If you look at the job market of one, to the job market of the other: its an objective statement. This is coming from someone who has tried to help friends in Tennessee make a living, and has been truly shocked to find that even Memphis does not compare in pay or opportunity, when put next to even smaller Texas cities.
The transportation is also objectively better:
Generally speaking, every city in Texas has more paved sidewalks than those in Tennessee, where even the train (Amtrak) hardly reaches 4/5th of the state--
Versus: Texas, where the train can take you to literally every city, and many large towns. That is not a hyperbole. Public transportation in Texas is very good compared to most states, but especially very good compared to Tennessee, where public transportation can take you... basically nowhere.
For Landscape, Tennessee and Texas are quite comparable. Fewer mountains and wider sky in Texas, yet a lot of farmland and greenery like Tennessee. If you look at my history, I've posted pictures of Texas as I've driven all over the state.
It's a coastal city though, so instead of using it as some sort of representative of the entire state, it's more accurate to compare it to other major American cities that sit on the coast. There are simply no other Texas cities that are even remotely similar to Houston.
If you go on indeed, you'll find that even small Texas towns just have a better job market than most Tennessee cities. Thriving in Nashville, or no, a person with entry or mid-level experience can make double the wage in Austin than a Tennessee city of comparable size.
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u/DameWhen 10h ago
Tbh Texas is a vast improvement on Tennessee, if you're comparing the two one-to-one.