I don't live in Texas, but I considered moving there in the "Y2K" scare period in early 1999. Now I'm in "Collapsifornia", where hardened criminals are being released from jail, and the water and sewer bill alone is $100 a month. How many here know that (most of) Texas has its own power grid? A cyberattack could knock out power over large sections of the USA, and Texas would likely remain unaffected. Texas was complimented today on CNBC for relatively good management of state finances -- despite the absence of a state income tax. And, Texas is in a much better position to secede from the United States (and its unrepayable debt), because of its history. Texas still has significant oil and gas reserves, and agriculture is possible without artificial irrigation. The primary natural disaster risk, away from low-lying areas and the coast, is tornadoes; which at least strike relatively small areas at any one time.

If this recession deepens into a widespread depression, with bank "holidays" or hyperinflation or the like; and civil chaos breaks out in the hardest-hit areas of the country (which is already happening in Greece), are there counter-arguments to the belief that Texas would be a better place than most other states in the USA to "Ride The Storm Out"?

"A prudent man sees danger and hides himself, but the simple pass on and suffer for it." Proverbs 22:3, 27:12