Texas is well known for good government and long term planning.

linkregister 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Civil liberties aside, yes, Texas has good governance.

throwaway2037 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

One thing that many people don't know: Texas has one of the best performing state economies in the last twenty five years -- number 3 in the US. Ref: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/gdp-growth-by-u-s-state-map...

This isn't an accident. Yes, there has been a oil-and-gas boom (fracking, mostly), but it is a great place to do business, so many other non-petro industries have been furiously expanding there in the last 25 years.

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throwaway27448 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Well, they're also terrible at spending state resources despite high taxes (outside of income tax). One of, if not the worst, public education systems in the country. Pretty bad urban planning, too. Decent food and music tho

	▲	rendang 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		By one (seemingly pretty reasonable) measure Texas has the 4th-best state education system! https://www.stevesailer.net/p/naep-test-scores-mississippi-m...

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telotortium 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I mean, compared to a lot of other states Texas is fairly well run for its budget.

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georgeecollins 5 hours ago | parent [-]

This. I think people in California (like me) have trouble seeing the things Texas does well because of partisanship. It's bad for California not to see when another state does a thing better.

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all2 5 hours ago | parent [-]

And the terrible thing is a huge number of folks from California are moving to Texas and brining their failed policies with them.

As the voting bloc shifts left, you can expect more and more insane fiscal policy that will eventually drive Texas into the ground. Like California.

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scarmig 5 hours ago | parent [-]

California's biggest problems are mostly along the lines of "too many people want to live here."

I have plenty of complaints about California governance, many of them conservative coded. But if California is a failed state, it's a failed state that much of the world aspires to be.

	▲	rmunn 33 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I have family in California so I've visited often. It's got beautiful geography, and very pleasant weather most of the time (at least in the areas people have chosen to live: few people voluntarily choose to live in the desert areas). I don't have much personal experience with California's government other than second-hand reports, usually from people leaving the state so you can imagine those reports tend negative. But I suspect that if California's government were better, there would be even more overcrowding problems, i.e. that bad government is actually helping the state (in a small, entirely backwards, way) by keeping many more people from wanting to move there.