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You are wrong. Austin has nothing when compared to a larger city like Houston. Austin has more in common with a regular town than an actual city.
I hate to break this to you, but reps don't mean diddley. Most people give them out because they agree with something you said others give them out because they are your buddies some give them out because they are on the same wave length as you .
Any way arty I hate to be so nit picking, but with over 9,000 posts and registered since 2006, I'd except you to have so much more.
BTW nobody said Austin was a world class city. I live in a world class city and have lived in several, but I'd still take Austin over a lot of sprawling sky scrappered cities like Houston or Atlanta.
Yeah, CA is crowded and expensive. I would pick a beach location in the Florida panhandle, but then be sure to ask yourself how much boredom you can handle? But it sure is very scenic.
I personally have a "hair stands on its ends" antipathy toward any college-town, way-cool place that everyone wants to move to:
Austin, Ann Arbor, Boulder, Eugene....
I dislike college towns intensely. Grow up .... and get out.
For the most part I agree, and anyway Eugene sucks, it's not just a college town. Corvallis is a college town -- i.e. without that college, there would really be no Corvallis. Sure, there'd be like 2,000 farmers there, but the population is about 50,000 and 25,000 of those go to OSU or work at OSU. The rest are mostly support staff. They may not think of themselves that way, but they obviously are -- why would there be so many restaurants near campus, if there was no campus at all? Why would there be bars downtown or around campus if there were no college? The population would dry up fast, no students, no business. Eugene is much bigger, four times as many people I think, my dad has a property in Eugene and it does very well too, so evidently there are enough families there for other reasons.
But a college town, on the plus side, has tons of hot girls and parties, and that's not a bad thing.
I've heard that Hawaii is a beautiful place to live in, it's just super expensive.
I've also heard numerous times that whites from the mainland can get a "cool" reception from the native Samoan stock - they even have a derisive name for a Caucasian - it is "howli." Having lived in places where Californians are not wanted makes me very attuned to that and I would rather not sign on the dotted line for a mortgage in those places.
I've also heard numerous times that whites from the mainland can get a "cool" reception from the native Samoan stock - they even have a derisive name for a Caucasian - it is "howli." Having lived in places where Californians are not wanted makes me very attuned to that and I would rather not sign on the dotted line for a mortgage in those places.
the folks are more civilized nowadays.........................
Well, jobs there are plentiful in certain fields, but I could never live in an Islamic country myself.
Me either, in fact, i love my country and would want to stay here, at least at first. I'm thinking about moving once every year or so and just living in many different countries. I want to start strictly USA though.
G Rizzle
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