Best area of Austin for conservative people? (Round Rock: fit in, good schools)
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Color me rainbows and farts, but no one bothers to ask what your stance is politically or spiritually. Therefore, does it really matter if you live in a liberal neighborhood? What do you expect to see -- open necking, and all matters of debauchery? I don't mean this as an attack, but you should feel free to live anywhere that fits within your budget. I'm sure I live next to many conservative people and it matters naught.
Please don't get hung up on "liberal" and "conservative" as I don't believe such neighborhoods exist. austin is a mixed bag.
You have several posts under your belt at this point. You know how the Austin Forum works. Could you stop being vague and tell us exactly what you are looking for? By just going "oh, conservative" "I mean conservative for religion" you are only going to start a flame war.
You intimated yourself that you understood this could cause a fight in your OP. Rather than have us guessing and then starting a huge fight, can you just be direct? Or are you only looking to start a fight? Beggining a post with "I know you might not like this..." and then being purposely vague really makes me wonder.
Did you attempt to search for the answer to your question in previous threads? Did you bother to click the hyper link to previous threads that the previous poster kindly gave to you?
I mean.... is this really such a big deal? Who cares? I'm just saying.... sounds like you're worked up a little.
It depends on what you really are looking for - an area in which a very high percent of the residents go to a church, an area in which a high percent of people go to your denomination, an area where there are a low-percent active 'dissidents' to your denomination?
As stated above (and many other places) no one will really care that you go to church or where, generally speaking. If you find it uncomfortable to be living in an area where people do not go to church, or are gay, or live without being married, or are Hindu or Muslim or Jewish, you may have a more difficult time and I am not sure where that would be .
Any area that is outside about a 2-3 mile radius of downtown Austin. All of the Austin suburbs are as conservative as you can get and a good chunk of north and northwest Austin proper as well. Why would anyone want to move from Dallas to Austin?? Shouldn't it be the other way around??
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Originally Posted by cckhek
I know some of you will not like the fact I am asking this question, but I would like to get your opinions on which part of Austin tends to be on the conservative side. I know Austin proper isn't as it is known to be liberal. We now live in Dallas but will be moving to Austin next year so would like to get a heads up on which part of town may be the best to begin looking at for housing.
I mean.... is this really such a big deal? Who cares? I'm just saying.... sounds like you're worked up a little.
Not worked up at all.
I am slightly irritated that posters start thread after thread saying "I am Moving to austin, where should i live?" and give absolutely NO personal information about themselves so that we can actually answer their question.
They don't explain their wants, their needs, their budgets, whether or not they are employed etc etc etc. And they do it all the time. It's just a brain dead move. Anyone that has posted on any internet forum before, or actually existed in reality before, should know that they are completely anonymous on the internet. We don't know them from adam, and they should know better.
That's like going to your doctor's office and going "I don't feel well" and then REFUSING to answer any of the doctor's questions like "where does it hurt, what exactly is wrong, is it your feet? your head? your stomach?" It just seems like trolling to me.
Double plus when they post something political or religious, since those usually are controversial topics.
Triple plus when the OP's question has already been answered, erupted into flame wars and been trolled to death many times before on the austin forum. The OP could have easily found her answer by doing a simple search of the forums. Or by actually clicking the link that other posters provided her. The OP is not a first time poster. She has been on City-data for over a year.
So to answer your question of "who cares?". I care. *shrug*
What do you mean by religiously conservative? Are you Orthodox Jewish? Mormon? Southern Baptists? I know very conservative religious people who live all over Austin. What is it that you don't want to see? That might help to know.
I find much of this hypocrisy. Those that say - "oh, no bigots here, just live, let live, all stripes, etc." are the exact same people that are not tolerant of a conservative Christian or Republican. I have experienced this first hand. Some of my best friends are REAL liberals, and they stand by those principles in every direction, not selectively. I also know many "selective" liberals, who are all for diversity of thought, politics, etc. as long as it fits THEIR definitions of what that should look like... rural blue collar Christian conservatives arent a diverse group, they are just wrong, for instance
Sorry, I digress. Back to topic at hand, if you are looking to be around others with similar beliefs, values, etc. I think that there is nothing wrong with that. I agree that you need to be more specific though. A particular religion? Christianity? Spirituality?
I find much of this hypocrisy. Those that say - "oh, no bigots here, just live, let live, all stripes, etc." are the exact same people that are not tolerant of a conservative Christian or Republican. I have experienced this first hand. Some of my best friends are REAL liberals, and they stand by those principles in every direction, not selectively. I also know many "selective" liberals, who are all for diversity of thought, politics, etc. as long as it fits THEIR definitions of what that should look like... rural blue collar Christian conservatives arent a diverse group, they are just wrong, for instance
Sorry, I digress. Back to topic at hand, if you are looking to be around others with similar beliefs, values, etc. I think that there is nothing wrong with that. I agree that you need to be more specific though. A particular religion? Christianity? Spirituality?
Aren't you taking a bit of a leap there? First off, no one is intolerant of the OP. Critical of her vagueness maybe, but no one has attacked her religion. How could we? We don't even know what it is.
2nd. Who says she is a conservative christian or even a republican. You are really reading into things here.
For the most part (with some obvious exceptions - see above - but those are outliers and every place has them), people in Austin are tolerant of people of all persuasions (with the possible exception, as noted elsewhere above, of bigots of whatever persuasion - and we should all know that bigotry doesn't play favorites, most anyone who is naturally inclined towards bigotry can find someone or something to be bigoted against).
If you are uncomfortable living in an area surrounded by people of many different kinds, be it religious or political or otherwise, who don't know and don't care what your particular persuasion is, all they care about is are you a good neighbor, or if your idea of conservative (or liberal, for that matter) is to prosyletize endlessly, you may be uncomfortable here. Chances are that in any given neighborhood your neighbors will be of varying religions, varying political stances, and varying sexual orientations, and all get along famously (or if they don't, it will be for reasons that don't have to do with those particular things and more to do with who plays their music too loud or let's their dog poop in someone else's lawn or things of that nature).
If, on the other hand, all you're looking for is a nice place to live where people won't give you the kind of grief that homeinatx spouts above, and you don't personally care about the beliefs of your neighbors as long as they don't foist them on you and vice versa, you'll do fine.
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