Are people really that nice there??? (Dallas, Austin: living, price, moving)

[CravenClan]

I keep reading ow nice everyone is there, so is it true??? We have visited other states, like, Colorado, Utah, Nebraska, and everyone seems nice. But we are from So. Cal, and niceness is a rarity.....

So for those of you that moved there from California, are the people really that nice? or are we just used to everyone not being nice?

Can't wait to see for ourselves, next week!!! Although visitng once and living there could be 2 different things....

any thoughts and opinions are GREATLY appreciated!!

[southwest1230]

Depends on what you mean by nice.....nice can connote a wishy-washy nothingness as well, which is the nice I believe you find on the west coast. A very cloying and superficial flavor, to my understanding. If you define nice as down-to-earth unpretentiousness, a letting down of the guard, an animated conversational tone,
a genuine soul-to-soul connection, then, yes indeed, Austin is "nice", though I would
use stronger and fuller connotations than "nice"......they would include the following:
-laid back
-sweet
-smiling
-earthy
-helpful
-genuinely interesting
-playful
-joyous

Hope that answers your question...enjoy the trip......

[atina33]

I live in the "Belly of the So Cal Beast" (mid-city Los Angeles) and while I acknowledge that this city has MAJOR problems (we will also be moving out in a few years), I must say that I do find people to be generally nice here. Not everyone of course but there are many examples of kindness here:

-many people passing by on the sidewalk DO smile and say good morning/good evening
-I dropped my wallet in the street a few years back and a guy up the street picked it up and returned it to my door
-people help stray animals
-my toddler son loves watching the garbage trucks pick up our bins. The drivers always honk and wave at him.
-I returned an item that I had found and the person was so grateful, he brought flowers when he came to pick it up from me.

I could go on and on. My point in replying is that I don't think it's accurate or fair to give the rest of the country the impression that we're a bunch of cranky, road raged, egomaniacs.

Thank you.

[achtungpv]

There are nice and horrible people everywhere. Austin has plenty of both.

[jwb123]

Generally, our experience has been that the people we have met have been genuinely nice and open and interested in friendships.

Much more so than the place we moved from.

[another_hot-day]

People here are very friendly.
I thought it was fake or they were up to something for the first year I lived here.
But it's for the most part genuine.

[love roses]

I'll chime in and say it's genuine

[twange]

People seem very friendly, even while they are pining to your face about how so many people are moving here from other places...almost bitterness mixed with disbelief and surprise. Then, after their minor soliloquy, they'll smile and say "well, welcome to Austin"

[car957]

We are nice because you are nice. If you act disrespectful or if your children wear there boxers outside of their pants and are gangbangers, well then, don't move here.

You asking tells me you are also friendly and want be my neighbor. Come on over to South Texas. We are nice, kind people who have a pretty good time because of all the things we have to do in Austin.

[tashina]

Originally Posted by CravenClan

I keep reading ow nice everyone is there, so is it true???

Compared to Temecula? Like night and day. Really. I am one of those talkative people that makes friends with the checkers in the grocery store, the receptionist at the doctor's office, etc. In Temecula, yuk. To be blunt: Bunch 'o soccer moms who were more interested in the size of our swimming pool than they were in us. I think they all had a chip on their shoulder from wishing they lived in San Diego. It translated to a false snootiness as if Temecula was some prize place to live and not just a place that San Diegans spilled over to after being priced out.

I'm not always the greatest cheerleader for Austin, but so far Austin and Dallas both are filled with extremely nice people compared with Temecula or the East Bay (near San Francisco).