cross IH-35. If you drive east from Austin, you can observe the trees slowly getting taller as you approach Louisiana. If you drive west from Austin, you can observe the trees getting shorter and shorter. By the time you connect with IH-10 west of Fredericksburg, it's desert and the dominant life form is prickly pear cactus. It's all about water, or its absence.
I know there are a lot of criticisms of these types of videos, but I honestly think they are good jumping off points for people to learn about human geography,
My first wife was from Midland, really hated it there. She grew up in a house full of hunting trophies, insisted that she was scarred from being stared at by dead animals every day. Trophies in the living room did not bother me that much, but the deer head and stuffed fox in the dining room was kind of weird.
Have you been to west Texas? Its a change you notice. Everything east of it is a mix of tree's mountains hills or water. West Texas none of that. Try it out. The first time I ever felt real fear while driving on half a tank of gas was west Texas.
When my friend told me San Antonio was considered west Texas I was visibly confused as it in the geographic center. I later learned it was the populous west, similar to the US as a whole.
Historically west Texas was mainly Comanche Territory. The order of succession Texas filed in the lead up to the Civil War also stated in it the failure of the U.S. to protect Texans from Comanche attacks from the west
West Texas has as much precipitation as most of the Middle East nations. Israel grows crops in the Negev desert with less than an inch of annual rainfall.
West Texas is great though. I went to military school out there in a small town called Sheffield. Population of 600 lol. It’s crazy literally seeing the heatwave come towards you in the summer.
As a Texan I can say you did a great job man. For a guy thats clearly not from Texas, you've done an amazing job with this history and the whole of the video. The only small thing would be that the runaway scrape, they kind just ran to the sabine river, and if they needed to they would enter the US. This really didn't hurt the population too too much, other than they destroyed the infrastructure behind them. This was a great video, would love to see one about texas if it was a country.
Who you calling nobody? El Paso 700k + population. Lots of smaller towns and cities on the western portion of Texas. Used to be 3rd safest city in US, don’t know if it still is due to the surge. Lots of oil resources still here.
Texas fought for the right to have representation in Mexican congress as was promised by the government. Eventually, Texas fought for independence from Mexico. Texas won at the Battle of San Jacinta in 1836. Texas then became the Republic of Texas.
Fought to restore the constitution. Later than independence. Texas revolution was part of a series of wars in Mexico over federalism. Literally, one of the generals that fought against the Texians, went back home after the war, and raised an army for the same reason as the Texians.
Mexico abolished slavery and forbade it in all its territories under its President Guerrero. At that time the Mexican government called Texas, "El estado de Coahuila y Tejas", so it already had a named designation on maps. But white folks just would not give up their slaves. The schools don't teach that in the required 7th grade Texas history curriculum for every school child in Texas. Texas kind'a wants to sweep that epoc under the sagebrush. Even today there are texas history buffs who will violently react to anyone who dares besmerch Texas as anything other than holy ground. Hey, it was a different time, white folks treated Black folks as property, and hated Mexicans as if they were vermin. They weren't too kind to the Native Tribes peoples either. Folks get riled-up when they find out the reason the "Texas Rangers" were actually formed, & It wasn't for law enforcement. They were "Texas' Bouncer Service"; killing and kicking Mexicans, and Natives off land that white folks wanted. Also, chasing down escaped slaves. I'm sure I'll get hateful comments for this post. But at this day and age, white folks just need to own-up to the facts that their ancestors werent the romanticized heroes of the plains. They were racist a**holes. Texas has changed a lot though over time. But just beneath its polished surface still lurks the fomenting roots of hostility, and revenge. Y'all have a nice day.
I was just hoping that all of the small towns would become ghost towns and everyone just live in the cities so texas is 100% urbanized and cities get improved
Yeah i came from the west side, its harsh, hot AF, everything bites, stabs, burns u if u touch it, no water, flat, no trees, very unforgiving territory.
Versed, Midland does have an airport. It was even expanded to also incorporate spacecraft, as well. While oil has always been boom and bust through the years, the Midland area has a greater chance of thriving than it's ever had. So does the West Texas region.
Born and raised in El Paso in the 60’s and 70’s great place to live and grow up where else can you go 30 minutes from your house and party with Mexican Hookers until 5:00 AM when we called it a night. lol.
