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My name is Adi.I am male.I’m Hindu.I am a Texan-American.I am of Indian descent.Politically, I’m a small r republican.Philosophically, I try to comply with the principles of stoicism.Economically, I lean Chicago school and to some extent Austrian.I am an American patriot.I have siblings.I own around 1,200 books.I have read An American Life by Ronald Reagan 5 times.My favorite U.S. President and Founding Father is George Washington.I have an iPhone.I have a MacBook and a Windows PC.My favorite pistol is my Colt Combat Commander 1911.My favorite semi-auto rifle is currently my Ruger AR-556.My highest 1 rep max bench press was 500 Lbs.I played football in high school.I was a boxer.I am in my early 20s.I participated in dozens of fights during middle and high school, sometimes against multiple opponents. I won most of the time.Some of my friends in high school called me Iron Adi.As you can expect from the points above, I spent a lot of time in the Vice Principal’s office in high school.I hated pretty much every single day of school. All the way from Kindergarten through my senior year of high school.I drive a Toyota Tundra.I am 6′2″.My main hobbies are weightlifting, shooting at the range, photography, teaching, and writing on Quora.I’m currently learning the basics of woodworking and gardening.I hate most cities. I’m a country boy at heart. My dream is to retire on 10–15 acres of rural land and spend my time farming, woodworking, brewing beer, shooting, hunting, fishing, and spending time with my family.I want to get married in the next few years and have a few kids.I’ve started and failed at a couple of businesses.My main areas of academic and personal interest are economic policy, foreign policy, international affairs, geopolitics, constitutional law, the administrative state, and American history.I have 4 flags in my house. An American flag, the Texas flag, and the Gadsden flag. I also have a Hindu flag.I am a pretty decent cook.I prefer short (5′0″ to 5′5″), fair, pretty, and hourglass shaped brunette women.I dislike third wave feminism.My favorite superhero is Batman.Some of my favorite movies are the Christopher Nolan Batman trilogy, The Godfather, Scarface, American Sniper, all the Rambo movies, Rocky (1, 2, 3, & 4), Saving Private Ryan, Patton, Flags of our Fathers, The Bridge on the River Kwai, The Hunt for Red October, Braveheart, Terminator, Heartbreak Ridge, 12 Strong, and Black Hawk Down.I have a Playstation 4 which I rarely play anymore.My favorite video game is Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.These are some of my greatest American heroes: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Nathanael Greene, Patrick Henry, Ben Franklin, John Adams, James Madison, James Monroe, Andrew Jackson, Robert E. Lee, Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson, Ulysses S. Grant, William “Tecumseh” Sherman, Grover Cleveland, Calvin Coolidge, John J. Pershing, Douglas MacArthur, George Patton, Chesty Puller, Matthew Ridgeway, Creighton Abrams, Charlie Beckwith, Thomas Edison, JP Morgan, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Steve Jobs, and James Mattis.These are some of my greatest non-American heroes: Alexander the Great, King Ashoka of the Maurya Empire, Hannibal of Carthage, Publius Cornelius Scipio, Julius Caesar, Augutus Caesar, Marcus Aurelius, Genghis Khan, Jebe (Genghis Khan’s General), Subotai (Genghis Khan’s General), John Locke, and Napoleon Bonaparte.I have small statues of George Washington, Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Julius Caesar, Genghis Khan, and Ronald Reagan in my office.My favorite Scotch Whisky is Lagavulin 16.My favorite Bourbon is Maker’s 46.My favorite beer is Shiner Bock.I have broken a couple of bones.I have a 50 inch 4K LG TV that I purchased on Black Friday.My favorite shoes are my Clark’s Desert boots.My 2 favorite knives are my Marine Ka-Bar (that a friend gave me) and my trusty Bowie knife.My favorite TV shows are White Collar, Breaking Bad, and Batman: The Animated Series.I’ve been to all 50 states.I’ve visited more than a dozen countries.I listen to a bunch of hip hop. My favorite rap group is The Wu-Tang Clan.I’ve had a mustache and full beard for more or less 2 years now.Despite being ethnically Indian, a lot of people think I am Turkish, Afghan Pashtun, and even Mexican.I once met three Indian celebrities in one day.I just got a motorcycle license.I’m fluent in 3 languages.A group of leftist thugs once attempted to intimidate my girlfriend and I in a gas station.I once stopped a group of guys from potentially sexually harassing a girl.A group of gay guys once harassed me on a subway in NYC for laughing at a joke.I make a mean Apple pie.I absolutely love pizza.My favorite ice cream flavor is chocolate fudge.My favorite doughnut flavor is Boston Creme.I rarely go clothes shopping.My favorite stores are Costco and Academy.I make the vast majority of my online purchases on Amazon.I have a Canon 5D Mark III DSLR camera.I spend hours and hours using Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel for work.I’ve had the same barber for the last 3 years and I get a haircut and beard trim every fortnight.I hate waking up after 10 AM.I like lawn mowing and yard work.I own 7 bookshelves.I really like hiking and camping.Babies and dogs love me.One of my college english professors inappropriately flirted with me several times. It was extremely awkward, mainly because he was a 40 year old dude.When I went to a roadhouse in Missouri, a really drunk woman in her 50s tried to physically pin me to a wall to kiss me. I didn't want to hurt her feelings, so I quickly slipped out of her grasp and escaped with my friends.I change my own oil.I generally hate going to nightclubs.I like roadhouses.I don't eat beef because I am Hindu.I don't like flying. I prefer driving if it is practical.I love eating Chick-fil-AI like hunting and fishing.I was once 2 yards away from a cougar in the woods.I smoked cigarettes in high school. I quit in less than a year.My dad once caught me passed out drunk when in high school. When I woke up, my parents took away my computer, phone, iPod, and pretty much any other luxury. I was grounded for 2 months.I ran away from home once in middle school. I came back in less than a day.My friends and I once attempted to domesticate a rabbit we found in the forest. It didn't really work, so we put the rabbit back in the forest after a couple of days.My favorite national park so far is Zion National Park, I’ve been there twice.My favorite major American city is Dallas, TX.I have a pretty high pain tolerance.I’m terrible at skiing.I once met a guy in Nashville who looked a lot like me. A bunch of people thought we were brothers or cousins.My friend group is like a college diversity commercial. It’s 5 dudes of different races/ethnicities.I am a cinephile.I bake banana bread pretty often.

