We went to San Antonio over Memorial Day weekend. I have never, ever seen Memorial Day traffic like it. I-10 was backed up for 60 miles coming in to Houston. From Columbus in. The usual San Antonio attractions were mobbed. A line of cars was backed up for over a mile on I-10 trying to get to Buc-ees in Luling. Shiny new RVs and pickups towing expensive boats were everywhere.I know and you know there's a bad recession going on. It seems like most everyone else failed to get the message. So where's the dough coming from? I don't get it.
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Reading news from outside of Texas will give you the impression that conditions are worse than they really are where you live...in Texas.
Low taxes, low regulation, a legislature that meets every other year. That's the ticket to milder recessions and richer good times.
I still have to wait 45 minutes to get into restaraunts on the weekends in Houston. Imagine how long the wait would be if there weren't a recession.
Maybe it is a supply vs demand imbalance too. Lot's of people elsewhere are voting with their feet, and they choose Texas. Last time I checked, Chuy's restaurant had not expanded. The interstate hadn't widened suddenly, but the housing stock has increased recently, and let's note carefully that the prices haven't dropped as much here as elsewhere. People live in that housing I guess!
Heck the Bucees in Luling is better than Sea World San Antonio....what a zoo.
Plus 2 on the Bucee's. What an operation. Has the old Stuckeys beat by a mile. Hey Lou, maybe it's that people tend to do driving vacations rather than fly when money's tight.
The 18% of the US work force who are employed (as aopposed to actually working) for public agencies are safely unfireable, highly paid, and still partying like it's 1996. And why wouldn't they?
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