Didn't watch the video because it is very simple. West Texas is a desert. El Paso gets about 10 inches of rain each year. There is not many larges rivers either. There is ground water in parts of West Texas but it is mostly used for agriculture.
As a person born and raised in Dallas, I WISH more people would move to West Texas. Dallas-Ft Worth, Houston, San Antonio and Austin are full. Meanwhile West Texas got more tumbleweeds than it does people. Y'all got El Paso, Abilene, Lubbock, Amarillo, Laredo, all just sitting there EMPTY, POOR and UNDERDEVELOPED. Y'all could legit create an entire new civilization out there! Quit coming to Dallas, y'all are the reason the construction never ends!
Midland is consistently listed in one of the top wealthiest cities in the nation so your comment is incorrect. If you were to ask anyone that lives in Midland, they feel the same about all the crime, overcrowding and filth in Dallas.
Long answer: Desert
Short answer: Desert
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And Comanches.
and plains
Actually it’s mostly plains, the true desert doesn’t start until you get west of midland
@@martinrodriquez3304 Even Midland gets significantly less rain that anything east of I-35. It would be very difficult for a DFW or Houston metro area to survive out there.
I needed a good laugh today...no commercial Airports? Lubbock, Midland, Abilene, San Angelo, and El Paso all have commercial flights. Stock footage of Deserts...lol! Come on man!😂😂
That and the fact that the "only" major city is El Paso. What abt lubbock, amarillo, midland, san angelo, etc. Yeah made me smh too
@@jaredhardaway7842 I am a native West Texan and I kinda agree with the video, West Texas only has one major city and 2/3 of it is in Mexico.
Exactly. I work for Southwest and we cover all of those except Abilene and San Angelo. We go to Amarillo as well.
Yeah most of this is a pretty uneducated take. The video would be pretty small if he just said it doesn't rain very much west of the llano estacada. Amarillo has an international airport as well that used to be an option for the space shuttle because it's so long.
Not that convincing.
West Texas is not for the weak... hot, cold, dry, windy, hail the size of baseballs, pumas, rattlesnakes, scorpions, tornadoes, endless straight roads, tumbleweeds, 72oz steaks, and worst of them all... Texas Tech Sorority Girls... 😂 but yes it's worth visiting...
Speak for yourself, those Texas Tech Sorority girls have made my world go round many times over brutha 😂
@@honkykong610 🤣 b careful, man...
I was stationed in El Paso they definitely had dust storms there much like Iraq back in the day.
S/o from the 806
Hvac residential installs lol
People come here for work that’s about it, I love West Texas born and raised.
Right! Plus, its quite peaceful in panhandle.
Tx born and raised, basically raised in Midland back in the 90s and early 2000s
Let’s gooooooo
Yes sir from that Pecos
From East Texas. Anybody I know that’s been to west and south Texas worked in the oil fields and one guy that went to Texas Tech
Amarillo to Ft Worth on 287 looks like mad max movie set.
Midland-Odessa does have an airport served by Southwest, Delta, American and United. All major airlines. It is a better served airport than Lubbock.
Represent that 432
Not better than Lubbock, but on par.
Yes oilfield workers use that airport 24/7
El Paso has airport too
Spaceship airport too
west and east texas seem different cultturally too. In far east texas you have more of a deep southern culture. Whereas west texas feels more southwestern
And the middle part is a mix of pretty much all over the country with a more recent tilt towards California, but also Midwesterners starting in the 1980s. And that's before you count immigrants from Asia, Latin America, Africa and some Caribbean countries.
Yeah. I’m from the part of Missouri that’s culturally “Deep South”.
I prefer west Texas.
@@austingee238 Interesting. I suspect that many of the historical cultural influences in many areas is already starting to fade. Much of that is due to 3 things: urbanization, domestic migration, and immigration. Of course, that is greatly influenced by how those 3 factors impact a given area. If an area has only a few people moving out and very few ever moving in, that location may hang on to its historical influences far longer than other places, perhaps even those located in the same state. Rural places in West Texas (and the Panhandle), South Texas, and East Texas are now facing a steady outmigration of their young people. Many of these places may become ghost towns by mid century, if not sooner: no jobs, no money, just sick old people.
