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Does anybody else live in the middle of nowhere? (self.texas)

submitted ago by Kossa2013

I know this is a somewhat silly question to ask people from Texas, but still...there are no subreddits for any towns near me, and I just want validation that redditors exist out here. I'm in Fayette County (kind of halfway between Austin and Houston) Even if you don't live near me, feel free to post your general area and maybe you can find redditors in your area too. :)

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[–]Maelenthar 11 points12 points ago

I'm in Woodson, Throckmorton County, town of 300. I think that qualifies as middle of nowhere.

[–]aggieastronaut 1 point2 points ago

Oh, I've been storm chasing through your town before. Does that count?

[–]FuzzyCats 1 point2 points ago

Oh how awesome. When I was in 4th grade I wanted nothing more than to be a storm chaser.

[–]aggieastronaut 4 points5 points ago

My preschool was hit by a tornado while I was in it. I told my mom when I got home that I wanted to be a meteorologist some day.

I now hold a B.S. in meteorology from A&M and working on my PhD!

[–]hindesky 8 points9 points ago

Used to live in Junction, I almost died of boredom and moved to the big city.

[–]Positively_Pantless 1 point2 points ago

My cousin's fiance wants their wedding to be at the river there in Junction this summer. He's seriously set on it and my entire family is dreading it.

[–]hindesky 2 points3 points ago

Junction is great for an outdoors weekend, but to live there year round, not so much. Since I'm not into hunting or fishing there is really nothing to do there. The river is great for canoeing or kayaking. I love bicycling on the ranch roads too. I went to high school in Junction, lived there for a total of about 10 yrs.

[–]Positively_Pantless 0 points1 point ago

High school in a small Texas town... I know what a load of fun that is.

[–]Kossa2013[S] 1 point2 points ago

I used to be convinced that Junction was some sort of city. I have no idea why, but I expected it to be somewhere between the size of Brenham and Austin. Then I drove through there on the way to West Texas; it was tiny. >.<

[–]hindesky 1 point2 points ago

Junction has about 2500 citizen and about 5000 in Kimble County. My high school graduating class had 39 of us.

[–]Kossa2013[S] 1 point2 points ago

Yeah, I have no idea how I thought it was a city >.< but I was convinced of it my entire life until I actually went there. I have you barely beaten; my high school class as of right now has 28 people. :)

[–]bls1977tx 5 points6 points ago

I used to live in Fayette County (La Grange) until I moved to Abilene in the mid 90's.

[–]BattleHall 5 points6 points ago

Don't know if he's on Reddit, but a friend of mine's girlfriend's dad lives on a mountain top in West Texas out near Ft. Davis. He's seriously in the middle of nowhere, yet has super high-speed internet, because the mountaintop he lives on is also the site for a relay tower for the McDonald Observatory (he helps maintain the equipment).

[–]Kossa2013[S] 0 points1 point ago

I've been there! I used to go to camp in Fort Davis, and I went halfway up the mountain with the McDonald Observatory before my fear of heights stopped me. >,<

[–]listen_to_vinyl 3 points4 points ago

I'm in deep East Texas. It is a depressing place.

[–]trudat 2 points3 points ago

My condolences.

[–]emforever 2 points3 points ago

Indeed it is...

[–]FuzzyCats 1 point2 points ago

Same here! Hello :)

[–]MonsterIt 5 points6 points ago

This post makes me happy to read.

I love Texas and I love people's stories of Texas.

[–]LoneRanger2 3 points4 points ago

I grew up in Mclennan county in a farm town of about 200 folks..we moved to a ruralish suburb (no longer had land I hated it) of waco and then I graduated college and had to move to PA for my job. I only have to be here for another year though so I'll be headin back.

[–]holycrapitsjeff 2 points3 points ago

Lorena here man, yay rural McLennan county!

[–]LoneRanger2 0 points1 point ago

Hell yeah! Golinda myself.

[–]ItWasDelicious 0 points1 point ago

Knew of a handful of people from Golinda. They didn't have their own school district and were going to school in Robinson (where I hail from).

