About What's it like living in Lubbock, Texas

What's it like living in Lubbock, Texas?
I am considering a possible move to Lubbock for my career from the Seattle area. I will not be working at the University or one of the Medical Centers and don't have any family in the area. Any insight would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!
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Lubbock. I still have post traumatic Stress. Actually I lived in Levelland for two years but I worked in Lubbuck. MY in laws still live there in a rural area on the outskirts out past East 4th street. What do you want to know? How the when the oil wells were capped people lost jobs in record numbers? Or How NAFTA devastated the area in the 90's and the closing of Reese Airforce base made it worse. It is an area that has high unemployment. Methamphetamine use is high. It is run By Biker gang the Hells Angels don't dare take on. Identity theft and hot check writing are rife in the West texas Area. It is like a death pall to drive past the boarded up windows in storefronts and wonder to my self how families get along there. Every spring it is tornado season and every Cotton harvest time no one can breathe. The dust storms are always fun. If it was bad enough I could sit in my house, with all of my doors and windows closed and still taste the dust in my mouth. You can see the storms coming your way as it is the South Plains. Dust storms are a reddish brown. During Tornado Season, you watch the Doppler radar and storm warnings. Tornado weather appears in black. Maybe things have gotten better since I left but I never believe the media or internet postings. When I left in 1999. there was a near 1 in four people unemployed. But trust me, the devastation Lubbock went through is not magically fixed in the space of ten years. I always tell anyone, if there is a hells half acre on Gods Green Earth it is in West Texas.
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You will be in such shock coming from Seattle that I don't recommend it. Lubbock is a barren and dry land of nothingness. It smells bad because of the lack of environmental standards on industry in Texas. You'll be 400 miles from nothing. It's very hot 8 months out of the year and cold in the winter. Cotton and cattle are king in that part of Texas. There is no culture and fine dining consists of chicken fried steak, nothing wrong with CFS, but Seattle is a wonderland of farmers markets, fresh fish, vegetables and excellent restaurants. Did I mention the lack of trees and water in West Texas? A large portion of the town is dirt-poor. Going to a fundamentalist Southern Baptist Church will be expected of you or else you might not ever advance in your job. You also better be a right-wing Republican and pro-gun.
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If you have a good job opportunity, you might consider moving to Lubbock. At least fly down for a visit instead of taking someone else's opinion. Honestly, Lubbock is not my favorite town in West Texas, but it's not even close to as bad as described above. Yes, Lubbock did get hit hard when the oil went south, but so did every other West Texas town. I have lived around Lubbock my whole life, I'm 23, and have never had a run in with the Hells Angels. Yes, in fact, the wind does blow about 60 miles an hour sometimes and it does stir up the cotton fields around, but you don't actually taste the dust in the air very often, especially from inside of your house. I'm not sure of the unemployment rate there, but I find it hard to believe that it is any higher than any other town at this time. There is plenty of shopping and a popular West Texas Lake. There is also a pretty good night life, nothing probably compared to Seattle, but there is something to do at least everynight. During the spring and summer there are tons of concerts that go on in Lubbock from Texas or Red Dirt Country to Rock. All in all, there are ups and downs of living in Lubbock, but you will only be able to determine that by taking a trip down there to take a look.
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http://money.cnn.com/2009/05/04/news/economy/colvin_rich.fortune/index.htm?postversion=2009050511 is a person who works and lives in Manhattan who makes $250,000/year rich compared to someone who lives and works in Lubbock, TX who makes $250,000/yr? what about someone who lives in a CN suburb as opposed to someone who lives in Louisiana if they both make $250k/year
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If someone has enough to enjoy life and its pleasures, one who delights in small things, one who is able to enjoy friends on any level, and one who is well read, one who is able to share, one who is able to survive the ups and downs of life's cycles. This may not sound rich, but it is enriched.
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It is relative. To someone who makes $50K a year $100K or more seems rich to someone making minimum wage a person making $10.00 an hour seems rich. It is relative. There is no magic number that says "your rich".
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Someone who is not suffering from anemia, as about one third of the people on earth are.
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