Austin, Tx

[brtnstrns]

I lived in Austin my whole life and loved it and would love to move back. Definitely getting over crowded but there is an insane amount of stuff to do down there.
Northwest Austin is the best place to live to avoid the douche crowd. There are plenty of bars for every scene and the bartenders everywhere are generally awesome unless you're acting like a tool.

Its really easy to ignore the hipsters or the dragrats that act homeless even though they're spoiled rich kids. But if you want to move to a town just to focus on some of its residents, have fun. Pretty sure I could find some huge douchesnozzles in the Dallas area as well. Guess its definitely for a younger crowd but I love Austin. But I'm a newb here so you probably shouldn't listen to me.

[gip99gt]

Great place to kick it in, never lived there...

[hotrod66stang]

Cliff's Notes:
Austin is a great city being overrun by Californians and mexicans, but still has a great vibe and tons of stuff to do including outdoors, night life, cultural, the arts, etc. If you can't handle the heat, mexicans, or roads that haven't caught up to the 15-year population boom, don't move there.

Fort Worth is a fairly close second, but lacks the vibe, it's very manufactured (trying to be Austin). It would be a pretty good choice if you don't decide on Austin.





I grew up in Austin, and have also lived in FW for over 5 years now. I have family and friends that have lived in every other major city in Texas, other than El Paso, but who gives a shit about them?

Austin is the best city in Texas, followed by Fort Worth, then it's a toss-up between Dallas and San Antonio depending on what you want in a city and whether you'd rather live around pretentious, white 30k-aires and black people in a semi-dirty city, or mexicans in a dirty city. Houston is dead last, no questions asked. Yes, there are nice cities around Houston, but that's not what we're talking about.

With that being said:
Austin has gone downhill with all the idiots from California moving there in the last 12-15 years due to the booming computer/semi-conductor/video game industries, and the better economy. Pair that with the ever-growing hispanic and illegal-immigrant population, accolades like "Best city in America for hispanics to live" from Latino magazine, plus the fact that people see so many celebrities living there...and you can see the kinds of people it attracts, and the people the city ends up pandering to.

The city is still great, and offers WAY more to do than #2 Fort Worth. There are more parks and things to do outdoors in and around Austin. There are MUCH better bars in Austin. There is no comparison in the music scene. The fine arts and museums are probably a tie. The food is definitely better in Austin, whereas FW keeps getting douchier with every restaurant from Tim Love and his counterparts. Fort Worth is trying to be Austin pretty hard, and will be better than Austin someday soon, but things like that will only set it back.

Austin is hardly a "dirty" city or full of rude people (there are pockets just like every other city, and there are the mexicans who are rude as fuck). Fort Worth has more than its fair share of douchenozzles for a city its size, and Dallas folks are the rudest people I've encountered in my life and my travels, outside of NYC. There are way more "pretentious fucks" per capita in north Texas than central Texas, guaranteed. Austinites are laid-back people, the pretentious ones are either new to town, or want people to stop moving there and ruining the city. The people that make Austin more and more intolerable are the mexicans. Way too many illegals concentrated down there. The legal ones aren't much better. HEB is a great grocery store with great prices, but stepping foot in there pisses me off. And the pseudo-socially-conscious people are mainly the college-aged people, which is right on with every other city. TCU is full of them, TCC, UNT, etc. That just comes with the territory of young people, especially collegians (who generally lean left), and especially these days. It's so easy to be socially conscious and be part of something from your bedroom through twitter and facebook I have met tons of people from UNT, and most fit this description...

A case could be made as #2(a) for parts of the metroplex, but everything after that is a distant #3.

[Slowhand]

Cliff's Notes:
Austin is a great city being overrun by Californians and mexicans, but still has a great vibe and tons of stuff to do including outdoors, night life, cultural, the arts, etc. If you can't handle the heat, mexicans, or roads that haven't caught up to the 15-year population boom, don't move there.

Pretty fucking accurate.

[VaderTT]

Interesting, Jody. I always figured SF would be a lot like Austin. Fun place to visit or live for a year or two, but that it would get old after that. Sure is a beautiful damn city though. That's crazy as shit about the Manhattan vs housing costs. Had no idea it was that bad. Aren't you trying to move back?

