Just saw this article today, although it's from November.

Couple moves from Portland, Oregon to Houston, immediately regrets it, and goes back to Portland.

https://www.businessinsider.com/moved-houston-regretted-it-went-back-portland-2023-11

There were a few nuggets that stood out to me that demonstrate how the author poorly planned her transition to Houston and blames Houston for her failures.

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I stood out for wearing pants and Nikes to the office instead of flowery dresses like my coworkers did; other women had beautiful, pageant-worthy waves, while I had an angled bob with an undercut.

I admired the style of the women around me, but I missed the casual, comfortable, and outdoorsy clothes people wear more often on the West Coast.

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I couldn't afford to ski the mountains in Oregon, but I could at least visit them and snowshoe. There aren't any mountains like that in Texas.

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No ***** She didn't know that until she moved here?

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My daily Houston commute, which could take anywhere from one to three hours depending on my schedule, exhausted me. I thought I was choosing a central location for our apartment, but the scale of Houston was greater than I expected.

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She moved to Spring, which is hardly a central location, and anyone who has the ability to search for Houston, Texas on Google Maps could have told her that.

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But when I got to Spring, I found that adjacent to my 300-unit apartment complex was a farmhouse property with several smelly horses, and a FedEx warehouse complete with 18-wheeler traffic.

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Again, Google Maps.

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I spent my higher salary on a second car, gas, tolls, more expensive car insurance, work lunches, happy hours, and networking.

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Her poor choices aren't Houston's fault.

Perhaps it's just the planning nature of my personality, but I would never relocate halfway across the country without knowing exactly what I was getting myself into.

White liberals are the absolute worst.

good, hopefully they are highly influential and convince others to not move to Texas.

Laugh/cry. Hope she has a microphone out at the main square in downtown Portland and cries out how much Houston sucks to her counterparts.

She should have to take some california libs with her.

Milwaukees Best Light said:

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She should have to take some california libs with her.

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Texas liberals are raging conservatives by California liberal standards.

"In summer 2018, I was busy girlbossing hard"

It was nice of her to start the article with a sentence so obnoxious that I had no desire to finish.

Thanks for the highlights RTT!

And I thought this was going to be another RtT's "taking my balls and going home" threads.

"I can't believe this place I did absolutely no research on didn't meet my expectations!"

"I didn't like that I couldn't dress like a slob at work"

Good riddance.

I can't believe in a conservative state that women are feminine and don't all look like Karens

Or, perhaps.....hear me out...she's a dumbass.

CDUB98 said:

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Or, perhaps.....hear me out...she's a dumbass.

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I thought it was already established that she was a Portland liberal.

She sounds exhausting. And I bet she smells.

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Jackal99 said:

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She sounds exhausting. And I bet she smells.

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And doesn't shave

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And she thinks the horses are the smell.....

She didn't like that people who weren't white actually existed and not just a pretend thing to care about like in Portland.

Traffic sucks but there's nowhere in or around Houston where it would take 3 hours to drive from Spring.

NoahAg said:

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Traffic sucks but there's nowhere in or around Houston where it would take 3 hours to drive from Spring.

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I found her LinkedIn and the offices she was commuting to are in Jersey Village. I don't see Spring to JV taking an hour.

She's a woman, so double whatever time it should take, add a few minutes for crap, and that's probably what you wind up with.

Maybe she took the beltway the wrong way?

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She didn't like that people who weren't white actually existed and not just a pretend thing to care about like in Portland.

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If Portland, OR is anything like Portland, ME (haven't been to OR in several years), there are more Black Lives Matter signs than actual black people.

Jackal99 said:

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She sounds exhausting. And I bet she smells.

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probably what actually happened is that her rather *****ly Portland demeanor was absolute poison to what is likely a well-presented but highly collegial Texas working environment. Probably turned out that after a few months it was apparent she was the needy/whiny/constant complaining workplace harpy and people simply stopped wanting to deal with her so they pushed her out.

Diggity said:

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"In summer 2018, I was busy girlbossing hard"

It was nice of her to start the article with a sentence so obnoxious that I had no desire to finish.

Thanks for the highlights RTT!

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Such a badass FIERCE girlboss, but can't afford to snow ski and is forced to just walk around in snowshoes?

The only thing I smell is dingbat.

just imagine being her husband and knowing that's what he gets to f*** the rest of his miserable life

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just imagine being her husband and knowing that's what he gets to f*** the rest of his miserable life

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You think she lets the patriarchy touch her? Nah, she fires up ol' George on the regular while he weeps in the fetal position next to her.

"All I need is a cool buzz, some tasty waves, and I'm fine."

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She also wrote another article about it including mentioning our "outdated" voting process:
https://www.businessinsider.com/moved-texas-oregon-left-red-state-blue-politics-2024-2

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The classic complaint of waiting all day to vote. Don't know where these people go, but I've never had to wait more than 5 minutes, even on Election Day.

Also, you are allowed to bring in a cheat sheet for your selections, so she made that up.

Hopefully she keeps writing these articles and it discourages the left coast nuts from moving here.

Hah, my main thing was, you. LITERALLY have weeks to early vote, on everything, anywhere in Harris County.