Uuugh! You can have west Texas.
You can have most of the state for that matter.
The only part of Texas I could ever see myself living in is the Hill Country.
The hill country starts in the west, traveling from New Mexico to Louisiana. The key is to find a place near a river and there are many crossing the land loaded with months long snow melt from the Rockies barreling downhill toward the Gulf of Mexico.
Some of the nicer land is near the gulf where pine wood forests still support a logging industry.
But, central parts of the state have amazing vistas and fertile areas, near Kerrville or Uvalde, San Antonio and San Marcos.
Get within about a hundred miles of the Rio Grande River and you reach flatland, absolutely laser flat for two hundred miles, including the other side of the river. That land is ancient river flood plain or delta area that is VERY fertile and grows anything that can take the heat. Obviously they grow three or four crops every year. Freezing is rare and very short lived, so brassicas or cole crops are grown in cool seasons, but they also plant alliums such as onions and garlic, which will be harvested after full maturity in the late spring.
Desert living is not for everyone, granted, but you learn what to do and they grow crops and cattle. Where I grew up is a light desert and they get way too much rain every year to be an actual desert, but it usually comes at three or four times per year.
That is why, traveling across west Texas, you see these mile long bridges crossing a dry creek bed. That is because when it DOES rain you will need that bridge to cross that creek.
