Kinda random but since we're taking about locations, I thought I should throw this here. Thing I liked about Texas was there was a ton of machine shops and stuff like that. Here we have machine shops (obv) but they are kinda snobby, way too expensive, and don't really want to help little guys (people who aren't attached to a company and don't want to buy in bulk). Texas was cheap as fek, got decent work done, people were very accommodating. I have yet to find a shop like that here (hopefully I will) . All the work for the 70cc was around $90 (open up a hole and make a step in a gear, cut drill and tap 2 aluminum peices and one steel piece drill sum poop, cut and reweld the exhaust which took 3 hours , modify case for the 39.7 crank,make a spacer for me, and make a flywheel) . And here, was $25 to open up one hole in one gear. So it's feking expensive here. But other than that, in Texas there's nothing I'm missing out on tbh.
Oh and in Texas people where way less bitchy about noise