[–]LoneRanger2 0 points1 point ago

Yeah, I went to Lorena elementary and then my parents wanted me to go to midway so that's why we moved. Hated that school

[–]SorryDudeItwasMe 1 point2 points ago

Oil and gas work?

[–]LoneRanger2 1 point2 points ago

Negative, I'm a broadcast engineer I work NFL, WWE, NCAA, etc live events

[–]SorryDudeItwasMe 0 points1 point ago

Nice. I lived up in NW PA doing land work...they weren't too fond of Texans..

[–]LoneRanger2 0 points1 point ago

Yeah that's the number one response I get when I tell folks where I'm from. Close second to "the fuck are you doing up here?"

[–]SorryDudeItwasMe 1 point2 points ago

Yeah it was crazy going up there at first. I had never been to the Northeast and I swear I couldn't stop staring at people bc of how "different" they looked to me... Kind of hard to explain.

[–]makegoboom 0 points1 point ago

Axtell! womp womp (Got out as fast as I could.)

[–]GwendolynShea 3 points4 points ago

I live in Harlingen, down near Brownsville and McAllen. It's not really the middle of nowhere, a fairly large city, but so many people here are so computer illiterate that I feel like I'm in the middle of nowhere =(

[–]REdd06 1 point2 points ago

YOU! SPEAK! THE! TRUTH!

To make things worse, you're lucky if you get an area with cable/dsl/wireless connectivity. There's still massive "holes" down here with nothing that gets through. (Head West to Rio Grande City. It's the damn Mutara Nebula of Texas)

[–]GwendolynShea 1 point2 points ago

Oh, definitely. My brother lives out in Bayview and he can't even get cell phone reception half the time.

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[–]GwendolynShea 1 point2 points ago

Definitely will do! They're some of the nicest kids down here! Wait, no, they ARE the nicest kids down here!

[–][deleted] 5 points6 points ago

Yeah. I'm out here in Lubbock

[–]Sochbat 1 point2 points ago

Abilenian here. Hypocritical Conservatives abound!

[–]wildkilliams 0 points1 point ago

A town of 200,000 is not in the middle of nowhere

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point ago

Have you been an hour outside of Lubbock? How about 2 hours? 2 Hours is about when you actually find something

[–]wildkilliams 0 points1 point ago

Amarillo is 2 hours away, which is another town of 200,000 people. And you did not say you lived 2 hours away from lubbock, you said you were in Lubbock. Lubbock is not the middle of nowhere.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point ago

You're thinking of a small town. I'm thinking of in the middle of nowhere. Location. "there are no subreddits for any towns near me" from the OP.

Lubbock is surrounded by NOTHING

[–]MaAWo 2 points3 points ago

Does Orange count?

[–]glassuser 0 points1 point ago

Only if you're talking about culture. :)

[–]MaAWo 1 point2 points ago

So true, even though the Stark Museum of Art is supposed to be great. Hopefully my fiancé and I will be moving this summer to an area in TX that offers more (if we can find teaching jobs elsewhere)

[–]bmk2k 0 points1 point ago

hey, ive been to the hospital there because your city breeds drunk drivers

[–]MaAWo 0 points1 point ago

Not my city, I just live here. I actually moved here from out of state.

[–]WillATX247Stylin 0 points1 point ago

How unfortunate. Born and raised there.

[–]evoflux 2 points3 points ago

Every speeding ticket I've received in the last 10 years has been in Fayette County either on 290, 71, or somewhere in between. You must be a ninja at avoiding the state troopers.

[–]Kossa2013[S] 1 point2 points ago

I've been driving around the county illegally since the age of twelve, and I've never once been pulled over by a cop...I actually thought we had pretty laid back cops...apparently not.

[–]glassuser 2 points3 points ago

I wish.

[–]PhantomGenocide 0 points1 point ago

Kerrville here. This place sucks.

[–]Kossa2013[S] 0 points1 point ago

I work at a camp that's right by Kerrville (in Center Point)! I love it there during the summer, but I can completely understand not wanting to live there year-round. -.-

[–]raun 3 points4 points ago

I live in Chicago, but will be moving back to Texas in two months. Does that count?