@@gregorysouthworth783 Southeastern Missouri is a lot like that. You’ve either got to be a lawyer, doctor, teacher (if you’re married), or just so happen to know the right person to land a good job in order to live decent. Or, you know, sell meth. I didn’t have a college education, a popular last name, a connection to “important” people, or a willingness to manufacture, distribute, and sell methamphetamine so I left my hometown and, simply by having relatives from the area, I went to Lubbock, Texas.
Lubbock itself is a nice city. At least compared to Saint Louis and Springfield, Missouri or Memphis, Tennessee - the places my hometown is practically equidistant to.
The rural area outside Lubbock… well it’s technically West Texas but it’s close enough to the panhandle to all be farm land. Not really all that interesting. I’m from the Ozarks. I like the trees and rivers and hills and well New Mexico ain’t too far down the road.
Jobs are plentiful and you don’t have to be related to one of four families to have one of those decent jobs. I make about 45k per year and my wife makes 40k so we’re living about as well as the average Lubbock resident. Not too bad. Not high on the hog. Just right, imo. I couldn’t do that back home.
Culturally - SE Missouri is very much “the south will rise again” country. And no I don’t mean “conservative”, I mean “I’d h-ng *one* from a tree if the law would let me”. It’s mostly backwooded hillbillies. Rednecks are okay, methed up cousin “loving” hillbillies are not okay. West Texas is still “country”, although it’s more cowboy and a lot less redneck. It’s politically conservative like all of the best parts of Texas. It’s, well, Texas. Can’t beat that.
Eastern Texas, especially around Texarkana and Tyler just really feels like a flatter version of Southeastern Missouri - culturally.
Bingo. U r spot on. Houston is literally the portal from the southwest to the south. east of Houston is so different cultural from what’s west of Houston. Houston is a mix of both
Midland does have an airport. Small and incredibly scary to fly into when it’s windy
I’ve never been scared to fly into Midland.
@@JerCarman That's because you haven't been in the "window"
@@suzanneterrey4499 what does that mean?
@@JerCarman Look at the original comment. I was only responding to Joelaidodiaz.
@@suzanneterrey4499 okay. It says it is a reply to me and I didn’t know what your comment meant. 😊
Some of the smaller towns are already (sadly) turning into ghost towns. This needs to change. It really should be an opportunity for people to make an investment. With more people moving into Texas from other states, places like Midland, Lubbock, and San Angelo ought to offer an alternative for economic prosperity as Dallas, Houston, Austin, and San Antonio are getting built out. I'd even like to see Fort Stockton become a city. Hey, why not?
Yeah but people still think that scrub land is worth thousands per acre. Not sure about west Tx but I looked into land in southeast NM. The prices are ridiculous!
I love West Texas and will never leave, Thank you for the laugh
Do not forget the amount of rivers and water sources in the east. Humans will always gravitate towards the nearest water source.
Hi @Versed love your content! I was curious to know on how you edit your videos. Was planning on making similar educational content such as yours regarding global topics and wanted to know how you get your cuts of cities and other locations including what editing software you use. I'm a complete novice to making UA-cam videos but would love to get a general idea on how you do it.
The Comanches kept settlers out of the llano estacado (the flat plains that contain Lubbock and Amarillo) until the 1870s, then the area was dominated by enormous cattle ranches until the 1900s, the towns and cities in this area are very young and small
Great Video! As a resident of Odessa TX I completely agree and we are taking steps to get out of here withen the next year or 2 before the oil bubble pops. Luckily are jobs are not oil related.
PS: we have a deascent size airport in Midland TX we really don't have to drive to Lubbock, El Paso or Dallas to take a flight.
I grew up in Odessa oil goes in cycles. Like this person said, boom and bust… and when there is a bust it can get hard. There are very few jobs that are not impacted, even if you don’t work directly in the oil industry. I loved growing up there in the late 50’s -early 70’s. Graduated from Permian in 1973. We moved away in 1994. It’s definitely very different now than when I lived there. I’ll keep my good memories, but I am happy I no longer live there. My son and one adult grandson still lives there. 😊
Spelling has left the chat... Smh. Stay in school kids.
people are moving here by the truckload
Is there good grass for cows and horses? anyone please
Sum it up. That side is hot and dry. Nobody wants to live there and lack of greenery and trees. Central, south and east have the opposite. Yes it’s hot. But there’s water ways and trees and seems like a place you’d wanna live. West Texas is depressing as it gets. Horrible places to live out there.
