Austin, TX
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- mikotondria3
Hey, just came back from a few days down there - my first time. Boy, what a an awesome city :) Saw my first unironic handlebar moustache, paired with sockless dress-shoes and shorts, went canoeing on the lake, ate the most awesome food cart food and vegan fayre, went drinking on 6th street, danced myself silly in Kingdom, blissed out and roasted at the pool at Baxter Springs park, met some great chilled people, thrift shopped til I thrift dropped, was delighted to the point of astonishment with the flagship Whole Foods, and enjoyed all of it, cliched or not, without an ounce of ironic, post-modernist snark - something the entire city seemed bereft of. Congrats, ATX, you are officially one of my fave US cities, can't wait to go back, maybe permanently. Any atxers here ?
- dbloc0
born and raised....moved to cali a while back though. still love it there, but opted to be on the coast.
- For work, or just beachiness ?mikotondria3
- wanted to live on the beachdbloc
- miss the food thoughdbloc
- mg330
Best place in TX. Maybe you can get back and venture out more into the rest of the area around there. The Hill Country is beautiful, full of awesome stuff like this:
Enchanted Rock
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mg3…
- dbloc0
- used to go here all the time as a kid. There are little caves under water.dbloc
- wow - sounds dangerous.bulletfactory
- ...awesome and dangerous.bulletfactory
- Yep :) Went here. Was effing freezing - I don't do well with coldish water. Lovely though, blazing hot day, too.mikotondria3
- Sorry I misspelled it in my original post.mikotondria3
- Went there plenty as a kid on trips to Austinmg33
- Oh that looks great!RIZ
- that looks really refreshing. WANT.CanHasQBN
- Looks over-crowded lifeguard looks like he is in a coma.utopian
- robotron3k0
- If it washes off, do you then have to pay ?mikotondria3
- Nice! Is it that specific tattoo, or any Lone Star-themed tattoo?MondoMorphic
- xcreonx0
Glad your experience here was a good one!
- mikotondria30
It was, I was genuinely fullfilled, delighted, recharged and inspired by the town. So diverse and easy-going. Keep Austin Weird ? I didn't think it was weird at all :)
- they mean weird as in express yourself....creativi...dbloc
- *I guess they do :)mikotondria3
- MondoMorphic0
I absolutely love Austin! It's such a great town and the people are great - especially the long-time residents.
- bliznutty0
I hear Austin is a great city, but I can't put any city above New Orleans
- Most every city is above New Orleans, its below sea levelalbums
- ha :) After a few days in Austin, we drove over for a couple in Nola. It was as magic as ever. I don't need to explain, do I :) ?mikotondria3
- was in NOLA last weekend....fun city.dbloc
- n1 albums :Dbliznutty
- arthur0
Tubing, Salt Lick, and more tubing make the perfect weekend.
- vaxorcist0
I had a friend from Austin who told me he loved Austin almost as much as he hated west texas....
- nothing in west texasdbloc
- marfa, mcdonald observatory, fredricksburg, white sands, el paso, nope, nothing out there...robotron3k
- jbasnight0
we moved here 8 yrs ago and absolutely love it. Great vibe & super nice people
- Might join you :)mikotondria3
- *great work on your site, btw..mikotondria3
- robotron3k0
I escaped from there like 10 years ago. I could take the blistering heat and I could deal with the lack of quality women there—but it was the horrible "country & blues" music that ALL the bands and musicians played at the bars that was the thing that ran me off, it was pure torture. I mean the only reason I would go to bars in the first place was just to get out of the heat.
- but i am doing my part to convince hipsters to move there esp. during the summer...robotron3k
- dbloc0
surprise Dave Chappelle show tonight @ Paramount
- vaxorcist0
is Austin like Madison and many other cool college towns, where there are millions of cool people but it's pretty hard to make a living in design/photo/film/video/anything creative because 1. no major companies and 2. millions of competitors ?
- nadanada0
oh, i would move to austin in a heartbeat.
i like buying antique medical paraphernalia at uncommon objects on south congress, and drinking cases of shiner bock at the salt lick.
going for a week in october........ might not come back.
- mg330
My wife and I were just down in the Hill Country seeing my family in New Braunfels, and spent a few days in Austin as we usually do. I'm from Texas as some of you know; l grew up in the Ft. Worth suburbs and moved to Chicago in 2001.
We really started to daydream about moving to Austin. We sold our condo in Chicago back in September, made great money on it, and still haven't found a house in the Chicago suburbs. What we could buy in Austin within 12-15 miles of downtown is incredible vs. Chicago. A $400K new construction home down there would easily cost a million more in Chicago.
We've got family within an hour south, and within 3 hours north of Austin, which is great since we have another kid on the way in June. It's easy for me to imagine moving - I've already done it once, but she's always lived in Illinois and her family is about 1 1/2 hours away.
Tech jobs seem plentiful in Austin, maybe more so than in Chicago.
Anyone have some advice, insight, etc. about living there? I know what the heat is like in the summer and i know it can be brutal. Trying to imagine dealing with that with kids, being active outdoors. It would be an adjustment for her for sure. I'd love the greater amount of outdoor stuff - cycling, hiking, more landscape photography, rivers and swimming, and being able to get down to New Braunfels regularly to see my family.
Any thoughts?
- No brainer, more opportunity and less taxes in Texas. Just don't bring a communist mindset or anti constitution baggage with you. Probably more tech jobs in DFWHayoth
- fastest growing city right now.dbloc
- I'd move to Libya before I'd move back to DFW!mg33
- At least Austin is predominantly liberal, but I do worry about overall Texas politics continuing to mess up so much there.mg33
- If you can survive a summer in Chicago you can survive a summer in Austin.fooler
- ^ It barely gets above 90 here and the past few summers have been really mild.mg33
- Consider San Marcos, fantastic place & between two great cities Austin and historic San Antonio and no traffic.robotron3k