Dallas, Texas

I just wanted to quickly update you that "the Dallas thing" is back on. (No idea what happened to the other person.)

I spent the last week looking around in the Dallas/Fort Worth area, as well as interviewing with potential colleagues, bosses, and bosses' bosses. The result is, I like the area much better than I thought -- especially Fort Worth. Also, my future boss called me in the afternoon and said they want me, and are going to make me an offer next week.

I am now officially un-saved from this fate worse than death Eva talked about. (And PS: if Eva thinks Tulsa has more or nicer Art Deco architecture than Fort worth, I need to check out Tulsa sometime soon. After all, it's just a day's drive away ...)

Screams/oops, whoops, good going, kiddo.









Does this mean some of us will be faced with visiting Dallas? and, soon, vice versa?
Well, that's, er, jumping the gun. Let's first hope it all works out.
Pleased to hear.

If I ever get to Texas, can I meet... Thomas, and Lola and Bernie (we've met and hope to again, given timing; Edgarblythe, and Shewolf and Chai and DrewDad and Coluber and PDiddie and Mrs. PDiddie (we've met, I miss them.)
I know there are more.. Texas is full of pith. Isn't InfraBlue there? Does Snood go back?

And some of my mentors designed a walk in S. Antonio, years ago; I'd like to see it. (I don't know what they did on that famous walk, a fraction or a bunch. Still, I'd like to see it).

I have to meet McBeans, don't remember her cognomen on a2k, ah, Tartarin, that was it, and visit whatshisnames's place. Yeah, McMurtry's bookstore.

I regard Tartarin highly. Sharp, very sharp.

my opinion, of course.

Tartarin has, last I heard, three corgies, I guess I'd just simply dissolve at the sight.

So, crossing fingers, Thomas, never mind my musings, but for you, and your musings, that you meet people that set sparks.

All I can add, Thomas, is that you and dys have an odd notion of a day's drive. Or maybe the days are bigger in Texas?

Texas, hmmm. Did I tell you that art deco is really our favourite style?

(agrees with Roger)

Well, yes, I get that, Walter..

..... Thinking, you could even do more in day than Fort Worth > Tulsa ...

Thinking, you're kidding.

I guess I'm more of a walker in place, so never mind. If I make it to Ft. Worth, I'd stick around a bit. And Tulsa, I'd be in Eva's grasp.

We vary here, on a2k, about travel mode. I won't knock other people's ways. CI and I are virtual opposites, but I enjoy his trips.

So, you want us to skip Ft. Worth and Tulsa, or stop in Tulsa, Wallter?






She says, snippily.

I don't remember all the details, but I remember reading many positive items about Ft. Worth. Can we not rest here a bit?

Hey, congratulations on the offer, Thomas!

My in-laws are in Ft. Worth, let me know if you have any specific questions. They're going to be moving soon evidently though (I say "evidently" because they've presented it as something that WILL happen but they have a tendency to change their minds about this sort of thing...)

The part of Ft. Worth that I've seen was not very impressive, but it was just the suburbs. There are thoroughly unimpressive suburbs of Columbus and everyplace else that I've lived (and liked).

Days drive.....hehehe....

get ready to rack of your frequent flyer miles if you're planning on trips to Tulsa, Houston or Austin.

That's just 300 miles - or am I wrong?

You'd be welcome to, once I get settled here -- and so would be everybody else in this thread.


You're kidding, right? Of course the days are bigger in Texas! What isn't. (Certainly the steaks are -- and the legends about the superior taste of Texas beef appear to be true, according to the not-yet-representative sample I tested.)


Well, you are spoiled by Chicago of course, which has a much larger downtown with a cornucopia of Art Deco in it. But Fort Worth does have a small but nice, well-groomed, walkable (!) downtown with lots of nice old buildings. A mix of Art Deco and whatever came before Art Deco kind of neoclassical. Dowtown Fort Worth contrasted very positively with downtown Dallas -- which is huge, mostly ugly, and fortunately under construction. If the constructors get it right, there's hope. It's actually an important point because suburbs with malls depress me. If at all possible, I'll try to live in a real city.


Thanks! And I see what you're saying about "evidently". I'm similarly lax as your in-laws with the word "obviously".


I'm pretty sure you'd like Downtown Fort Worth. As I said, it's not as Great (TM) as downtown Chicago or Manhattan, but it's very nice.


That's what them folks at Google maps told you, didn't they? Well, y'all gotta remember that this is measured in Texas miles. And miles here in Texas are bigger then elsewhere in the world -- just as our days are.

Off to look for Molly Ivins audiobooks to improve my Texan English. Y'all have a verra nahce day!

I won't call you a cowboy, till I've seen you ride!

Stetson

Thomas

Sincere congratulations. You'll love the amount of sunlight down there, I expect, and the astounding electrical storms. I didn't see Ft Worth but Austin, not too far away, is a wonderful city.


From Molly (there's an individual I really miss) you'll get not only the Texas accent but also a wonderful sense of regional humor. For example, she once related a story of visiting a Republican politician (and friend) in his office just after some long tall Texan had been in to see him. The politician said, "Molly, his pants were so tight that if he'd farted he would have blown his boots off."

I feel a need, I feel a need to reiterate. Tejas is not THE WEST, Tejas is the old south.

Our needs are there entirely for their expression.