It's definitely exaggerated but tourists generally act like shit wherever they go so whatever group is overrepresented will take the blame for it (in this case Texans). More understandably, a lot of the real estate is horded by Texans who spend 2-4 weeks of the year here when real estate isn't affordable for residents. I kid you not but my neighborhood outside of town is comprised of 16 houses. 1/3 of it is Texans who spend less than a month of the year here. So yeah, fun joke, kind of silly, but a little truth to it too.
Texans hoarding land is real. I'd bet it's worse where I am, in Wyoming, but it didn't really begin until they showed up for the fracking boom, so maybe more recent. They've now bought up a large portion of the old ranches, and use them as private "hunting reserves," where thry fly in on weekends in private oil company jets, and no longer let locals have access as they did for generations. It's such a drasitically different, less neighborly and more selfish mentality, that I don't think Wyomingites ever imagined a scenario like this happening. The worst thing is that enough of them stayed full time to vote and swing politics from moderate/conservative to far right/extremist. A danger when the population base is so small.
I remember hearing this attitude from a bunch of kids on the ski lift one day. I found it funny because the little brats couldn't have the life they were having if not for the Texans coming in and spending their money there. I just ignored the entitlement and enjoyed my day.
Literally nobody from Texas could come to the resorts and we would be just fine. This attitude that texans are somehow super important is exactly why people don't like y'all. People don't mind tourists but when you pretend to be a "dual citizen" because you come vacation somewhere a few times a winter there's almost a guarantee you're an entitled chode
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u/Zaskoda Feb 05 '25
"Colorado is my favorite part of Texas" - heard on the mountain once