Texas, born and raised (minus high school). It's too hot for my tastes, and half of my entire family lives here because my mom likes to live close to home (my dad is from Massachusetts, where all of his family still lives). You also have to drive forever to get anywhere. The people are nice enough, at least for me, a straight white male. I certainly wouldn't mind living somewhere else, preferably somewhere cold, but I'm planning on taking advantage of the state college benefits for veterans, so for now I'm going to stay.
No, I don't have an accent. Probably partly because I grew up on the gulf coast, where there doesn't seem to be much of an accent, and partly because neither of my parents have accents, even though their's do.
I've been to Houston dozens of times and San Antonio a few times, but I've only ever been to Dallas, Austin, and El Paso once. The city I live in, Corpus Christi, is... okay. It's not huge, which suits me just fine, but it's big enough to warrant grocery delivery services, which also suits me just fine. It's also very very windy, one of the windiest cities in the U.S. I believe, which helps combat the heat a bit.
As states go, Texas seems to be pretty high up there in terms of pride, but fails on nearly every level to back it up. I'm not saying it's the worst state, but for all its people boasting about how great it is, it really doesn't measure up.