I went to college and graduate school in Texas, lived in Houston for four years, Irving for a year and half and Odessa for a number of years. I loved Odessa and West Texas but thought Houston had a horrible climate (muggy, hot, sticky, lots of bugs and if the wind blows the wrong way it stinks from the oil refineries, also whenever it rains it floods). Also the Gulf of Mexico is way too hot to enjoy swimming in, the last time I went swimming in it, it felt gross, you are sweating in the warm water.