Eric, my parents bought a house in the north bay area in 95. Granted it was a short sale, they paid in the high 200k area. When they moved back to Canada in 05, they had sold their Clayton ca house for 1.3. Fucking crazy, but that was their out of middle class kinda poverty.

I'm mad that i can't afford to live there and i make pretty good money (not by dfwm standards, lol).

[Taylor]

Cliff's Notes:
Austin is a great city being overrun by Californians and mexicans, but still has a great vibe and tons of stuff to do including outdoors, night life, cultural, the arts, etc. If you can't handle the heat, mexicans, or roads that haven't caught up to the 15-year population boom, don't move there.

Fort Worth is a fairly close second, but lacks the vibe, it's very manufactured (trying to be Austin). It would be a pretty good choice if you don't decide on Austin.





I grew up in Austin, and have also lived in FW for over 5 years now. I have family and friends that have lived in every other major city in Texas, other than El Paso, but who gives a shit about them?

Austin is the best city in Texas, followed by Fort Worth, then it's a toss-up between Dallas and San Antonio depending on what you want in a city and whether you'd rather live around pretentious, white 30k-aires and black people in a semi-dirty city, or mexicans in a dirty city. Houston is dead last, no questions asked. Yes, there are nice cities around Houston, but that's not what we're talking about.

With that being said:
Austin has gone downhill with all the idiots from California moving there in the last 12-15 years due to the booming computer/semi-conductor/video game industries, and the better economy. Pair that with the ever-growing hispanic and illegal-immigrant population, accolades like "Best city in America for hispanics to live" from Latino magazine, plus the fact that people see so many celebrities living there...and you can see the kinds of people it attracts, and the people the city ends up pandering to.

The city is still great, and offers WAY more to do than #2 Fort Worth. There are more parks and things to do outdoors in and around Austin. There are MUCH better bars in Austin. There is no comparison in the music scene. The fine arts and museums are probably a tie. The food is definitely better in Austin, whereas FW keeps getting douchier with every restaurant from Tim Love and his counterparts. Fort Worth is trying to be Austin pretty hard, and will be better than Austin someday soon, but things like that will only set it back.

Austin is hardly a "dirty" city or full of rude people (there are pockets just like every other city, and there are the mexicans who are rude as fuck). Fort Worth has more than its fair share of douchenozzles for a city its size, and Dallas folks are the rudest people I've encountered in my life and my travels, outside of NYC. There are way more "pretentious fucks" per capita in north Texas than central Texas, guaranteed. Austinites are laid-back people, the pretentious ones are either new to town, or want people to stop moving there and ruining the city. The people that make Austin more and more intolerable are the mexicans. Way too many illegals concentrated down there. The legal ones aren't much better. HEB is a great grocery store with great prices, but stepping foot in there pisses me off. And the pseudo-socially-conscious people are mainly the college-aged people, which is right on with every other city. TCU is full of them, TCC, UNT, etc. That just comes with the territory of young people, especially collegians (who generally lean left), and especially these days. It's so easy to be socially conscious and be part of something from your bedroom through twitter and facebook I have met tons of people from UNT, and most fit this description...

A case could be made as #2(a) for parts of the metroplex, but everything after that is a distant #3.

You need to mention "the Mexicans" more.

fucking racist.

[sosoe]

Cliff's Notes:
Austin is a great city being overrun by Californians and mexicans, but still has a great vibe and tons of stuff to do including outdoors, night life, cultural, the arts, etc. If you can't handle the heat, mexicans, or roads that haven't caught up to the 15-year population boom, don't move there.

Fort Worth is a fairly close second, but lacks the vibe, it's very manufactured (trying to be Austin). It would be a pretty good choice if you don't decide on Austin.





I grew up in Austin, and have also lived in FW for over 5 years now. I have family and friends that have lived in every other major city in Texas, other than El Paso, but who gives a shit about them?

Austin is the best city in Texas, followed by Fort Worth, then it's a toss-up between Dallas and San Antonio depending on what you want in a city and whether you'd rather live around pretentious, white 30k-aires and black people in a semi-dirty city, or mexicans in a dirty city. Houston is dead last, no questions asked. Yes, there are nice cities around Houston, but that's not what we're talking about.

