Call Houston “Little Midland” and some residents of Midland, Texas, may smile at the irony. Midland sits in the heart of the Permian Basin, where oil wells, pump jacks, drilling rigs, and service yards dominate the landscape. Houston, by contrast, is more than 300 miles away and is one of the nation’s largest metropolitan areas. […]
The Basin is the Best
Life in Southeast New Mexico and West Texas is better than life anywhere else. That’s true on any scale or metric—social, cultural, socio-cultural, socio-political, geographic, geologic, anthropogenic, or attitudinal. It’s true in terms of liveability, attractiveness, intelligence, neighborliness, common-sensible-ness, relative humidity, sanity, graciousness, godliness, opportunity, rationality, magnificence, unspuriousness, psychometrics, ebullience, health, uncrowdedness, and positivity. Everyone […]