I’ll agree and disagree, only that it’s ugly because there’s amazing caves, mountains, and the biodiversity.
I’m from a town around 30 miles west of San Antonio. That town still is pretty much same in terms of growth, but I moved to the Austin area in 2016, and Austin and the surrounding areas have grown and changed tremendously in the past 5-7 years.
The company I work for in Lubbock is currently providing the Structural Steel for a new school in Wink TX...also Lubbock has Preston International Airport...yes, lots of wind and dust!!
As a Texan having been raised in N. Texas and going to school in the South Plains and living in the Panhandle for many years I can't wait to move back out there. I love the people and I love the low humidity and wide open spaces. I have lived in Houston, DFW, Lubbock(for school), Amarillo area, Corpus Christi(worst place I ever lived) and San Antonio. I have never lived in El Paso or the Valley but I've been to both and no thanks. They call DFW-Austin, San Antone and Houston the "Golden Triangle" and it is just way too crowded. I am an old Gen-Xer born in the 1960's and can't stand how much Texas has grown. The traffic is rediculous and the people that have moved here, mostly, are not too friendly. I'm tired of the Californians moving here. Don't California my Texas.
👍 I agree
Red Raider?
I've met a few people who moved here from California. They moved here to get away from the bs going on in California. My only issue is they are driving up property values
Your last four sentences couldn’t be any more accurate. 🍻 ✌️ We’ve lost the friendly attitudes as more transplants with bad manners flood in.
“Don’t Texas my Comanchero”. Quanah Parker Comanche chief
tbh I actually prefer west Texas over the rest of the state. Ya we don’t have the big cities, but we have mountains, starry skies at night, mesquite wood for our bbqs and our beer is just as cold as anywhere else. Abilene is home to me and I couldn’t care less about how anyone feels about it and if it’s not for them.
Where do you have mountains? I’ve been all over Tx and not a mountain to be seen! Not saying they don’t exist but they must be scarce.
@@turdferguson12 guadalupe mountains, Davis mountains, Franklin mountains dyor
@@turdferguson12 everything south of highway 10 after (west of) fort Stockton is mountains. That whole big bend area, from the river to highway 10. Mt. Livermore is a popular spot to stop on a roadtrip. Then there is the Franklin mountains that El Paso sits at the base of. Then the Guadalupe mountains. Then just a lot of "foothills" like really big gigantic hills that are very very rocky.
Sure these mountains may not be the Rocky's, or very forested like the Lincoln National Forest mountains in New Mexico which is 40 miles north of the Texas border. BUT they are definitely mountains, and definitely feel big and grand compared to the eastern of half of the state.
Some "mountain towns" ( which are more of towns surrounded by mountains rather than in or on top of the mountains) include: North El Paso, Pine Springs, Fort Davis, Redford, Alpine, Shafter.
Like I said, most will just be extremely extremely big hills that are super rocky, more like "mountain foothills". But there is a lot of true mountains 🌄 in Texas, they just don't have towns because they are protected conservation lands or national parks since they are so unique to the whole country ecologically and "rare" in Texas.
True mountains include the Big Bend national park, Franklin Mountains, Guadalupe Mountains and Mt. Livermore mountains.
Big Bend and Franklin Mountains are my favorite. But all are very cool.
I do love my Abilene texas
@@turdferguson12 You should visit Big Bend National Park. Fort Davis and the McDonald Observatory - on top of a small mountain - are also worth a visit.
A few minutes with Google Maps, satellite view, of that area should be illuminating.
Good to know I'm part of the 10% that lives in this area. Most of the info is good. I'm in the Panhandle area where it depends on oil, natural gas and ranching. Yes the wind sucks, especially from Feb-Apr, but I do like that I feel I'm in the middle of the country.
