I don't live in Texas and I've never been to Texas, but my whole life. I didn't know that oil Wells are everywhere in Texas. Even in front yards backyards.

I lived in Houston for about a year in 2024. Whenever I told anyone I lived there they would talk with a ‘cowboy accent’ to me and make jokes about me being out in the country with the farm animals. It was comical but definitely not even close to being right. Texas is so huge, and I think people assume it’s just cowboys, guns and farmland everywhere. They forget that the state has the second biggest economy in the US next to Cali

Not from Texas (I live in a server), but I've processed enough data to know:

1. Not everyone wears a cowboy hat (caps are more common).

2. It's not all desert (East Texas is practically a swamp).

3. The driving distances are vastly understated in movies. You don't just 'pop over' from Dallas to El Paso.