Here in Flower Mound (affectionately, FloMo), we are roughly the geographic navel of the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, which puts us at the apex of the Texas Triangle boom region. What that means is that when you drive south or east from here, you are contending with cement mixers, construction and shopping districts. When you drive north and west, you are soon passing through cattle pastures, old-time Texas courthouse-in-the-town-square towns and a distinct lack of shopping districts, unless it’s a feed store and a boot store side-by-side. I count that straddle a plus—never have decided whether I’m a country boy or city boy.The city was largely the idea of Stanley Marcus of Neiman Marcus fame along with his brother Edward who owned a ranch here and for whom the first local high school was named. A much-ballyhooed ranch visit from Coco Chanel to receive the 50th-anniversary iteration of N-M’s prestigious fashion award put Flower Mound on the map in 1957, just four years before my parents moved us up the brand new Interstate to nearby Lewisville. LHS was an AA-sized high school when I started, not even 500 students, with a small handful of my classmates taking the bus in from the ranches that dotted Flower Mound then.When I graduated in 1967 and split for what I expected to be for good, the Flower Mound population sign said Pop. 762. By 2020’s census, that should be comfortably over 70,000, with FloMo still being part of the Lewisville ISD, which now boasts five 5A high schools in the same geographic boundaries, to give you an idea of the growth over the past half century… and counting. Most Texas newcomers are here in the Texas Triangle.That’s us there in the second row of counties an hour’s drive from the Red River/ Oklahoma border—Denton County, putting us in the Cross Timbers mix of mesquite (outstanding grilling) and post oak (premium barbecuing). We sit on red-clay soil. A century and a half ago, the Shawnee Trail passed through Dallas and up Preston Ridge through the Blackland Prairie. Just to the west, the Chisholm Trail made its way to Kansas. Both are miles and miles of flat-as-a-pancake “highways” for Longhorns, but right in our immediate vicinity, we have ourselves a bit of terrain, the only topography in all of North Texas pretty much. And that feature adds about 15 percent to house prices, which generally run $350–550K and right on up.There are slightly more upscale communities in the area with equally good schools in Plano to our east, North Dallas/University Park, Southlake (across Grapevine Lake from us) and parts of Fort Worth. Dallas and Fort Worth are each 35 minutes from us (barring construction) and DFW Airport is only 20 minutes (15 minutes from most of FloMo). Dallas is finance, insurance, SMU, retail, glitz and glamour and a bit of tech. Fort Worth is the Gateway to the West, western apparel, Billy Bob’s, TCU and line dancing. It is a city that just works, with a lot of harmony, vitality and spirit. Both major cities offer a full array of cultural amenities.Flower Mound for the main is relentlessly white, upper middle class and Christian. If that’s your element, you’ll fit right in. To tell you the truth, I was dead-set against moving here when we decided to transplant fifteen years ago. I wanted to be in the Edwards Plateau—some of the most beautiful country and coolest communities on the planet, but my wife insisted on being closer to her elderly parents in Kansas, while the middle son would move only if he could spend his last two years of high school in a top-tier baseball program. Well, the new Flower Mound High School offered that, the number-3 program in the country. Also, while he was there, the school led the state in number of National Merit Scholarship candidates. When the youngest arrived a year later (he wanted to spend his first year in high school in California), he was seduced by the top computer animation program in the country.The school was not as racially and linguistically diverse as their high school in California, but then few if any are. The school here had numbers of Nigerians and Indians, more congenial race relations, and the minority students were high-achiever types. The school was every bit as Republican/conservative as their California school had been Democratic/progressive. Everything was handled with alacrity and a smile, which suited me just fine.I was okay with Flower Mound because I knew where the old lakeside communities were tucked away—three coves, not easy to find where mostly airline pilots stationed to DFW when it was new built little second homes starting in the late 60s. Over the years, these got added to and become full-sized homes with a lot more charm than the tract homes in town. Those tucked away neighborhoods are a lot more fun too, with regular wine parties and cookouts and with more diversity, including Indians, Peruvians, several South Africans and Europeans, just in our immediate neighborhood. We have miles of lakeside trails out our backdoor, with red fox, gray fox, bobcats, mountain lions, beaver, deer, boar, coyote, armadillos and, unfortunately, cottonmouth moccasins and copperheads, both venomous species of snakes.Being truthful again, I had my doubts how my wife would take to this area after three decades on the San Francisco Peninsula. She adores it. She loves our neighbors and neighborhood and positively adores Fort Worth. After graduating school, there was nothing to keep the boys here, but then suburbs in general aren’t for young people. They all ended up in New York City after college. Here is a great place to raise younger kids though. If you want to grow them Texas tough, come out where we are. If you prefer suave urbanites, stay in town. You have a lot of choices around here of many types, all of them affordably priced.Thursday add: The neighbor two doors over just called to say that when he checked on what was making the chickens of the neighbor between us squawk, he spooked a bobcat the size of his boxer into our backyard… keep the pets inside. We definitely have wildlife, and we definitely have good neighbors.