I currently live in San Antonio
But I was raised in Midland
And I always hated how windy it was and hearing you say, that was hilarious 😂
Makes me feel grateful that I live in a small town in the South Texas/Mexican border. Eagle Pass to be exact. We might not have that many places to go shop around in but I’ll rather have that than deal with high crime and heavy traffic in bigger cities like San Antonio, Austin or even Houston etc. The only issues we have here is a high amount of illegal immigrants coming in without trying to get asylum legally.
Manifest destiny
You were one of those illegals once, you turned out just fine.
Humpty and floods could be added
If you look at a satellite view of Texas, that line basically divides the arid parts from the green parts. West of abilene gets progressively drier (all the way up until California coast) and east of abilene everything gets progressively greener (all the way to east coast).
Do we know when ESPN breaks even on the ACC Network? Assuming that will be a factor in ESPNs actions considering their investment and Charlotte office.
Thank you so much for doing a piece on the Permian Basin! I don't see too many. Good job! I would love to share a few more features about the PB with you, if I may. I can see a lot of people spoke up about us having an airport. Don't know offhand what a large airport is but ours is 1,600 acres. Gets you where you need to go without a whole lot of tomfoolery. Please look at some images of our sunsets/sunrises. They are quite breathtaking - infinity framed since nothing blocks the view. In addition to our oilfields, we have I think the second largest wind turbine fields as well in Sterling City. I'm sure I'll be corrected quite quickly if I'm wrong but seems like I read second to California. Also, in the spring, there are endless fields of yellow wildflowers that grow under them as far as the eye can see. Truly spectacular. Your stats on our oil production seem in line with what I hear; however, did you know the residents in the Permian Basin pay higher gas prices than any other location in Texas? Again, I'll be quickly corrected if that has changed. I wish I could tell you why that is but I honestly don't know. Maybe someone in the comments can enlighten me. You mention our windstorms that pop out of nowhere. It just sounds so innocuous when one says windstorms. To be a little more description, there was a wind storm I believe in 2018 or 2019 that came right through downtown Midland. Seems like it was 1-2 miles high and was moving at about 60-70 mph. We got to watch it hit our office building through a wall of windows and was just thankful it wasn't a tidal wave. And lastly there is another weird little weather anomaly that I've only experienced in Midland/Odessa. Sometimes a windstorm gets caught under raining clouds so instead of getting raindrops, huge orange mud balls start pounding your car. There's a name for it but I can't remember what it is (mud rain?). It's only happened to me once but I'll never forget it. I was told it is dirt that blows in from Lubbock. Again, thank you so much for covering the Permian Basin. It was nice to see Midland/Odessa.
I wouldn’t mind retiring in Lubbock, has about everything you need and less of the big city inconveniences-construction/traffic. Cheaper cost of living too
Water. That's it. Personally, I love west Texas...especially if you can find and be near a water source.
Geography is important when it comes to countries and populations. Also, if the US had the same type of geography and consistent weather evenly throughout the country's territory, the population will be evenly distributed.
Traveling East to West across the U.S., population density really drops when you cross the Mississippi River. It really drops again when you get to the High Plains states.
In Texas it really drops when you cross IH-35.
If you drive east from Austin, you can observe the trees slowly getting taller as you approach Louisiana.
If you drive west from Austin, you can observe the trees getting shorter and shorter. By the time you connect with IH-10 west of Fredericksburg, it's desert and the dominant life form is prickly pear cactus.
It's all about water, or its absence.
I know there are a lot of criticisms of these types of videos, but I honestly think they are good jumping off points for people to learn about human geography,
Except for a great portion being false. But go on......
Bro USA which states highest literacy rate please make video
Being from Midland I’ve only experienced 70+mph wind during severe weather. 40-50 mph wind is more realistic.
My first wife was from Midland, really hated it there. She grew up in a house full of hunting trophies, insisted that she was scarred from being stared at by dead animals every day. Trophies in the living room did not bother me that much, but the deer head and stuffed fox in the dining room was kind of weird.
The American Southeast(Southern Atlantic Coast) was settled at the same time as the Northeast.
Have you been to west Texas? Its a change you notice. Everything east of it is a mix of tree's mountains hills or water. West Texas none of that. Try it out. The first time I ever felt real fear while driving on half a tank of gas was west Texas.
21 million people live in the Texas triangle.
