amarillo maybe... dalhart...

northwest texas is a desert too, but it's got altitude, and yeah i'm totally down with the attitude of the place, especially distant from Austin and Houston

i'm fine with living in a dry place, really, just needs to be high and there needs to be accessible water that would remain accessible even without electricity... in Australia it is very common in the dry country west of the Great Dividing Range to see these iron windmill things that pump water up out of the ground, i almost forgot that

so, gonna chalk that one up on the list as well... wyoming has low land prices, texas has good culture, colorado maybe not a good option