there arent too many worse places than midland, even amarillo has the 72oz steak, but pretty much as far as texas goes if your not in austin dallas houston or san antonio your miserable, i do know some hot girls that grew up there though so find one for yourself, or get into hunting, as far as i know thats about it, sorry bro, on a positive note all the kids i know that put in time with oil and gas companies in midland for a couple years are now making huge bucks in the big cities