{"id":1097,"date":"2013-11-04T19:42:04","date_gmt":"2013-11-04T19:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orangesand.com\/?p=1097"},"modified":"2013-11-04T19:42:04","modified_gmt":"2013-11-04T19:42:04","slug":"the-united-states-of-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/04\/the-united-states-of-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"The United States of TEXAS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WHY THE LONE START STATE IS AMERICA&#8217;S FUTURE!\u00a0 Do pick up a copy of this week&#8217;s TIME magazine\u00a0 and go to page 30.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not by accident that 3 of the 5 fastest-growing cities are in Texas.\u00a0 It&#8217;s more like destiny &#8211; by Tyler Cowen.\u00a0 For $300,000 in San Francisco you get a 210 sf loft apartment, in Chicago a 900 sq ft for the same price, but in Austin 3,052 sq ft for a 4 bdr, 3 bath home.\u00a0 Houston has NO zoning, but seems to work out OK.\u00a0 Too many rules and regulations hamper other cities and states.\u00a0 Yes, some jobs are low paying in Texas, but also more than their share of upper end salaries.\u00a0 Texas is weak on social services and needs to strengthen that area.\u00a0 In Texas people are friendly and look you in the eye.\u00a0 The cost of constant stress is not appealing and moving to Texas where the cost is acceptable and a good time to START FRESH.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WHY THE LONE START STATE IS AMERICA&#8217;S FUTURE!\u00a0 Do pick up a copy of this week&#8217;s TIME magazine\u00a0 and go to page 30.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not by accident that 3 of the 5 fastest-growing cities are in Texas.\u00a0 It&#8217;s more like destiny &#8211; by Tyler Cowen.\u00a0 For $300,000 in San Francisco you get a 210 sf [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1097"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1098,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097\/revisions\/1098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}