Austin v Houston for nursing student (Dallas, San Antonio: theater, school, living in)

[radiolibre99]

Originally Posted by hound 109

I don't see them on here. & I don't see them around town.

I think if you keep posting about this so called "tude"....then you & others start to believe it.

note - if you're referring to the token idiot hipster found downtown on Saturday nights...he's just like the token Htown hipster (or BigD hipster) found downtown on Sat. nights. None of these have anything to do with 95% of City Data posters who are trying to earn a living & find their kid a decent school.

I've read immature editorials in the Daily Texan bashing Houston to no end for not being cool enough as Austin. It's there and its there in strides.

[easttosouth2015]

Originally Posted by hound 109

Where do you "read" about these people? & how long has your friend lived in Austin?

It's been my observation that the only Austinites who bash other Texas cities are newbies who came here in the past 10 years (usually from a blue state). Most Austinites in my peer group love SA & Ft.Worth & very much like Dallas & Houston. Is your Austinite friend a newbie socialist?

That said, Houston is a bigger city with more opportunity (especially in the medical field). Plus, there's more there there, & it probably has a lower cost of living in most of it's suburban areas. But both are very good cities with many pros & a few cons.

He's actually an Austin native, that's the crazy part. I guess his love for his city is very strong-- going through the forums I've read quite a few responses from Austinites stereotyping and degrading Houston and Dallas when asked to compare much like he does.

[hound 109]

Originally Posted by radiolibre99

I've read immature editorials in the Daily Texan bashing Houston to no end for not being cool enough as Austin. It's there and its there in strides.

Snotty nosed college kids bash pizza joints on yelp, football teams all over the internet & cities and states because it's hip. Heck...they even think that fashion & indy music matters . But they don't earn a living & their opinions really aren't relevant to an employed person considering a job transfer to either city.

I didn't realize that the Austintude rap was because of what some lonely college freshman was typing in his dorm room in Jester.

[Scientific]

I remember reading this last year. Came to my mind reading this thread.

BBC News - 10 reasons why so many people are moving to Texas

Restaurant manager Christopher Hislop, 33, moved in 2007 from Los Angeles to Austin, where he met his wife and they now have a nine-month-old boy.

"I came to Austin for a wedding and thought it was a really cool city and the people were nice - it was everything that LA wasn't but still had that hip vibe without pretension. The nightlife is great and there's an emphasis on getting out and about - they maintain trailways and nature.

"It's not Texas at all and that's what I liked about it. I don't know Texas very well, I grew up in Chicago, but Austin is not Texas because you think of 10-gallon hats and guys on horseback. It's a cliché but Austin isn't like that, it's hip and in the now. The rest of Texas is very conservative."

People like to perpetuate a myth that Austin is still the Austin it once was, says Joshua Long, author of Weird City: Sense of Place and Creative Resistance in Austin, Texas. So as it's become a big city, a movement has developed to "keep it cool, keep it weird and keep it environmentally friendly".

[radiolibre99]

There ya go. That whole "Austin isn't Texas" mentality is what irks people and perpetuates the belief in Austintude. I think some where I read that Austinites (probably transplants) were calling it Austin, CA. I couldn't roll my eyes any faster.

[Bobloblawslawblog]

Originally Posted by hound 109

Snotty nosed college kids bash pizza joints on yelp, football teams all over the internet & cities and states because it's hip. Heck...they even think that fashion & indy music matters . But they don't earn a living & their opinions really aren't relevant to an employed person considering a job transfer to either city.

I didn't realize that the Austintude rap was because of what some lonely college freshman was typing in his dorm room in Jester.

Oh, the "rest-of-Texas"-bashing thing is very real in Austin. I lived in Austin for several years and heard it constantly, so please. As radiolibre pointed out, it's usually people from the suburbs of Houston and Dallas who never left their safe little suburban zones to explore what their home-cities had to offer. Just packed up, went to UT, then stayed in Austin... and now everywhere else in Texas "sucks". Heard that crap all the time while living there, and I see it in these forums from time to time as well. Most Austin natives are not like this. It's almost always the transplants... whether from in-state or out of state, but usually in-state.

