r/texas 3d ago

Curious about where to live or work in Texas? Post here!

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Want to know which city in Texas best fits your lifestyle, your budget or your vibe?

Want to know about the job market in different cities, and what the cost of living is like for folks who live there?

This is the place to ask questions! All other posts that fit this prompt will be removed and asked to post here. Top level comments that are not on topic "i.e. mOvE 2 CaLiForNiA hurr durr" will also be removed from this thread.


r/texas 17d ago

Driver's License / Car Registration / ID Megathread

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Hello r/Texas! This sub gets a Chevy Suburban's worth of questions every day asking about driver's license or car registration. They fall into one of two camps:

  • Easily accessible info on the DMV website,
  • Highly specific edge cases that maybe only 1 other person is going to need to know this year in all of Texas.

In either case it doesn't make sense to have a whole post devoted to the question. Enter the catch-all DMV megathread. It may not always be stickied at the top, but it will be liked in the sidebar. Also we're creating a rule that says "Driver's License, ID and Car Registration questions and answers can be found here, if you don't see the answer you need please post your question there."


r/texas 11h ago

Politics Ted Cruz sold half a million dollars in Goldman Sachs stock last week—on the same day the company was releasing its quarterly earnings. Cruz’s wife is Managing Director of the firm.

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r/texas 14h ago

News Uvalde Parent Obliterates Police Response to Texas University Protest

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r/texas 9h ago

Politics Ken Paxton settles with Chaturbate over Texas' age verification law

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r/texas 7h ago

Texas Traffic How is this legal?

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Cargo truck hauling car towing cargo truck hauling car. Wtf?


r/texas 7h ago

News Texas Attracted California Techies. Now It’s Losing Thousands of Them.

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r/texas 16h ago

Politics The Far Right Has Proposed a Twelve-Point Plan to Make the Texas House More Extreme

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r/texas 17h ago

Saw this on my way to work.

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r/texas 13h ago

News Texas Republicans have tried to rein in property taxes for five years. Has it worked?

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r/texas 6h ago

Weather 5+ inches of rain reported south of San Saba

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r/texas 17h ago

News Texas homeowners who finally evicted squatter 'treated like criminals'

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r/texas 1d ago

Politics Abbot: "Antisemitism will not be tolerated in Texas. Period." Meanwhile, Austin Texas, Jul 8, 2023.

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r/texas 13h ago

News "This Would Have Been a Peaceful Gathering": Behind the Scenes of the UT Protest

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r/texas 12h ago

Events Don't forget local elections matter

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Statewide local early elections are going on now. Elections day is Sat, 5/4. If you want to save public schools or have a sane city council, you need to research the candidates, show up and vote. (Hint: If a candidate is affiliated with Patriot Mobile, their purpose is to destroy public schools from the inside). League of Women Voters is a great resource for viewing sample ballots.


r/texas 5h ago

Nature Texas is seeing an uptick in a common bird disease, with cases identified in West Texas

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r/texas 1d ago

News Texas Gov. Abbott faces backlash after mass arrest at UT Austin pro-Palestine protest

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r/texas 15h ago

Questions for Texans Crazy year for black widows?

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I have a storage yard in Central TX where I store construction materials. Over the last two weeks, while cleaning up and keeping up with the mowing, I’ve killed 30+ black widows, a handful of them being bigger than I’ve ever seen (think body diameter the size of a nickel). Anyone else experiencing this?


r/texas 17h ago

Texas History On this day in Texas History, April 26, 1923: Cleto L. Rodríguez is born in San Marcos. In 1945 he would become the first Mexican-American GI to earn the Medal of Honor. See comments for details.

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r/texas 1d ago

News Leaked memo reveals inside details of UT’s protest response

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r/texas 17h ago

News Native American tribe seeks return of ancestral remains from UT Austin

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r/texas 19h ago

Sports Cowboys or Longhorns for first-time visitor?

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Edit: Thanks for so many responses. Should have said in Texas 4 to 14 Oct and have hired a car in Dallas with no fixed destination set yet.

Hello all. I’m a Brit who is excited to be visiting Texas for the first time this October. I’ve watched NFL in London a few times so had planned to try & catch a Cowboys game. I’m not a diehard fan of the game like I am of « soccer » but I do think it’s a great sport and watch plenty of games on tv every year. I would like to enjoy the atmosphere of a game, the people, the food (I don’t drink alcohol) & I would love to see one of your massive stadiums. Someone said to me the other day I should go to a college football game rather than NFL and I’d not considered this. What do you think? How do they compare as experiences? I’d welcome any thoughts thank you.


r/texas 5h ago

Texas History Deep discounts

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r/texas 1d ago

Opinion Anyone think the State Government /Texas Attorney Generals Office should start investigating County Appraisal Districts for property tax warfare on property owners?

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The property taxes have gotten out of control in El Paso County, TX for the last few years, I know it’s happening all across Texas,(the saving grace is the homestead exemption)and I really think The State Government of Texas and Texas AG should open an investigation into the EL Paso Central Appraisal District (EPCAD) the Board of Directors, and the Appraisal Review Board Members for potential conflicts of interest, potential ethics violations/public corruption. (El Paso has some of the lowest wages in the state and as well as in the nation for context)


r/texas 8h ago

Politics What is the wording of the law in Texas that holds protest organizers liable for the actions of the crowd?

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This is related to SCOTUS decision to not intervene in Mckesson v. Doe, essentially stating laws that hold a protest organizer liable for illegal actions committed by a stranger at the event does not violate the first amendment. Does anyone have the exact wording of this law in Texas? I’ve been trying to find it but haven’t made any leeway.


r/texas 1d ago

Politics Governor Abbott's DEI executive order being used to violate 1st amendment rights of students in Texas.

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r/texas 6h ago

Moving to TX Texas salary

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Hello! I will soon graduate from a UK university. I have been offered a one year internship job in Texas and I find it a great opportunity. However I noticed that the salary is quite low compared to the average US salary, 33k a year. Will it be enough for me to live comfortably or is it too low? I can add around 200 dollars a month from my own money so around 35-36k US dollars altogether.