That would be sad. This site may go down one day. Bob has alluded to it many times. Does that mean you'll have nothing to do?
Has West Texas really been so good to you that nothing else has any appeal? You might want to consider finding greener pastures.
It sounds like your sister thinks you're crazy for staying there. I don't know if you'd ever want to get closer to her, but I do know that I spent a dozen years or so seeing the country and trying to figure out where I'd want to live one day. I always knew that I did *NOT* want to live virtually my entire life in one place.
Until I found New Hampshire, I was leaning toward Ogden Utah and rural Idaho. Neither scored all that well on my checklist, but both were better than other places I'd been, and I'd been to a lot. When I finally saw New Hampshire, it was an easy decision. I'm so lucky that my wife supported me in it. She actually went along with buying the first piece of land... which committed us to building a house and moving there one day... without ever having seen New England. Now, that's what I call having faith in your spouse! If the situation had been reversed, I don't know if I could have done the same. (That's something I won't be telling her.)
That's my situation. Knowing that I'll be moving to a place that makes me happy has kept me sane these last fourteen years. I can't even imagine what would happen to me if I was still stuck in Sacramento with no prospects of ever leaving.
What's the appeal of West Texas? I know it's got your memories, but trust me as a person who left his home town long ago: You'll have those memories no matter where you go. It's the NEW memories that you should be focused on, and you should do what you can to make them good ones.
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