there are a lot of great spots in tx... your $ will go farther here, too.
Houston is big enough an area that you could eventually find a job, probably no matter what you do.
Corpus is good, but a little less liveable (in my opinion)
South Padre is probably a little better for kiting (from what i hear only- havent been there), but farther away from the rest of the world.
I picked Houston for me... for the reasons I mentioned above.
I imagine some other forum members will be by to chime in also.
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Flysurfer Soul v2 12m, Soul 15m, Soul v2 21m
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