By: SaborDeSoledad

In reply to Nicole.

I would also like to stick up for North Texas! The DFW metro area is perfectly nice, and Denton is a cool town with lots of live music, good food and nice people. It’s nothing compared to Austin or San Antonio (the best parts of Texas in my opinion), but at least the urban/semi-urban areas of North Texas are nothing to sneeze at.

This speaks to a larger sentiment I hear a lot, which is that Texas is the country’s #1 most awful homophobic ogre, which it’s not. Yes, there are bad parts, as in most states that are not California/the New England area. But on the whole Texas’ urban areas (where most of the population resides) are quite progressive.

Crazy people from Texas are often the loudest of the crazies – I’ll give you that – but Texas is nowhere near as bad as it gets (I’m looking at you, Utah, Alabama, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Kansas, Arizona, Wyoming, Louisiana, etc.).

Also Arthur is the cutest thing I’ve ever seen. He always looks like he’s thinking.