Personally, those types aside, I love Austin. It's a pretty city with a lot going for it. It's just a shame that pretentiousnous has gotten such a strong foothold there in the last 15-20 years.

[hound 109]

Originally Posted by radiolibre99

There ya go. That whole "Austin isn't Texas" mentality is what irks people and perpetuates the belief in Austintude. I think some where I read that Austinites (probably transplants) were calling it Austin, CA. I couldn't roll my eyes any faster.

You do realize that the guy was from Chicago, by way of LA. (not a Htown suburbanite) He said he doesn't "know" Texas, yet explains that Austin isn't "really Texas" (how would he know??). Claims that the rest of Texas is "conservative" (uh..city of Houston, city of Dallas & the Rio Grande Valley went Obama...& everyone in my neighborhood - which is in Austin - would never vote for a socialist).

& did you read the idiot's comment about everyone who lives outside of Austin wears big hats??? That article didn't pass the smell test because of that idiotic comment alone.

This whole "Austin is not like the rest of Texas" stuff was started (& perpetuated) by Blue State refugees who when talking to friends & family back home told them....."yeah...I'm moving to Texas, but it's Austin, not like the rest of Texas".

Granted, We've got our share of pretentious lame hipsters, just like Houston & Dallas does inside their Loops. But a nice lady who wants to be a nurse in either city can easily avoid these losers.

[sxrckr]

Originally Posted by radiolibre99

That whole "Austin isn't Texas" mentality is what irks people and perpetuates the belief in Austintude. I think some where I read that Austinites (probably transplants) were calling it Austin, CA. I couldn't roll my eyes any faster.

Originally Posted by Bobloblawslawblog

Oh, the "rest-of-Texas"-bashing thing is very real in Austin. I lived in Austin for several years and heard it constantly, so please. As radiolibre pointed out, it's usually people from the suburbs of Houston and Dallas who never left their safe little suburban zones to explore what their home-cities had to offer. Just packed up, went to UT, then stayed in Austin... and now everywhere else in Texas "sucks". Heard that crap all the time while living there, and I see it in these forums from time to time as well. Most Austin natives are not like this. It's almost always the transplants... whether from in-state or out of state, but usually in-state.

You both are correct. It's so annoying, embarrassing, insular. Gives us all a bad name. But I've noticed it's not just people from those suburbs of the 80s/90s, but out of state too.

Anyway, I've lived both places. For medical anything... Houston with no hesitation. Ignore the fool with Austintude, look the term up and it's nothing to be proud of. Houston is a much more sophisticated, cosmopolitan city with great amenities, yet still a down-to-earth vibe places like Dallas and L.A. lack.
Now, for tech/internet careers, it's Austin.

[Bobloblawslawblog]

Sorry to keep flogging a dead horse, but just to further accentuate my earlier sentiment... I remember when I was living in Austin in the mid-90's, I went to see that movie "Independence Day", when it was in the theaters. The theater was packed that day. There's a scene in that movie where the military decides to nuke Houston in an attempt to kill the aliens. As soon as the announcement was made that Houston was the chosen target of a nuclear strike, people literally stood up and cheered. Loudly. The whole room was applauding. Yes, I know. It's only some dumb Hollywood blockbuster movie, but that spoke volumes to me about many Austinites' opinion of Houston.

I seriously doubt if it had been reverse roles, and it was Austin getting nuked, that audiences in Houston would have done the same thing.

[radiolibre99]

The overly quirky, we're so eclectic attitude of certain Austinites does irk the hell outta Houstonians. I am very surprised Houstonians stay so cool about it though. It shows who had the real character.

I mean Austin is a blip on the radar compared to Houston. Houston is professional and cosmopolitan. The Austintude comes from wannabe techie transplant A type yuppie hipsters.