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It just comes down to what's most important. Montrose and Oak Lawn in Dallas almost feel like small towns in a big city, and both offer superior nightlife. If you find a job close, you will never have to get on the busy highways. I would pick Dallas or Houston over Austin but life is faster paced in both compared to Austin. However, traffic is way worse in Austin. Personally, I think adjusting to an urban environment is better than being bored.
Austin caters to nightlife and the party culture a lot more so than Houston. Yes, Houston is way larger and offers more variety but where Houston fails is quality. For a city her size, Houston's nightlife has been a real disappointment in just about every area I tried. I'll keep trying, but I shouldn't have to look this hard is more my point. While Austin isn't my scene, it sounds like it's his, so I think he'll get a better time out of it.
Haven't partied in Dallas but I heard good things.
Yeah Austin is pretty White & can be stuck up with those yuppies moving in from Cali.
Its still not that diverse yet.
And I don't understand what it is with everyone trying to characterize Austin as bleach white. Whites don't even break the 50% mark in Austin. Plus, this is not the criteria that was given by the OP. By the OP's criteria, Austin wins hands down.
And I don't understand what it is with everyone trying to characterize Austin as bleach white. Whites don't even break the 50% mark in Austin. Plus, this is not the criteria that was given by the OP. By the OP's criteria, Austin wins hands down.
It's mostly the music scene that does it. All that indy rock I'd like Austin if there were some bars that played some stuff I could actually get into. The problem I've been having with Houston lately is that a lot of the better places are shutting down or have few people inside. Too work driven. I think Dallas is a happy medium in that regard but I gotta explore it.
And I don't understand what it is with everyone trying to characterize Austin as bleach white. Whites don't even break the 50% mark in Austin. Plus, this is not the criteria that was given by the OP. By the OP's criteria, Austin wins hands down.
68.3% of Austin is White.
Decent Hispanic & Asian numbers, poor Black numbers. A Black in Austin would feel out of their element.
Decent Hispanic & Asian numbers, poor Black numbers. A Black in Austin would feel out of their element.
That number includes Hispanic-Whites. The Non-Hispanic Whites number is 48.7%. Way to once again pushing misleading numbers even when you know its not the entire picture.
Not to mention Austin has the highest share of Asians in the entire southern United States.
And Austin has the highest share of Asians in the southern United States.
Not really. That would be Washington for those that think we're in the South & Houston for those that see Washington as Northeast. If you want to get technical with city proper only, then Sugar Land (a suburb of Houston) kills everyone else in the South for Asians as a percent of population in the Southern United States.
I've lived in Austin, after my internship is up in Washington next month I'll be back in Austin for my final semester, and then back to Washington permanently. There are Asians in Austin but it's concentrated near UT & Downtown and surrounding enclaves off Riverside or down Guadalupe. Houston crushes Austin all around for ethnic everything. Chinatown in Austin is a massive joke for us Asians, it's one strip mall complex with 2 grocery stores and like 7 restaurants. Nothing on the 2 Chinatowns, 1 Little Saigon, 1 Little India, 1 Persian Corridor, 1 Arab enclave, 1 Koreatown, & scattered but numerous Mexican, Guatemalen, Costa Rican, El Salvadoran, Colombian, Venezuelan areas in Houston.
Asian Population as a comparator:
Austin-Round Rock-Marble Falls, TX: 101,255 (5.5%)
Houston-Baytown-Huntsville, TX: 446,209 (7.2%)
Another thing, Austin's Non-Hispanic Caucasian population is 76% (without Hispanic Whites) & 78% Hispanic White. Compared to 65% & 67% for Houston.
Source: United States Government, Census Bureau
Last edited by Trafalgar Law; 11-23-2012 at 01:46 AM..
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