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Remember the Alamo! The Lone Star state is the only
state that was a country before joining the Union. From
beaches to mountains, Texans have a great deal from
which to choose. Heavily influenced by its former Spanish
rule, Texans enjoy some of the most interesting influences
in music and culture in Tejanos.
In Dallas Starbucks and coffeehouses, workers are
taking up residence in alternative office space. For
a few well-documented years, technology and changing
business attitudes have freed some employees from the
traditional office and allowed them to work out of their
homes. Now, some are seeking freedom from their homes
as well, setting up shop in Dallas' caffeine emporiums.
There they join traditional denizens such as retirees
and students, becoming the new coffeehouse regulars.
At one Dallas Starbucks recently, Ward shared the
bar with Michael Sitarzewski and Julie DiBella, who
run their Macintosh sales and support business almost
exclusively from the tables of coffeehouses across the
Dallas area. The qualities that make a coffeehouse good
for office work include computer ports, proximity to
clients and the attitude of the employees. But there
is also -- as they would say at one favorite, La Madeleine
-- a certain je ne sais quoi.
Oil is still the symbol of Texas, along with Longhorn
cattle and, more recently, high-tech. Poised on the
precipice of the 21st century, Texas embraces cattle
and ranching as critical components of the states's
economy; the state has also had phenomenal success in
luring high-tech and space engineering corporations
from the East and West coasts.
Space engineering is a natural offshoot of NASA's decision
in the early 1960s to build the Lyndon B. Johnson Space
Center in Houston. The high-tech and computer industries
that cropped up around NASA received support from the
state's flagship universities, and today these industries
are big players in the state's economy. Texas is headquarters
for numerous Fortune 500 companies, and it has emerged
as a leader in computer manufacturing.
If you are an avid poultry, pigeon, rodent or rabbit
lover moving to the city of San Antonio, you will want
to note that there are very specific limitations on
how many of your favorite you may love at one time.
Click here
to review San Antonio's animal codes.
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