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