Howdy all. I have been offered a job in San Angelo and was wondering if people from around that area can give me any advice as whether to take it or not (location being the major factor). I'm from Houston and am use to the big city life, so I'm not sure if I can adjust. Thanks for any input.

pros - you're not in Houston anymore. Outweighs all cons.

What part of the "Big City" do you think you will miss? Can I ask what company?

It is good to raise a family in. It is dry and semi arid, but it ain't Midland or Odessa! AND that is good.

You do have the lakes and some things green.

I will retire back there.

You can always visit the big city and leave it when you want.

To make it as much like Houston as possible, get on Bryant Throughway for the rush minutes of 7:37 to 7:56. And then again at 5:05 to 5:20.

To make it NOT like Houston,drive down Susan Peak Road and look at the actual Milky Way at night.

The check out lines at Wal-Mart are the same everywhere.

San Angelo folks have actually tried to tell everyone it is a terrible place to live and we have no water to share with anyone so it doesn't become a Houston type city.

Actually if they would have more water sources, the population would be much higher because more businesses would have located there.

You can propably buy home for less money than the same size/quality than in Houston.

Good Luck

Thanks for the input everyone. My reference to the big city atmosphere is having access to a lot of variety (museums, ball parks, etc) as well as night life. I hear a lot of people say West TX is good for raising a family and all, but what does it have for a young single male just getting started. As for the job, it's a contract position working with Brooks AFB.

Pros: Small town but not to small, good mexican food, 3 good sized bodies of water, only <4 hours to everything else in the state worth a flip, not houston. housing market has existed in a bubble and not jacked prices up, slower traffic, nice mild falls, winters, and springs

Cons: 3 hours from everything, SA drivers are bad, shopping's not great, kinda dry at some points

i want out now, but i'd move back later in life in a heart beat.


as a young single male, there are plenty of beautiful girls in town to meet also. You could meet them at church or at a bar. the same girls probably.

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You could meet them at church or at a bar. the same girls probably.

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as a young single male, there are plenty of beautiful girls in town to meet also. You could meet them at church or at a bar. the same girls probably.

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Bulls***. I lived in San Angelo and it had easily the ugliest girls I have ever met. Look at a map: it's 200 miles out in the middle of nowhere. Ask yourself, will pretty, desirable girls want to live in San Angelo? Of course not. There's no opportunities for them there. The ones that grew up around there (assuming there are any) will move away for school and never go back.

You've either never been to San Angelo or your standards aren't very high if you think you are going to find a desirable girl at one of the bars there. The bars there are pretty rough. It's a blue-collar town out in no where, what do you expect? Hell, San Angelo in itself is a drug town.

San Angelo is probably the absolute worst town you can live in in Texas as a young, single male. More than likely you will REGRET moving there. I lived in both Houston and San Angelo. I HATE, HATE, HATE Houston but I can tolerate visiting it on a trip. San Angelo, on the other hand, was the worst experience in my life and I have no desire to ever go back there.

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so it doesn't become a Houston type city.

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Considering that it's 200 miles out in the middle of no where, San Angelo will never be a Houston type of city.