This article reads like the goofy cliches New Yorkers spout after spending their first week in Los Angeles.<p>So here&#x27;s mine:<p>Texas is enormous and odd and has no state tax and yet you can&#x27;t drive 20 miles without seeing another massive multi-billion dollar highway construction project that seems about 100 feet taller than it needs to be.<p>Dallas is not Austin is not Houston.<p>Austin in the context of Texas pretty much makes no sense. Might as well be its own state within a state. One that needs really, really strict DUI laws -- not dopey politicians picking fights with Uber. Day drunk, no tech to be seen, and basically a cultural vacuum given what it should be given its massive population and history.<p>Dallas makes little sense either. Amazing travel hub. $59 flights to&#x2F;from anywhere. Want a $19 rental car? They got &#x27;em. And they&#x27;ll email you the night before to see if you want to upgrade to a minivan for $23. Why aren&#x27;t other hub cities like this? Dunno. I must underestimate the scale. Easy to do there.<p>But Texas is on the path to becoming unmanageable just as California did before it. Whether this comes from growth, or growth compounded by cultural &quot;diversity&quot; tearing its internals apart remains to be seen. I&#x27;m not optimistic. Too big, too broken, and too growing. People are opinionated and divisive. And a little bit nasty. And armed. When you hear about &quot;doing what&#x27;s right for America&quot; and &quot;compromise&quot; -- Texas is the exact place that would benefit the most from it. Yet Texans don&#x27;t seem interested in starting the conversation.<p>But this article barely scratches the surface of what I saw. Texas is a surprising, complex beast. And I only spent about four days there.<p>Also, consider investing all your retirement savings in Torchy&#x27;s Tacos.