Based on your original post, sounds like you need to be on Houston or Dallas (or the outskirts or both). I'm only saying you wouldn't mind to heat just cause Ive been in it do long, yet I'm used to both hot and cold weather places. I haven't been to Seattle in a llong time, but my relatives there have no complaints (even if some have been migrating to Houston for years now). Also, if you're looking to pay 1700 for a 2 bedroom apartment, you'd have a lot of options to pay much less than that for a good apartment in a good area just in Texas in general.
@moundraised me and some friends drove from AR to Memphis solely to eat some BBQ, so Memphis is all good to me