A friend asked me to give some reasons to move to Dallas from up north. After thinking awhile,I decided the only 2 reasons would be warmer weather and being close to East Texas.

The more I travel,the more I realize big towns,and big town folks are pretty much the same everywhere.To me a bigger contrast in big city and small town/country life.

I grew up in OKC,about a million or so,and moved to Kilgore texas adout 10,ooo about a dozen years ago.
I live 1 minute from work...I mean really 1 minute.In the spring and summer you cannot see a house from our back yard which is bordered by a creek and full of trees.

The pic above is 2 of my brother-in-laws 4 kids. Patrick and I ran over there this morning to say hi. I left him there for a couple of hours and returned to get some shots of them down at the barn.My kids and their cousins are closer than most siblings,we all live within 5 miles of each other and get along splendidly.

If NOTHING ELSE I drove 30 minutes to work each way in the big city
that's an hour a day
200 hours a year
2000 hours in 10 years.