Encompassing much of Central Texas, this region is known for its beautiful expanse of rolling slopes and valleys, filled with meandering rivers with striking sunsets as a daily backdrop. As an additional perk, Hill Country has also become known for its vineyards, and is the second largest federally recognized viticultural area in the nation.
Located on a barrier island off the Texas coast, Galveston is a popular tourist destination less than an hour outside of Houston. Though it suffered from a devastating Category 4 hurricane in , today the streets are lined with painstakingly restored Victorian homes, marrying Southern charm with blissful beaches.
The longhorn resulted from the breeding of Spanish and English cattle in the early s, and now Texas is the highest beef producer in the whole country. Dedicated in the spring of , the Tejano Monument was erected on the Capitol grounds in Austin to pay tribute to the Mexican-Americans who founded and built the great state of Texas. After over a decade of planning, this monument finally gave voice to the many contributions made by Tejanos to make Texas the unique place it is. Though Confederate General Robert E.
Lee had already surrendered to Union troops in Appomattox, Virginia, in April of , troops from both sides had one final battle in May. It took place by the Rio Grande River, and although Union and Confederate soldiers knew of the truce in Virginia, Southern soldiers actually won this last battle and took over prisoners of war.
Rio Grande, Texas. What started as a small Austin supermarket in with only 19 employees has turned into an organic empire. With over stores and more than 58, employees, Whole Foods is the 55th largest retailer in the entire nation, and continually ranks high for social responsibility and employee relations. The flagship store remains in Austin and provides over 80, square feet of natural, organic, and local goods and groceries. Lauren Ward is a research analyst at CreditDonkey, a credit card comparison and reviews website.
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Sign Up Now No Thanks. But overall, only five states had a lower individual tax burden than Texas, according to Tax Foundation research. Pick your own big cit y. Contrast this to, for example, Illinois, where if you want to live in a big city you can live in Chicago or you have to move out of state, she says. Austin in particular. Restaurant manager Christopher Hislop, 33, moved in from Los Angeles to Austin, where he met his wife and they now have a nine-month-old boy.
The nightlife is great and there's an emphasis on getting out and about - they maintain trailways and nature. I don't know Texas very well, I grew up in Chicago, but Austin is not Texas because you think of gallon hats and guys on horseback. The rest of Texas is very conservative. So as it's become a big city, a movement has developed to "keep it cool, keep it weird and keep it environmentally friendly".
Because of its good-value housing, Texas has been particularly popular with families, and some of its cities now have an above-average number of children. San Antonio is home to the largest community of gay parents.
In Texas, you can have a reasonable mortgage and pretty good schools, says Grieder. And restaurants are invariably family-friendly. The aggregate is about average. Across the country in general, we don't have schools as good as we would like them to be. In eighth-grade maths, for instance, Texas scored higher than the national average and outscored the three other big states of California, New York and Florida.
On Sunday, an education budget was approved that restored cuts made in Mortgage lending is an obvious exception. But there has been strong opposition to banning texting while driving and a proposed tax on soda.
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