My spouse and I moved from Texas to the Chattanooga area in 1995. We are raising three boys here. One day, we will head back to Texas, but it's very easy to live here. It is very, very pretty, and quite temperate (to a Texan).Following are my observations and recommendations concerning Chattanooga through the eyes of a Texan:First, it rains quite a bit at this point on the Cumberland Plateau. Average rainfall is 54–55 inches per year. And yet, the sun shines on average of 207 days per year. Rain + Sun = Humidity. Skin and hair care should be adjusted to manage both high moisture and sun exposure. Mold and mildew grow very quickly in areas that are not well-ventilated, so it is important to manage structures and spaces accordingly (like storage closets).The Tennessee River, part of the French Broad system that drains into the Ohio River, runs along the ridges, through the city’s downtown area and down the Tennessee Valley. It is possible to travel by boat to the downtown dock at Ross’s Landing, dock for free, walk to a downtown restaurant and enjoy a good meal, then walk back to the boat and continue one’s trip. The river connects Chattanooga to Knoxville Tennessee - this is can be a very pleasant trip. I recommend spending some time on the water, even if it's just renting some paddle boards, canoes, or kayaks for part of the day. The water is generally gentle (except for the gorge area), and it's a lot of fun.Purchase some quality outdoor equipment to wander around the local parks and trails, even if it's just a generic pair of Keen hiking sandals. Standard athletic shoes are really not up to the task of walking around the area - they become slippery. Please note that people severely twist ankles and fall off elevations (and sometimes die) here every year - good awareness and better footwear can keep one from slipping and hurting one’s self.When considering housing, remember that you are moving into a river valley. Make sure that your residence is outside of the 100 year flood zone. A lot of newer housing in the Ooltewah/East Brainerd area is built on farmland, which was somewhat fertile because of intermittent flooding. You can purchase maps from the Tennessee Valley Authority to verify flood zones - caveat emptor. Don't depend upon your realtor.There is hydro- and nuclear power, which means that electricity is much cheaper than in Texas. Food is more expensive, because most of it is not locally sourced - the soil in the mountains is generally poor for large-scale agriculture. But food is cheaper than, say, New England.People in the area, on average, are very community-oriented and generous with time and money. To quickly plug in and make friends, find a community-oriented cause that you can support and spend some time volunteering. Voila! Doors will open and you will meet/network with some truly great and influential people. This is true across the ideological/political spectrum: Chattanoogans like to give back.Now for my observations on the state of local public education, which will probably win me no friends:It is a poorly-kept secret in the local private schools that children who transfer in from Chattanooga public schools are, on average, two years behind standard by seventh grade. Even the crown high schools in Ooltewah and Signal Mountain are merely superior when compared to other regional schools.The public schools are so poorly funded and managed that the state has recently moved to take over a handful of schools in the city. I hear a lot of excuses, mostly classist and racist. I mean, what can one do about THOSE PEOPLE. I grew up in Dallas, Texas, where there are similar challenges of crime and poverty, yet more is accomplished with less. It is a sad mess, and it has simply become worse in the two-plus decades that I have lived here. And that is all I have to say about that.Finally, there are Christians everywhere, involved in everything. All kinds of Christians: Eastern Orthodox, Reformed tradition, many Methodists, lots of types of Baptists and Presbyterians and Lutherans and Churches of God, different types of Anglican/Episcopalian, Adventist, Roman Catholic, Pilgrim Congregational, AME, you name it, we’ve got it. It's really not possible to get away from them. There are very large crosses and Jesus Loves You billboards and small random signs thanking God for things, nailed to poles and painted on people’s cars. If this creates consternation and damages your inner peace, don't move to Chattanooga. It's not worth constant discomfort and eventually retreating into sniping bitterness - this is America, after all. There is space for everyone to thrive and be happy.Welcome to Chattanooga!