I'm not sure I can attest to "Texas is like a whole other country" from my lack of experience with most of the world. But I can tell you that Texas is like no other place I have been. There are some positives and some negatives that go along with that. But at the end of the day, what place is 100% glowingly positive? Tell me, and I WANT to go there! Texas is also very, varied! You have the booming metrapolis that is said to be a cultural and world center in Dallas, while right next door in Fort Worth, you would swear you stepped into the wild west. Then you have the sparsely polulated west Texas, panhandle, the deep south where you really can't tell if you are in Mexico or the US, San Antonio, and Houston. If there is one thing that I can say that goes along with the quote, I don't think you will so many differences in any other state. But then again, Texas is not the size of any other state.