Lol im from San Angelo Texas loved it and would have raised a family there but i got a great opportunity where im at
The great divide, east of 45, lakes. Rivers, trees, water plenty, west of 45, desert, wind, heat.
Wait what happened to the midland airport!? I used to fly to Dallas regularly.
Still here. This dude don't know shit.
Love West Texas born and raised and live here now please this video is right don’t come here stay away!😔……😁
We call it "the dry line"
Was it that hard to research that Midland-Odessa has an international airport.
I prefer W Texas, East is incredibly overpopulated and the weather ie humidity is insane…..
it would be interesting if we could do some sort of geoengineering
Because of Anton Chigurh
You are wrong about the closest airport being Lubbock. Midland International Air & Space Port is located between Midland & Odessa.
West Texas is dryer and less humid than the Eastern part.
I'm from Texas, who the hell wants to live in the desert with high winds .? Or the panhandle with all them tornadoes. I will stay put in Austin.
Texan Explanation: Because there’s nothing out there but oil fields, desert, and wide open spaces that you can’t do much with. Still love west Texas.
That is a reason why western Oregon is more dense than Eastern Oregon. That is why people don’t live in Anywhere east of the Cascade Mountains.
South Texas is huge in itself with Laredo and The valley confusion 😭🤣
I live in Vernon texas and i aprove rhis message
Unfortunately water is a necessity.
Yeah I live on west side of Texas
Kermit & Wink are not ghost towns now. They have a solid population.
Your line literally cuts through my town
No airport in Midland? Tell that to the four airlines who flew 61,000 people last year.
Because we keep our oil stored there 👍
When my friend told me San Antonio was considered west Texas I was visibly confused as it in the geographic center. I later learned it was the populous west, similar to the US as a whole.
San Antonio is NOT considered west texas. Your friend is wrong.
San Antonio is considered southwest
Your friend is lying, go down there and it’s the capital of South Texas, all the border cities consider it “The city”.
It's on the edge but not quite there.
Historically west Texas was mainly Comanche Territory. The order of succession Texas filed in the lead up to the Civil War also stated in it the failure of the U.S. to protect Texans from Comanche attacks from the west
West Texas is a big desert and gets hot, very little water.
West Texas has as much precipitation as most of the Middle East nations. Israel grows crops in the Negev desert with less than an inch of annual rainfall.
West Texas is great though. I went to military school out there in a small town called Sheffield. Population of 600 lol. It’s crazy literally seeing the heatwave come towards you in the summer.
As a Texan I can say you did a great job man. For a guy thats clearly not from Texas, you've done an amazing job with this history and the whole of the video. The only small thing would be that the runaway scrape, they kind just ran to the sabine river, and if they needed to they would enter the US. This really didn't hurt the population too too much, other than they destroyed the infrastructure behind them. This was a great video, would love to see one about texas if it was a country.
Except that he didn't. But you are another emotional fool.
This is hilarious being from West Texas
Just moved from Midland to Houston lol
West Texas is gorgeous, but it does comprise that chunk of America just East of the Rockies notorious for nasty, erratic weather.
Who you calling nobody? El Paso 700k + population. Lots of smaller towns and cities on the western portion of Texas. Used to be 3rd safest city in US, don’t know if it still is due to the surge. Lots of oil resources still here.
I've traveled tru west Texas and it's ghost town after ghost town and fields of nothing. I was glad to be back in South Texas after that.
Texas fought for the right to have representation in Mexican congress as was promised by the government. Eventually, Texas fought for independence from Mexico. Texas won at the Battle of San Jacinta in 1836. Texas then became the Republic of Texas.
Fought to restore the constitution. Later than independence. Texas revolution was part of a series of wars in Mexico over federalism. Literally, one of the generals that fought against the Texians, went back home after the war, and raised an army for the same reason as the Texians.
Mexico abolished slavery and forbade it in all its territories under its President Guerrero. At that time the Mexican government called Texas, "El estado de Coahuila y Tejas", so it already had a named designation on maps. But white folks just would not give up their slaves. The schools don't teach that in the required 7th grade Texas history curriculum for every school child in Texas. Texas kind'a wants to sweep that epoc under the sagebrush.
