need infor/compelling information for living/working there.


I need help on learning about the city beyond my former collegiate experience with that town/school.

Have an interview with the school tomorrow and its a real possibility I am offered the job.

TIA!

Would a few pretty pictures help?

Sorry there haven't been more responses. All I can say is what I said on the General Board. The people are great, the weather is good with a few lousy exceptions. You're close to the mountains and a plane flight away from the big city.

You can live 30 miles from your job, and take only 30 minutes to get there.

I live 27 miles from my office and it takes me 30 minutes to get there.
As far as Lubbock goes, I am originally from SE Texas and relocated about 10 years ago. I now consider the South Plains home. You will have a hard time finding better people in any part of the state.

Basically what Canyon said.

Good Weather - low humidity, cool summer nights, sun shines almost all the time. Dust storms do not happen every day.

Entertainment - suburb night life, good restaurants, live music, movie theaters, whatever

Close to Mountains - Hiking, camping, skiing. 4 hours to Ruidoso, 5 to Santa Fe, 6 to Taos, 8 to Pagosa Springs, Colo.

Good hospitals

Low Crime

International airport w/ Southwest Airlines

City parks - big city parks, many with large lakes (retention ponds).

Friendly people

Educated populace - professors, doctors, financial, etc

Easy to navigate - city is a square grid, streets numerical and alphabetical, and intersect at right angles. You CAN'T get lost there.

Basically, it's a city of 230,000 people with pretty much the same stuff as Bryan
- College Station, maybe a little more










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Remoteness is overstated. If you HAVE to go to the metroplex, just shoot down 84 and then west on 20. Much of it is 75MPH speed limit. It's a snap. Or, you hop a SWA flight to anywhere you need to go.

So I originally posted this on the Outdoors Board. You want to know what it's like living in the Panhandle/South Plains? This may give you a clue.

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Those of you who have grown up in a farm community, as I did, have probably seen this type of thing before. A gentleman named Steve Jones was killed in a farm accident a few months ago. Yesterday, hundreds of his friends, neighbors and relatives showed up to harvest his crop for his family.

Lubbock Newspaper

Take the time to watch the video, it will warm your heart.

I didn't really know where on TexAgs to post this. I figured this board had the biggest viewership of folks would appreciate it. It combines the land, the good people of the Panhandle/South Plains, some interesting farm machinery, etc. And you guys would be above making fun of it being Lubbock/Tech related.








On a very personal note, in 1952, three years before I was born, dad contracted polio. My tough-as-anything mom took care of him, a four month old baby and the farm, in a day when women didn't really do that, and machinery was much more primitive and labor intensive.

Mom would place my infant brother on the bed with Dad (who could barely move) then go take care of the plowing, irrigating, harvest, etc.

The farmers in the community (Mom and Dad had just moved there the year before) came in and "laid by" the cotton crop in late summer, plowing and hoeing and getting it ready for harvest.

Dad recovered with little permanent damage, and lived another 59 years.

Mom and Dad never forgot that debt, and never stopped trying to repay it. I can't count the number of hours I spent on our tractor on someone else's farm when someone died or was sick.

One of my earliest memories is playing in a field as dozens of our neighbors brought in the harvest for the widow of another neighbor.

I've helped clean up the header of a combine where a neighbor was killed. Later, standing in his field watching the community finish his harvest, his widow hugs me. You don't forget those moments.

I've been blessed to be able to take care of a little bit of land belonging to a reservist who was called up to Iraq for a year.


May you all be blessed with friends and communities such as these. If you are ever in the situation where someone needs your help, I hope you take advantage of the double blessing of giving the help.

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Entertainment - suburb night life, good restaurants, live music, movie theaters, whatever

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Doh!!! I meant "superb" night life.

Something I typed sent that straight to auto-correct

Any updates from the OP?

What my wife and I have come to enjoy in Lubbock is the Drive-in movie theater - brings back old times. We live in Clovis and whenever there is a double feature we really like, will drive over on a Friday or Saturday. Get a room, go to movie, make our run to Sam's the next morning and eat at one of our favorite restaurants.

Makes for a nice little escape from the normal routine!

Interview was a phone interview and it went great.

In person interview is next week (took some time to get all parties in at one time).

Looking like this is going to be a real possibility and I'm excited about it, too.

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Easy to navigate - city is a square grid, streets numerical and alphabetical, and intersect at right angles. You CAN'T get lost there.

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Except in neighborhoods like Melonie Park and Lakeridge.

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Basically, it's a city of 230,000 people with pretty much the same stuff as Bryan
- College Station, maybe a little more

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That's exactly what sold my daughter to come to A&M, that BCS was so much like Lubbock.

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In person interview is next week (took some time to get all parties in at one time).

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PG, PM me when you're going to be in town and maybe we can do lunch or something.

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I'm flying to Dallas today but all flights to Lubbock are cancelled.

I'm going to see if they have any flights once I land and the sun has come out.

If not I fly in tomorrow morning and out tomorrow night. Thanks for the offer. I would have liked to pick your brain on living in Lubbock and working for tech.

If we make the move I'll get in touch to meet up.

Sounds good.

I love Lubbock, and working at Tech has been good. I've been here for19 years, if that's any indication.

Hope to see you soon.