Like anywhere, I’m sure that there are some nice areas in Amarillo, but I can’t think of a worse place to be off hand. For the same price you couldn’t you buy a house in somewhere like Victorville? That way you could at least get to the beach or to Las Vegas in three hours.
We were driving through Amarillo in the mid-90’s on a trip to the East Coast, and we hit the absolute worst thunderstorm I have ever seen in my life. There were lightning strikes literally every 5 seconds for an hour or more, and it rained harder than I ever dreamed possible. It pretty much seemed like the world was coming to an end. It rained so hard that we were on the freeway going 10 miles an hour and we couldn’t see anything, so we had to pull off the road and stay overnight near Amarillo.
I’m guessing they get some nasty dust storms, too, since the wind seems to blow about 70 mph 24/7.