Even today there are texas history buffs who will violently react to anyone who dares besmerch Texas as anything other than holy ground. Hey, it was a different time, white folks treated Black folks as property, and hated Mexicans as if they were vermin. They weren't too kind to the Native Tribes peoples either. Folks get riled-up when they find out the reason the "Texas Rangers" were actually formed, & It wasn't for law enforcement. They were "Texas' Bouncer Service"; killing and kicking Mexicans, and Natives off land that white folks wanted. Also, chasing down escaped slaves. I'm sure I'll get hateful comments for this post. But at this day and age, white folks just need to own-up to the facts that their ancestors werent the romanticized heroes of the plains. They were racist a**holes. Texas has changed a lot though over time. But just beneath its polished surface still lurks the fomenting roots of hostility, and revenge. Y'all have a nice day.
Midland has a commercial airport 🛫
Well the main reason is it’s desolate and there’s nothing there
I'm just here to note the rare accurate use of "Western Texas" and enjoy West Texans getting defensive about their cute little airports.
Yes! Please dont move here. This video is 100% correct. Stay home. And tell your friends too.
People do live there. Their just not registered
Nobody gonna call him out on that Louisiana purchase "fact"? Did nobody pay attention in history class in school?
Republic of the rio grande, Laredo as the capital of south Texas and northern Mexican states.
When I’m out the military I’m moving over there bruh 😙
Driven across TX many many times. The drive gets pretty boring west of Dallas. It’s cool to see but wouldn’t want to live there.
I was just hoping that all of the small towns would become ghost towns and everyone just live in the cities so texas is 100% urbanized and cities get improved
I live in West Texas it's laid back and quiet in some spots
Yeah i came from the west side, its harsh, hot AF, everything bites, stabs, burns u if u touch it, no water, flat, no trees, very unforgiving territory.
Midland has an airport
Versed, Midland does have an airport. It was even expanded to also incorporate spacecraft, as well. While oil has always been boom and bust through the years, the Midland area has a greater chance of thriving than it's ever had. So does the West Texas region.
Odessa and Midland are groing into one another and becoming a very urban area
It’s tornado alley. Why would anyone live on that side.
Fantasy: No One wants to live there
Reality: 331.4 M people live in West Texas (2020)
Could a person that actually lives in Texas do a video about Texas .
Born and raised in El Paso in the 60’s and 70’s great place to live and grow up where else can you go 30 minutes from your house and party with Mexican Hookers until 5:00 AM when we called it a night. lol.
lol, can’t do it now though! I mean and not get killed!
@@turdferguson12 No definitely not these days but back in the day it was standard operating procedure. Lol
@@georgemichael9106 I lived in Alamogordo for 8 years, seen those Juarez horror stories on the news. Hate that I missed out on the “good ole days”
I would agree 100%. I drove from El Paso to Dallas, there was only Abilene in-between
Flies.
Yeppers. Desert desolation.
I'm from El Paso 🤚🤚
I hate it here lol
Nobody except about 3 million people.
Didn't watch the video because it is very simple. West Texas is a desert. El Paso gets about 10 inches of rain each year. There is not many larges rivers either. There is ground water in parts of West Texas but it is mostly used for agriculture.
So I guess I’m a nobody
Now everyone will move there.
Two words answer that question Dust & Tumblweed
The reason no one lives in the middle is cause of the tornadoes
As a person born and raised in Dallas, I WISH more people would move to West Texas. Dallas-Ft Worth, Houston, San Antonio and Austin are full. Meanwhile West Texas got more tumbleweeds than it does people. Y'all got El Paso, Abilene, Lubbock, Amarillo, Laredo, all just sitting there EMPTY, POOR and UNDERDEVELOPED. Y'all could legit create an entire new civilization out there! Quit coming to Dallas, y'all are the reason the construction never ends!
And the reason the cost of living is thru the roof lol. Been in Dallas 7 years and we might have to move to the burbs if these prices keep rising.
I'm leaving midland and coming to the Dallas burbs nxt yr 😂😂😂😂
You should lead the move.
Midland is consistently listed in one of the top wealthiest cities in the nation so your comment is incorrect. If you were to ask anyone that lives in Midland, they feel the same about all the crime, overcrowding and filth in Dallas.
West Texas is beautiful all that open space!
I hate it here ima get out of texas asap