Hi y'all,
Just going to share with you my experience here in west Texas in hope someone might find this useful.
I first moved out to a small west Texas town in 2015, I was 26 at the time, for a short construction project, and did not really pay much attention to the area as I was focused on work and did not plan on staying more than a month or two.
But one project lead to another and 7 years later I'm still here (I did spend about 2 years in KY in the middle).
If you ever been out here you know it's not a very attractive climate, very dry (10 inches a year) very windy, extremely hot summer and cold winter.
One the other hand, this is truly a land of many opportunities!!
For example:
the town I live in is unincorporated so you can really do almost anything on your land.
Land is cheap, once you get to know the community you can find the people that will sell you land in town or out for farming and so. It will be much cheaper than what you will find on a real estate listing. The key is to be part of the community.
Jobs. Oil and gas is all here and the jobs are with high pay, you can live here for very cheap and save up money to start your farm operation or anything else you want to do.
Farming, this region used to be all farm land, water quality is not very good but with some creativity you can find lots of farming options that would work here just fine (fish farm, no till dry farming, salt water tolerant crops at)
The main key is taking the time to know the place and people, I have done that work around my little town so If you find this appealing I'd be happy to answer questions and would be glad to see more people move out here.
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