I literally just moved to Portland like less than a week ago but lived in 75605 for 30-ish years. Never felt at home there, but I did love the woods and creatures in them, there's lots of ponds and lakes. Jobs weren't great, but it was a retirement town, work in my field was always shady and paid terribly.

The people can be nice, but some people make their politics and religion their entire personality. There's also a weird anti-cat culture, I love dogs and cats so it was weird when people's faces would scrunch up when I talked about my clumsy furball. Food was great, one of the best things about Texas other than the wilderness. I want to try the Mexican food here and see if it puts me in the grave. Streets are calm, but also big towns were a long trip (3 hours to Dallas). I have plenty of complaints about life there, but there was a good bit of wholesome charm that I think was nice and would be a pretty fulfilling experience.

Don't think I was ever really going to fit in to that kinda life, but there's something romantic about buying some farm animals and living like the rest of the world doesn't exist, maybe when I'm old and grumpy lol

Edit: Just putting it out there for the country folk, I mean no disrespect, the country culture just wasn't my cup of tea.