[–]AggieDem 0 points1 point ago

Considering Chicago is America's Second City, imma gonna say no, unless there is another Chicago I'm unaware of.

[–]freondlas 0 points1 point ago

I'm moving back to Texas in three months! We're currently in Kalamazoo.

[–]wildkilliams 0 points1 point ago

I just moved here from Chicago. Relevance!

[–]lgodsey 0 points1 point ago

Matagorda county here. Moved here from Austin area to care for ailing family members. And, no offense, seeing the kind of shitty and backward the people who live here, I'm in no hurry to meet someone from this area.

[–]drinkalcohol 1 point2 points ago

Is that by Chapel Hill? I live in Austin, but I have family in Houston and I drive back and forth a couple times a year.

[–]Kossa2013[S] 0 points1 point ago

Nah, when I said between Houston and Austin, I meant it very loosely. I'm about an hour south of Chapel Hill. I'm about equidistant from Austin, Houston, Victoria, and San Antonio to be a bit more exact.

[–]MonsterIt 0 points1 point ago

Thats the middle!

[–]Kossa2013[S] 0 points1 point ago

I know, I made it unclear. I meant I wasn't in the middle of Houston and Austin, 'cause I live too far South to be directly between them. If you throw in San Antonio and Victoria, though, then I'm directly in the middle of those four. :)

[–]FuzzyCats 1 point2 points ago

Yep. I'm about 2 hours north of Houston. I spent 21 years living 15 minutes outside the city limits in the absolute middle of nowhere, now I live in town. Though, that isn't much. Everything closes by 9 or 10 pm and there's nothing to do.

[–]treat9966 0 points1 point ago

Jasper County :(

[–]xardra 0 points1 point ago

I am in elmendorf. Just southeast of San Antonio. Still in bexar. It stinks. Luckily we get VIA out here four times a day.

[–]bmk2k 0 points1 point ago

everything about bexar county stinks...

[–]egggoboom 0 points1 point ago

I disagree. Try to get good enchiladas in, say, BFE Missouri.

[–]AggieDem 0 points1 point ago

https://www.tsl.state.tx.us/ref/abouttx/popcity32010.html

There ya go. Scroll to the bottom.

Cities of note: Los Veteranos I, Los Veteranos II, Bigfoot, and Airport Road Addition.

[–]Discolemonade89 0 points1 point ago

I used to live in Cumby, which was pretty out there, and had a population of about 700 people.

[–]zaboomafoo357 0 points1 point ago

I lived in Brookshire before I moved to Corpus, and Katy before Brookshire. Its a culture shock going from suburbia to a more rural setting. But I prefer the more rural setting.

[–]Kossa2013[S] 0 points1 point ago

I love Brookshire, just for that pizza place! xD

[–]michaelherrmann 1 point2 points ago

Brenham here. We had a billboard advertised a confederate club, and someone hung a noose over it in protest and it made more people join.

[–]ComicOzzy 0 points1 point ago

facepalm

[–]freondlas 0 points1 point ago

I went to school in Smithville (Bastrop Co.) but lived near Pin Oak/Serbin/Paige. And near is really just an approximation.

[–]Knubinator 1 point2 points ago

Used to live in BFE Hill Co, but just moved last week to Waco. It's so nice to be able to drive 5 minutes to get to an HEB, instead of almost an hour.

[–]MonadMan 0 points1 point ago

Do you guys have high speed internet in the middle of nowhere?

[–]Kossa2013[S] 0 points1 point ago

Yes, indeed. :D We had dial-up for the longest time, but our phone people finalllllly got high-speed.

[–]trconk 0 points1 point ago

Just moved to Uvalde from San Antonio. I think Uvalde qualifies as the middle of nowhere and the place to go when Texas needs an enema.

[–]digger_ex_pat 0 points1 point ago

I grew up right about at the center of this map

[–]Dovekeeper 0 points1 point ago

Grew up in Yancey, Tx (Medina County). Now in New York City.

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