Anybody here ever been to Amarillo TX?

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I'm thinking about moving there next year. NJ sucks. I work in Freight operations and logistics, so I'm sure I'll be able to find a job in TX.

I've been to Dallas and El Paso but I'm curious about the Amarillo area.

[gblowfish]

Driven thru it a couple time. It's in the middle of freakin' nowhere. Long way to Dallas, Long way to Oklahoma City, long way to Santa Fe. Pretty much literally nowhere. The wind howls in the winter and in the summer don't get upwind of the stockyards.

Cadillac Ranch is the only redeeming feature.

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Originally Posted by Archie F. Swin

Amarillo is a charming west Texas city of over 200,000. The only thing that makes me not want to live there is thats its at least 500 miles from everywhere else.
If you're moving from New Jersey to Amarillo, Texas...you may as well be moving to Mars. I can't imagine two places being more dis-similar.

Thanks for the feedback. I drove a tractor trailer through Texas quite a few times, and the southern border with Mexico looks like Mars. The North was green (alfafa?) and in the east everybody is like Sheriff Justice from Smokey and the bandit.

I'm exploring several options, Amarillo is just one of the them. I like Raleigh NC and Knoxville TN as well.

Originally Posted by Bweb

I have been through Amarillo many times for business. Very flat, no tress and lots of wide open spaces. City is a lot smaller than El Paso. To me, town seems dirty and drab. However, it is the home of the "Big Texan" steak house of the famous 72 oz steak which is free if eaten in one hour.

I don't think I can eat the whole thing, but I'll give it a try.

[Hog's Gone Fishin]

I live within an hour of Amarillo, it has one of the lowest unemployment rates in the nation. My favorite two places to go in Amarillo are Hooters and Gander Mountain. Lots of good places to eat including the Big Texan. They are famous for the 5 pound steak. If you can eat it within 1 hour you get it free! Red River NM is about 5 hours away for a great vacation spot. The Texas panhandle takes time to get used to. Some days the wind will blow 50 mph all day. Right on the edge of Tornado Alley. They usually form in this area and head East in OKlahoma.

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Originally Posted by gblowfish

Driven thru it a couple time. It's in the middle of freakin' nowhere. Long way to Dallas, Long way to Oklahoma City, long way to Santa Fe. Pretty much literally nowhere. The wind howls in the winter and in the summer don't get upwind of the stockyards.

Cadillac Ranch is the only redeeming feature.

The isolation doesn't bother me, but smelly cow manure does. My main concern is employment. I know their are several trucking co. and BNSF is there, too. I want to work for the railroad.

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Originally Posted by Hog Farmer

I live within an hour of Amarillo, it has one of the lowest unemployment rates in the nation. My favorite two places to go in Amarillo are Hooters and Gander Mountain. Lots of good places to eat including the Big Texan. They are famous for the 5 pound steak. If you can eat it within 1 hour you get it free! Red River NM is about 5 hours away for a great vacation spot. The Texas panhandle takes time to get used to. Some days the wind will blow 50 mph all day. Right on the edge of Tornado Alley. They usually form in this area and head East in OKlahoma.

My wife is scared shitless of tornadoes. Come to think of it, so am I. Low unemployment, huh? That I like. My wife is a social worker. Are there enough dysfunctional people in that area to keep her employed with the state or the county?

[gblowfish]

They have minor league baseball and arena league football:
http://www.visitamarillotx.com/navigation/frames.html

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Originally Posted by gblowfish

They have minor league baseball and arena league football:
http://www.visitamarillotx.com/navigation/frames.html

Cool.

Getting back to smelly cow manure, have you ever been to Lancaster PA?

[Hog's Gone Fishin]

Originally Posted by SHTSPRAYER

The isolation doesn't bother me, but smelly cow manure does. My main concern is employment. I know their are several trucking co. and BNSF is there, too. I want to work for the railroad.

You shouldn't have any trouble getting a job with the railroad, they're all ****ing idiots in Amarillo. I bought a 20 ton capacity feed truck in Kentucky and had it railed to Amarillo where I would pick it up and drive it home. It took 2 days from Kentucky to Amarillo. So I called and they said it was there but they didn't know which dock. Finally got a dock number, well nobody knows where that particular dock is at. 3 days later someone gives me directions to the location. So I drive to Amarillo to find the raicar with my truck on it. The railcar is pushed up to the dock backwards so the tongue of the railcar is in the way of letting the car to the dock, a 3 foot gap. so I call them and tell them the situation and it takes them 2 more days to get the car turned around, I go back and theres still about a 2 foot gap between the car and the dock. so they tell me thats my problem. I have to go buy a 1/2 thick sheet of steel to lay accross the gap to drive the truck off. What a bunch of ****ing idiots. You can probably get a job there starting out as the boss.

