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      Definitely part of it, never met a Texan man who didn’t rage and throw a shitfit over the most minor of inconveniences.

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        I used to do regular driving trips to Mexico from NC and I swear to god everything was always fine in every state I crossed. People were nice, no police problems, roads well maintained, no traffic and quick city bypasses.

        But when I cross into Texas suddenly everything would turn to shit. The people were shitty, the roads were shitty, the radio stations were shitty, the police were shitty, Houston was a massive cluster fuck of detours and pot holes, the heat, the smells, literally EVERYTHING was just a bit shittier there than anywhere else. It was always a blessing to get across the Rio Grande and back into a civilized country.

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          You drove through one big city and it sucked. LA and Chicago would have sucked to drive through as well.

          New York is better now I hear since they implemented congestion pricing.

          Correct me if I’m wrong, Huston is the biggest city I have ever been to.

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            Cities aren’t a problem if you can avoid driving into them. But Houston literally had no bypass because they were being worked on. You were detoured through a maze of city streets. So if a detour sign was missing or fallen over (and they often were) then you were lost. This was before GPS and smartphones were common.

            It was like that for years.