Other Cities in Texas: Difference between revisions

 

== Amarillo ==

[[Small Reference Pools|The second-largest city in the Texas Panhandle, and the largest city between Oklahoma City and Albuquerque]]. The center of Texas' massive beef industry, and home to the largest reserve of helium in the world, wrestler Terry Funk, and actress [[The Addams Family|Carolyn Jones]].

 

== Austin ==

The capital of Texas. Home of the University of Texas (or Texas University to the Aggies), which is the state's largest in terms of enrollment, as well as a traditional powerhouse in all of the Big Three sports (American football, basketball, baseball). Austin is famous for being a notorious pocket of liberalism and counterculture in what is otherwise one of the most conservative states in the country (or as [[Patton Oswalt]] put it, "a bubble of sanity") -- it's well known for all kinds of colorful characters, some of whom will run for mayor (look up the name Leslie Cochran if you're feeling brave). Organic supermarket chain Whole Foods Market is based here, as are a host of high-tech companies, making it something of Texas's Silicon Valley - Austin and the surrounding area are sometimes referred to as "Silicon Hills". A related claim to fame is Austin's incredible live music scene, making it known as the "live music capital of the world". There are a number of famous music festivals that take place there, including South by Southwest (or simply SXSW) and the Austin City Limits festival hosted by the [[PBS]] television series, and its home to many underground rock musicians. These factors combine to give Austin a level of offbeat quirkiness not commonly associated with Texas.

 

== El Paso ==

Texas's answer to [[Demoted to Extra|Sacchin]]—it rarely gets mentioned in fiction, probably due in part to its isolation (at least from anything American; the closest major non-Mexican city is Albuquerque). It's a very large city that's right across the border from the even bigger [[Wretched Hive|Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico]], known to anybody who reads/watches the news as one of ''the'' most violent cities on earth due to all those drug cartels fighting for control of cross-border smuggling channels. For what it's worth, crime rates in El Paso itself do not seem to be too far above the norm for an American city its size. In addition to its geographical isolation, it also has a noticeable lack of suburbs (Houston and Dallas/Fort Worth have a ton of suburbs, and Austin is very close to San Antonio). [[Eddie Guerrero]]'s hometown.