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To: tejek who wrote (875435)	7/26/2015 8:14:35 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1584442

I take it its by choice. Pretty much. You run across the same story, "I went to A&M for college and fell in love with the area". It isn't like the area doesn't have its charms. Bryan and College Station is out in the sticks. Basically 3 hours from Houston, Dallas and Austin, all in different directions. Bryan is in the north, originally was the rail head for the surrounding farms. College Station is to the south, primarily it was to support the university. Each are about 60k or so in population. They have now met in the middle, both towns have grown up around S. Texas/Hwy 6 and sort of looks like a mantis beetle on a map, with lake Bryan forming the space between the mandibles. There still is significant farming going on in the area, but a lot of rural poverty. The area was settled by German and Czech settlers in the mid-1800s or so. My Dad grew up not far from there. It would be a decent place to retire. There is the university and all of the diversity a world class one represents. It isn't a very exciting place, outside of university sports, most of the excitement involves students and alcohol. Bryan was pretty prosperous once. They have an extensive public park system and lots of city services. There is even decent mass transit and lots of bike lanes. TAMU has done a poor job of spinning off any of the technology developed there. And they have developed a lot. The university did start up an incubator, but that was less than a decade ago and hasn't had a homerun yet. But it would be a great place to gamble on an idea. Ready supply of talent, a lot of them just begging for a reason to stay...