31 Year Old Single Hispanic Female Considering Austin (neighborhood, live)

[Ivory Lee Spurlock]

Originally Posted by riaelise

My husband identifies readily as Hispanic and he's a native Texan.

In the northeast it's different, many people identify themselves by their nationality or Latino/a rather than the term "Hispanic" (Puerto Rican, Dominican, etc.)

Do you mean that in the NE, most people of Puerto Rican or Dominican descent but are born and raised in the United States, are cool with being identified as a Dominican or Puerto Rican rather than an American?

Around here, it seems like Hispanic is a safe and polite term to use when you're not sure what term to use and you don't want to offend anybody. My 40 plus years in Texas, I have run across many Native Texans of Mexican descent who identify as Texican or Tejano.

[Austinite101]

A single 31 year old woman should feel pretty comfortable in Austin provided they don't have an awful commute to work. Austin is probably one of the best (if not the best) cities in Texas for young people to meet other young people. Depending on where you choose to live, you should notice a notable increase in how many Hispanics you meet on a given day. As a Mexican-American myself, I feel no isolation from my culture and can easily find people to brush up on my Spanish if I choose.

As far as any racism, I have not experienced blatant racism with the exception of the time I made the mistake of visiting a Cabela's in Buda (south of Austin). City-proper tends to be more subtle racism if you do experience it, although this tends to come from older whites.

[madrone2k]

Well, as an older white guy, I feel compelled to apologize for the rest of my class ;-)

My best friend of 35 years is a guy from Mexico who by nature has as very strong sense of self. It is interesting, he says he has never felt (let himself feel) discriminated against. He is like a super-hero in that regard, he repels bullets, etc. And I believe him.

This is just a comment, but it is interesting. He has cousins from his family in California who grew up here since the Mexican Revolution. They were offended that my friend (their cousin) didn't feel that he didn't feel that he had been discriminated against also. So, while I don't deny the honesty of people's feelings, it is interesting to speculate on how people should act on actual occurrences in their lives.

[riaelise]

Originally Posted by Ivory Lee Spurlock

Do you mean that in the NE, most people of Puerto Rican or Dominican descent but are born and raised in the United States, are cool with being identified as a Dominican or Puerto Rican rather than an American?

Around here, it seems like Hispanic is a safe and polite term to use when you're not sure what term to use and you don't want to offend anybody. My 40 plus years in Texas, I have run across many Native Texans of Mexican descent who identify as Texican or Tejano.

Well the more accurate term would be "Dominican-American" but for most, it's easier to just say "Dominican". Even if you were born in America, a person can still be tribal and have ethnic pride. Puerto Ricans are actually Americans whether they were born on the island or not But culturally identifying as Puerto Rican is important, so they identify as "Puerto Rican" or "Boricuan" or in the streets "PR". In the northeast, it's common for people to self identify ethnically vs. an umbrella term like "Hispanic".

[Snowpacked]

History lesson for all. Discrimination in history is like milk and cereal. It would be hard to find a race, ethnic group whatever you want to call them, that has not been discriminated against.

[grad_student200]

Originally Posted by DCtoTejas

I don't know about that. Some years they are fairly nice, others are predominately chilly and grey. They are usually schizophrenic day to day. It snowed/iced twice last year here.

I try to chime in on these threads because the winters here are not in any way comparable to south Florida winters, which are the ones that people living in the north east and mid-Atlantic typically think of when they think of winters in the far south.

I have lived in Denver, Indiana, South FL, and North FL (the panhandle). Austin is very mild in the winter. It's not like Denver where you can see blizzards. A few times it gets cold with minor snow flurries, but it's not that big of a deal. Albuquerque gets far more snow in the winter which is mild compared to Denver. Indiana snow storms are fierce and drive people to Texas all the time. Austin has mild winters relative to the north. South FL doesn't really have a winter except about once every five years when the iguanas freeze and fall of the trees - lol.

Austin is awesome. I recommend it. Sorry to hear about your divorce, but you sound smart and frugal. Just don't rush into another bad marriage like this person did in San Antonio. The divorce rate is 66% for 2nd marriages. But Austin can be a great place to regain your life focus after divorce and enhance career growth. The job market was booming when I was there.
https://www.cosmopolitan.com/lifesty...nsive-wedding/

[cBach]

Originally Posted by grad_student200

I have lived in Denver, Indiana, South FL, and North FL (the panhandle). Austin is very mild in the winter. It's not like Denver where you can see blizzards. A few times it gets cold with minor snow flurries, but it's not that big of a deal. Albuquerque gets far more snow in the winter which is mild compared to Denver. Indiana snow storms are fierce and drive people to Texas all the time. Austin has mild winters relative to the north. South FL doesn't really have a winter except about once every five years when the iguanas freeze and fall of the trees - lol.

Austin is awesome. I recommend it. Sorry to hear about your divorce, but you sound smart and frugal. Just don't rush into another bad marriage like this person did in San Antonio. The divorce rate is 66% for 2nd marriages. But Austin can be a great place to regain your life focus after divorce and enhance career growth. The job market was booming when I was there.
https://www.cosmopolitan.com/lifesty...nsive-wedding/

Spending $110k on a wedding is foolish in every regard. "A fool and his money are soon parted..."

[Trainwreck20]

Originally Posted by cBach

Spending $110k on a wedding is foolish in every regard. "A fool and his money are soon parted..."

Just read the first paragraph, but at least the parents paid for it, not the couple .

[cBach]

Originally Posted by Trainwreck20

Just read the first paragraph, but at least the parents paid for it, not the couple .

The author probably doesn't realize her second marriage will not be paid by her family. They'll be like "why don't you go down to the county courthouse." lol

[AnotherEastCoaster]

Not just Dominicans and Puerto Ricans. In Texas most Hispanics I meet are Mexican but up North you have all kinds of Hispanics. When people ask where I'm from, I say I was born in the USA but my parents came from Central America.. If a Hispanic person asks, I'll just say Central American. If I'm in another Hispanic country, I'll say I'm American and say where my parents are from. In Canada or non Hispanic countries, I'll just say I'm American

It doesn't matter to me if somebody calls me Central American or Hispanic. I don't feel the need to say I'm American if you're asking me as we stand IN America and can hear me speak perfect English with a northeast accent. The only thing that annoys me is when people refer to all Hispanics as MEXICAN.

Originally Posted by Ivory Lee Spurlock

Do you mean that in the NE, most people of Puerto Rican or Dominican descent but are born and raised in the United States, are cool with being identified as a Dominican or Puerto Rican rather than an American?

Around here, it seems like Hispanic is a safe and polite term to use when you're not sure what term to use and you don't want to offend anybody. My 40 plus years in Texas, I have run across many Native Texans of Mexican descent who identify as Texican or Tejano.