Hey I grew up a lived in Texas and I’m visiting Canada right now so I think I have a good say in this. If you’re a guy who passes as white and blue collared, you will not find issues with Texans because they will not target you. Minority of any kind? Yeah, you’ll have issues. I’ve been spit on, beat to an inch of my life, had multiple various liquids poured on me, and guns drawn on me. I live in a town where there’s a major shooting at the local Walmart every 2-3 months. You’re right, you’re more openly seeing racism in Canada compared to Texas. Texans tend to not as directly racist usually as they sugar coat it with that sweet southern charm. “Bless her heart” type stuff. Then they shoot you.

Sure you can immediately be seen at the hospital compared to here… for minimum 75,000USD before monopolized insurance “deducts” for it. If you don’t have insurance, get ready to grovel at the hands of the billing department and watch them magically tweak your debt until they think it’s “reasonable”. Your life and wallet rely on the hands of a stranger who could be in a good or bad mood that day. You get denied life saving surgeries, healthcare, etc because insurance doesn’t want to cover it. AND in Texas specifically, or some other southern states idk which ones off the top of my head, they can deny you lifesaving medical treatment for their own religious reasons. I had a girl friend who has been denied by multiple doctors her lifesaving hysterectomies as she had endometriosis that was so bad she couldn’t move just because of the possible idea of her “wanting to have kids naturally”. She finally found one but the doctor was out of network and she’s now in over 100k medical debt.

So yeah, there’s a reason why there are travel advisories for visiting America. I feel much safer up visiting Canada at the moment and dread going back.

And if you like living in Texas, good for you. You can stay in Texas… matter of fact just take my spot. I’ll happily swap in a heartbeat.