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hey everyone this is my first post and wont be my last about this subject. what are the top 10 cities that have the best music scenes around the country????? here are my requirements
-must have good music scene (duh)
-must have avaliable jobs
-must be easy to find a roommate(s)
-must have venues to play at
Austin is over-hyped.
The suburbs are sprawling and with such a strong anti-tax atmosphere here, we're already seeing the system maxed out. Unless you have a stellar job or lots of money, you'll be in the less than ideal, not very musical whitebread suburbs, which tend to run very TeaParty-ish and Ghetto (in my experience, much like most of Texas) and definitely not musical or 'weird' in my opinion. The suburbs that is. Downtown is cool. The same could probably be said for many cities, and obviously, it depends where you're coming from...it's all relative.
Here's a book you may want to pick up at yr local library:
P.S. Austin is way cheaper than PDX, SEA, etc.
Having lived in all three. But,you may get what you pay for.
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