I feel ya. Used to survive in the Dale City Region 6 years ago. Come to south central TX, but beware there is a TON of construction down here. Sometimes I wish I lived in the central Rockies, or in the Yukon Territories, or even in the Australian Outback. Anyplace with a few people, nearest city is 100 miles away, and no one there has ever seen a construction machine in 50 years.
I am sick to DEATH of construction and development. Its turning everything it touches into a total hellhole that would have the devil himself drooling with covetousness.
I know I am being self centered here but sometimes I wish I could have an entire PLANET, an earthlike planet, to myself and maybe about 20 other people and construction was outlawed for the next 2500 years.
Give south central Texas 5-10 years. Welcome to Coruscant, because that is what we will be. Every tree will be gone. Concrete for hundreds of miles in every direction. Brobdingnagian taxes and traffic jams. General weather patterns about 30 degrees hotter and 60 percent drier.