[Hog's Gone Fishin]

Originally Posted by SHTSPRAYER

My wife is scared shitless of tornadoes. Come to think of it, so am I. Low unemployment, huh? That I like. My wife is a social worker. Are there enough dysfunctional people in that area to keep her employed with the state or the county?

I'm sure your wife would have a job in a heartbeat there. Buy a house with a basement and you'll sleep a lot better although I don't know of a tornado ever hitting Amarillo.

[Bob Dole]

Originally Posted by SHTSPRAYER

... and in the east everybody is like Sheriff Justice from Smokey and the bandit.

Ain't neither. It's just you ain't from 'round here, boy.

[Stinger]

Originally Posted by SHTSPRAYER

The isolation doesn't bother me, but smelly cow manure does.

Wow ... coming from NJ and worried about the smell?????









I keed .... I keed

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Originally Posted by Hog Farmer

You shouldn't have any trouble getting a job with the railroad, they're all ****ing idiots in Amarillo. I bought a 20 ton capacity feed truck in Kentucky and had it railed to Amarillo where I would pick it up and drive it home. It took 2 days from Kentucky to Amarillo. So I called and they said it was there but they didn't know which dock. Finally got a dock number, well nobody knows where that particular dock is at. 3 days later someone gives me directions to the location. So I drive to Amarillo to find the raicar with my truck on it. The railcar is pushed up to the dock backwards so the tongue of the railcar is in the way of letting the car to the dock, a 3 foot gap. so I call them and tell them the situation and it takes them 2 more days to get the car turned around, I go back and theres still about a 2 foot gap between the car and the dock. so they tell me thats my problem. I have to go buy a 1/2 thick sheet of steel to lay accross the gap to drive the truck off. What a bunch of ****ing idiots. You can probably get a job there starting out as the boss.

Great, I'll be like Charleton Heston at the beginning of Planet of the Apes "In a few weeks... we'll be running the place!"

Originally Posted by Bob Dole

Ain't neither. It's just you ain't from 'round here, boy.

Originally Posted by Stinger

Wow ... coming from NJ and worried about the smell?????

There is a raw sewage plant you can smell for miles when driving North or South on I-95 (NJ turnpike) past exit 13 in Elizabeth NJ.

That's where I worked for Yellow Freight. Smelling sh*t all night on the loading dock.

[kepp]

Originally Posted by SHTSPRAYER

The North was green (alfafa?)

I've been through there a couple times and I don't remember any green. Maybe it was just bad timing.

[Archie F. Swin]

West Texas folk are some of the friendliest you'll find. You can take them at face value. There's no pretense. Its often hard to tell the oil field worker from the oil field owner (chances are they both drive trucks). If you like Amarillo, you'll probably want to stay forever...if you dont like it, you'll feel like you're stranded on a desert island.
Amarillo has everything you need...even an amusement park. Just dont plan on the Rolling Stones stopping there for a show. Its just small enough to miss the major acts, I reckon.

[PastorMikH]

Originally Posted by Hog Farmer

I live within an hour of Amarillo, it has one of the lowest unemployment rates in the nation. My favorite two places to go in Amarillo are Hooters and Gander Mountain. Lots of good places to eat including the Big Texan. They are famous for the 5 pound steak. If you can eat it within 1 hour you get it free! Red River NM is about 5 hours away for a great vacation spot. The Texas panhandle takes time to get used to. Some days the wind will blow 50 mph all day. Right on the edge of Tornado Alley. They usually form in this area and head East in OKlahoma.

Where exactly are you at? I'm just about 2 - 2.5 hours from Amarillo to the east.


Been to Amarrillo once, and that was just to the fair grounds on the east side of town so far so I really can't say much about it. I do know that when I lived in Uselysses we had people that preffered going to Amarillo than Wichita for shopping and medical stuff.


Anyone eaten the big steak? The advertise along I-40 here about it. Had a guy in my church try it once and he said it wasn't a very good cut of meat - said the one he got was more like a roast than anything else.