Texas is a southern state and is mostly hot/warm throughout the year.
The average person there doesn't own a coat, doesn't have heating or insulation in their house, their pipes aren't designed to protect against the cold so they burst, and they have no history of knowing how to handle snow so I doubt the state has a decent number of machines/vehicles designed to handle the snow.
Point is, people from a place that has never had a problem, can't deal with it the way everyone else that has said issue deals with it every year.
Are house prices much less in the south due to there being no heating and insulation along with all the heat ducts and whatnot that is required when a house has a central furnace for heat like nearly every house up north? I would think that would reduce the cost of home building significantly
It's a factor, but not much. In Florida for example you might not have a furnace, but you have two air conditioners. Ducting is needed for either heating or cooling.
I have two central heaters and two central air conditioners LoL
I have always heard that you can get a lot more home for the same amount of money in Texas.
That may be part of the reason why. Though I know that home prices are much less here up north than anywhere I have ever looked in the south USA
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