Also, there are like 6 major cities in Texas, 34 with populations over 100,000. The Texas Triangle alone has over 21 million people. My neighbourhood is one of the safest in all of North America…and crazy to believe…one if the most diverse as well. Funny how you set standards for behaviour, don’t “self-segregate” and everyone gets along. You get looked at funny if you don’t hold the door open and let women go first. Everyone also laughs at themselves and each other, joking about stereotypes of their country/culture of origin.
Yes, the sketch border and downtown cores are what you’d expect, so you simply and easily avoid them.
My entire family loves it here and the longer we are away from the insanity that was Vancouver and Canada, the more it’s like waking up from a bad dream. Seemed so normal at the time, then you wake up and realize none of it made any sense.