With that being said:
Austin has gone downhill with all the idiots from California moving there in the last 12-15 years due to the booming computer/semi-conductor/video game industries, and the better economy. Pair that with the ever-growing hispanic and illegal-immigrant population, accolades like "Best city in America for hispanics to live" from Latino magazine, plus the fact that people see so many celebrities living there...and you can see the kinds of people it attracts, and the people the city ends up pandering to.

The city is still great, and offers WAY more to do than #2 Fort Worth. There are more parks and things to do outdoors in and around Austin. There are MUCH better bars in Austin. There is no comparison in the music scene. The fine arts and museums are probably a tie. The food is definitely better in Austin, whereas FW keeps getting douchier with every restaurant from Tim Love and his counterparts. Fort Worth is trying to be Austin pretty hard, and will be better than Austin someday soon, but things like that will only set it back.

Austin is hardly a "dirty" city or full of rude people (there are pockets just like every other city, and there are the mexicans who are rude as fuck). Fort Worth has more than its fair share of douchenozzles for a city its size, and Dallas folks are the rudest people I've encountered in my life and my travels, outside of NYC. There are way more "pretentious fucks" per capita in north Texas than central Texas, guaranteed. Austinites are laid-back people, the pretentious ones are either new to town, or want people to stop moving there and ruining the city. The people that make Austin more and more intolerable are the mexicans. Way too many illegals concentrated down there. The legal ones aren't much better. HEB is a great grocery store with great prices, but stepping foot in there pisses me off. And the pseudo-socially-conscious people are mainly the college-aged people, which is right on with every other city. TCU is full of them, TCC, UNT, etc. That just comes with the territory of young people, especially collegians (who generally lean left), and especially these days. It's so easy to be socially conscious and be part of something from your bedroom through twitter and facebook I have met tons of people from UNT, and most fit this description...

A case could be made as #2(a) for parts of the metroplex, but everything after that is a distant #3.

[grove rat]

hahaha, i'm thinking jose or juan got one of his perfect white nieces preggo and now he fucking hates them!

[sosoe]

hahaha, i'm thinking jose or juan got one of his perfect white nieces preggo and now he fucking hates them!

Lmao. Doubt so. ..
But, if true, and my name was Juan or Jose he would have turned down my offers on the Carpul's. Lol.
But, Bryan is a cool fella.

[hotrod66stang]

You need to mention "the Mexicans" more.

fucking racist.

Ok, what else would you like to know about them? And no, I'm not a racist, but nice white text. Try living there and then tell me about it. I like how you didn't mention anyone else I pointed out, such as "black people," "Californians," people from Dallas or NYC, or "college students/collegians." I mentioned/referred to Californians 3 times, collegians 4 times. Nothing on those?

Please go feign your disdain somewhere else, tool.

sosoe, you know we're cool. Don't shoot me at the range.

[hotrod66stang]

hahaha, i'm thinking jose or juan got one of his perfect white nieces preggo and now he fucking hates them!

Nah, if I lived in a backwards hillbilly town in Texas, I'd be saying the same thing about the white people.

Oh, and LOL at the tag "beaners ruin everything." ----> "That's why we can't have nice things!"

[sosoe]

sosoe, you know we're cool. Don't shoot me at the range.

yeah, were cool. it doesn't bother me one bit, you know it. I use more racial words/slurs than a white man towards my own race and of course, you know the other race.

[hotrod66stang]

yeah, were cool. it doesn't bother me one bit, you know it. I use more racial words/slurs than a white man towards my own race and of course, you know the other race.

Ok, and just for Taylor, I can't stand most of the pseudo-intellectual, wanna-be hippies that Matt mentioned, most of whom are white. Nor can I stand how lax Austin has gotten on the homeless, most of whom are white, along with the sorry bastards who stand out and panhandle even when you can tell they're not freaking homeless. Also mostly whiteys!

[VaderTT]

There are shitty dumb Fucks of every race.



Ps. B is mah en eye gee gee a!

[hotrod66stang]

There are shitty dumb Fucks of every race.



Ps. B is mah en eye gee gee a!

Absolutely, we had this conversation a few Saturdays ago. The feeling is mutual, even if you're a canuck!