My friends from Cali: “how could you move to Texas, it’s way too closed minded and conservative there”

Reality: I haven’t experienced any of the racist shit I always experienced in SF/Oak. Its also way easier to make friends being new here than it was there

The internet is fake

I just feel like people should get out more and meet real people vs replaying the Twitter memes and images from the news in their heads and making up their minds. I’ve found this place to be a lot warmer than SF and the peninsula, that’s all in saying. I’m not saying it’s perfect

Houston, San Antonio, Dallas, Austin, Marfa, Waco

Have spent considerable amounts of time in each, for context