Topic: Anyone know anything about Big Springs or Midland?
TexasScoundrel's photo
Tue 01/12/10 09:01 AM
My boss just offered me a job out that way and while I don't like the idea of moving out there, it's better than being out of work! He says he'll get me hooked up with a free apartment and an easy job about like what I do now.

Quietman_2009's photo
Tue 01/12/10 09:10 AM
Edited by Quietman_2009 on Tue 01/12/10 09:15 AM
I live about an hour west of Midland

Big Spring I dont know a lot about but its kind hilly and has a bit of water (a big deal out here)

the country is ugly. flat as far as you can see and dotted with hundreds of pumpjacks

but Midland is the white collar half of Midland/Odessa (sort of like Dallas and Fort Worth)

Midland has lots of nice restaurants. an opera and a symphony

Its only a few hours from Midland to Big Bend National Park and that is well worth a few road trips to see

EDIT: also Midland is only a couple hours from San Angelo (big art community there) and a couple hours to Lubbock (concerts, football games etc). and Midland is only a couple hours from Abilene too. Very centrally located for lots of entertainment stuff

if you can just get past the plain uninspiring country side

TexasScoundrel's photo
Tue 01/12/10 09:15 AM
Maybe we'll have a chance to play some music together.

Quietman_2009's photo
Tue 01/12/10 09:17 AM
HEY!

good thought!

Midland does have a pretty good local band/music scene too

San Angelo is better

and Lubbock is even better

but Los Lonely Boys are from here. and Roy Orbison, and Tanya Tucker

TexasScoundrel's photo
Tue 01/12/10 12:42 PM
Are there really no other minglers in West Texas?

TAMARALILANGEL's photo
Tue 01/19/10 01:24 AM
BIG SPRINGS EH WELL ILL TELL YOU WHAT I KNOW ITS HOME TO ONE OF TEXAS' FEDEWRAL PENITINTIARIES AND A HUGE MENTAL HOSPITAL!! GOOD LUCK

Quietman_2009's photo
Tue 01/19/10 07:58 AM

Are there really no other minglers in West Texas?


there's not many

willin is down south in Ft Stockton

Krupa is in Abilene

a couple of guys up north in Lubbock but some reason they always seemed to rub me the wrong way so I didnt interact with em much

Blazeyadedhomi's photo
Wed 02/24/10 01:23 PM
yea and im stuck in b.f.e. menard

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Wed 02/24/10 02:06 PM
Spent soooooooo many summers in Odessa, at my Aunt's and Uncle's ...

... Get to Carlsbad Caverns, not far at all ... due west, New Mexico!!!

MIND BLOWING ... true great wonder on/of Earth! I've been so many times ...

I've traveled the world and it is still one of the most incredible things I've yet to encounter.