Considering relocating to Texas

Nirvana said
Texas is hot as hell,and humid. Everything tries to bite you or kill you. As someone who isn’t from TX, but lived there for several years in the most liberal city(Austin) I am stunned to hear you say you want to move to TX to escape the homogeny of CO. TX is very white, and white or not they all wear cowboy hats and listen to the same music. Lots of white boys who use the N word openly. I’ve heard plenty of discussions about Muslims but never anything polite or positive. Next to Alabama or West Virginia I don’t think you could make a worse pick than Texas if your true desires are a multi-cultural and accepting society. I lived in Austin, Round Rock and Cedar Creek for reference, and a total of 5 years in TX. My wife is a 9th Generation Texan, and she won’t go back.

It didn't make sense to me either at first but I've seen the ICNA headquarters in Dallas and ate halal pepperoni pizza in Houston (halal anything doesn't really exist in CO). According to this Muslim Population by State 2022 Texas has the second-largest population of Muslims after California at almost 30 million, Colorado has 6 million (which are mostly East African immigrants and refugees in the greater Denver area). There are 62 mosques in Dallas alone. Even though Austin is the most liberal city it's kind of ironically still majority white by race. Makes me think of the city of Boulder, CO, everyone is obnoxiously up-their-own-@$$ liberal but the University of Colorado campus there is statistically one of the least-diverse schools in the country in terms of races and ethnicities.

Spending the last 3 years or so on a Muslim dating/matrimonial app I found that a significant number (at least 20%) of the profiles were in Texas. By comparison I'd see 2-3 profiles in Colorado per week or less which is like 2%.

Saying all that, who knows maybe I'd still have a terrible experience and not find what I'm looking for. I have to try something different though because 17 years in Colorado hasn't gotten it. I've visited states in all regions of the U.S. and for me personally my experiences in Texas so far were pretty positive. Yeah it's hot and humid but by comparison I've visited the UAE several times to see family and lived in Dubai for a year, from about April to October you can't spend more than 5-10 minutes outside because it's consistently over 110 degrees and 80% humidity. It sucks but in contrast sure beats 3-week periods of dark heavy cloud cover and chilling temps with piles of brown salty road slush like you get in the midwest and northeast (I grew up in Pennsylvania). Colorado climate overall is pretty ideal but I can't have it all. It does get into occasional below-zero temps in Jan-Feb-Mar here though which I won't miss.