02-01-2007, 04:29 AM | #11 |
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Odessa is next to Midland in West Texas. It is not known for its physical beauty. Nor its embrace of culture. I am sure there are wonderful things about it, though, as any resident would point out. It is a oil boom/bust town. I think George Bush claims to be a native of Midland, Texas.
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02-01-2007, 04:43 AM | #12 |
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I lived in Odessa for one year. I met many nice people there. I have never been back, nor do I have a desire to go. It is, quite honestly, flat and ugly. It is an oil town and fills with roughnecks on Friday and Saturday nights. It is home to the world's largest Jack Rabbit. (really) It has no sewer drains so, on the very rare occasion when it rains, it causes torrential rivers of water in the streets. When it is not raining, which is to say almost always, it is dusty. The dust is insidious. It gets into every crack and crevice of everything. It is also where the real Friday Night Lights took place. Midland is nicer. Odessa is no place to move to, if you can avoid it.
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02-02-2007, 02:19 AM | #14 |
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The best piece of advice that I got when we bought our first house was to sit tight and do nothing drastic for the first 6 months. After 6 months, you will be comfortable with your home and see what you like and dislike. Getting rid of a living room will hurt your case especially if there is really no place to sit on the first floor except in a formal dining room. A nice spacious kitchen is awesome but it will be a setback without any real living space on that floor.
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The house we live in now is 4/2/2, 2200 sf on a large lot (big back yard I mean but still a city lot) and will sell for $190K or so when we move to the new house. |
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Also on the property tax thing. They are definitley high but that's becasue there is no state income tax. And as the fiscal conservative that I am, I support that because it's basically a consumption oriented tax. If you make $250K / year but live in a $200K house, you pay the same tax as your neighbor who makes much less than that.
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I just want more money in my pocket when I get paid than I do now.
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Of course, I also say this as a card-carrying cheapskate. I would have even more to invest for the future or to bury in the backyard because I don't really spend a lot of my disposable income. A consumption tax would be good for me. As for being human, I can understand you having your doubts. My wife often tells me I need to act more human than like an animal. I can't help it if I get caught up in the moment of little league sports.
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