You leaving well enough alone made for a stable, polite society that is a good refugee target from these idiots fleeing the consequences of their own voting habits.
but I am not left well enough alone. Theres too many people here, the tourists, the mormon subhumans. I cant go about my business since every old washed up woodstock whore has nothing to do but harass and case problems for regular normal people. This place is a gilded cage. I'd rather be halfway up a mountain in bumfuck Idaho or Washington or Montana and have nobody around. At least there I can defend myself from future doctors and lawyers.
Nobody is moving to the high plains, what? That's all crumbling 1920s buildings and pivot irrigators.
Back to Asia.
What exactly is there in the High Plains of TX?
The wind farms are a blight. They're so fucking hideous and depressing. And they're using that energy to crack what water the sodbusters haven't taken into hydrogen and oxygen.
They adjusted the zone maps last year. 8a comes right up to the southern corner of Lubbock. That, plus the correct rootstock, I think you could do it. The West Indian and Guatemalan cultivars are tropical, but the Mexican cultivars are just barely cold-hardy. With those, it's not about the snap freeze so much as duration. Same with olives, would have to have Mission/Arbequina... but if the trees were large enough before being acclimated to the outside, they'd survive 24-48 hours through whatever a Lubbock winter might throw at it.
Are they nice towns? Do they mind their own business? Spots to shoot around? How's the fish and game?
I mean, I'll take them over Midland or Odessa, but no, they suck. All the formerly nice parts of Texas are way too expensive now, and often no longer nice. The Panhandle has more in common with Kansas than it does with Central Texas.
I've been reading up on them lately, my wife puts it down at the top of her list of things she wouldn't want to live without. Allegedly, the right varieties can survive down to around 18F°. The internet articles claiming this are suspicious, of course, but I've found a few better sources that agree they can briefly survive sub-freezing temperatures. Neither the exact temperature nor the duration are mentioned. It can't possibly be weeks of this, it likely isn't days. And at the very extreme edge (18F°), it must be shorter still. I intend to find out. There are potential mitigation strategies, planting the tree near something that would help to keep it warm, right up next to a house in espalier, perhaps. Or surrounding it with other mature trees that are more cold hardy as a sort of wind break. Hell, some avocado trees put out 1500-2000 lbs of fruit... you don't need that many of them. I think I can maybe afford to perform heroic measures to keep one alive.
You could have many failures before you dialed in the right practices to keep one alive. But I think that if someone didn't give up, eventual success has better than even odds. Larger, more mature trees will survive winters that saplings won't, and there's no way to know if this winter or the next will just be one of those oddball testicle-freezing frozen hells that come around once every other decade. If you could get a 3"dia trunk on a tree before you had to deal with that, those winters aren't going to kill the tree, the worst they'll do is just give you a fruitless season the following year. You should go for it. If you even got one tree to grow, Hormex #8 ($13/jar on Amazon) would turn each 8" stick cut from it into another rooted cutting.
In January I was unloading at a dock in Lubbock at 11 degrees. That should be unconstitutional.
I don't want to pick a fight, but are you really sure that this is true? I assume that most of us already live somewhere in the US. Please consider the people who live in the northern wastelands up above us. They are practically under siege already... I regularly see headlines that their government wants to increase their total population from 30 million to 100 million. You might think that it's only Toronto and Montreal and Vancouver, you could hardly be faulted if that were the case. Apparently, though, you can drive through any of those smaller towns and villages between these places and find more than a few of humanity's toilet-training-resistant brethren. There are no jobs anywhere, and the so-called student-immigrants don't actually attend higher education; it's just quite often outright fraud.
It's possible (if you have a good microclimate) but they won't grow very well, and they only last a few hours or two in the cold (No sustained chill resistance). Mexican avacadoes are the most cold hardy. There's an unamed hybrid variety alongside 'Winter Mexican' a lot of folks grow in the RGV that'll survive ~19F as a mature tree.
There's always some insane lunatic (or rich retard) outside Houston whose tried it and failed. They really don't like sudden cold snaps and the presence of a virulent strain of Xylella fastidiosa makes them a non-starter in most of the gulf coast as it causes OQDS.
Folks in the Brazos valley have been calling everyone north of the Brazos a damned yankee forever. Folks in Tyler have been complaining about Metroplex tards forever. Metroplex has been shitting on Houston (literally via the trinity) since forever.
