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View Poll Results: What city in Texas has the best culture/performing arts?
Dallas 7 26.92%
Fort Worth 2 7.69%
Austin 1 3.85%
Other-please comment below 16 61.54%
Voters: 26. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 12-18-2009, 11:54 AM
 
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I'm hoping to move to Texas from NYC. Fort Worth, Dallas and Austin are my preferred cities, but wondering if there any cities you can recommend. I'd love to have:
1. Weather above 30 degrees average in January
2. Decent performing arts/culture scene
3. good standard of living. (nice apartment or condo for around 600-750 a month rent, preferably in a "downtown"/ hip area)
There are other preferences, but those are my top 3. Coming from NYC, I don't want to have too much culture shock of having nothing to do on Friday night. I hear Austin is great for culture. Any other suggestions?
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Old 12-18-2009, 12:47 PM
 
Location: In a Galaxy far, far away called Germany
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I'm hoping to move to Texas from NYC. Fort Worth, Dallas and Austin are my preferred cities, but wondering if there any cities you can recommend. I'd love to have:
1. Weather above 30 degrees average in January
2. Decent performing arts/culture scene
3. good standard of living. (nice apartment or condo for around 600-750 a month rent, preferably in a "downtown"/ hip area)
There are other preferences, but those are my top 3. Coming from NYC, I don't want to have too much culture shock of having nothing to do on Friday night. I hear Austin is great for culture. Any other suggestions?
My brother is a very successful artist in San Antonio and SA is really come on strong in both film, music, and the performing arts in the past decade. You can't beat the weather either (if you like warming, sub-tropical weather).
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Old 12-18-2009, 01:18 PM
 
Location: Underneath the Pecan Tree
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Originally Posted by JGrathwol View Post
I'm hoping to move to Texas from NYC. Fort Worth, Dallas and Austin are my preferred cities, but wondering if there any cities you can recommend. I'd love to have:
1. Weather above 30 degrees average in January
2. Decent performing arts/culture scene
3. good standard of living. (nice apartment or condo for around 600-750 a month rent, preferably in a "downtown"/ hip area)
There are other preferences, but those are my top 3. Coming from NYC, I don't want to have too much culture shock of having nothing to do on Friday night. I hear Austin is great for culture. Any other suggestions?

Dallas and Houston are the closets you'll get to NYC culture; not Austin. Austin's a overgrown college town, but the best choice when it comes to film and music.

Houston has the Museum and Theater Districts which offers a host of world-class performances and arts. Dallas is currently finishing up the one of the largest Arts district in the country. Both are very diverse with Houston offering a bit more diversity. Both offer world-classes restaurant with a wide variety of different cuisines. Upscale shopping in both with Dallas being the Fashion Capital of Texas.

Out of your choices; I'd go with Dallas.
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Old 12-18-2009, 02:17 PM
 
Location: Hutto, Tx
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Houston or Dallas. Austin doesn't have anything on scale with those cities or with NY. I say Houston first/Dallas 2nd, but they would almost be a match really.
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Old 12-18-2009, 02:22 PM
 
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Dallas - you seem like a good candidate for parts of East Dallas, which is near downtown, has a high artsy and entrepreneural component with a lot of well-traveled people who live fairly inexpensively.
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Old 12-18-2009, 02:53 PM
 
Location: Pasadena
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The answer to the poll question is Houston, but considering that its not even on your poll reveals that you would end up choosing Dallas instead since you prefer it out of the 2. No biggie.

But Houston definitely qualifies based on your criteria, but wait-You wanted decent performing arts/cultural scene. Houston's scene is better than decent. So i guess it doesnt qualify....
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Old 12-18-2009, 04:06 PM
 
Location: The land of sugar... previously Houston and Austin
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Other: Houston. 2nd largest theater district in the country (after NYC's) and one of the largest museum districts with almost 20 great museums within walking distance from one another. One of a handful of US cities with permanent year-round theater, ballet, symphony and opera. Ranks 3rd in the US in number of working artists, and in fine arts museum space.

Houston facts (http://www.houstonpavilions.com/office_facts.php - broken link)

You mention Austin, but truth is it has absolutely nothing on Houston outside of the music/film scene. It's done a great job marketing and hyping itself, which is probably why you "heard" what you heard.

Coming from NYC, Fort Worth and Austin would probably be the most culture shock, while Houston and Dallas would be the least (but they're all still Texas, keep in mind.)
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Old 12-18-2009, 08:14 PM
 
Location: Upper East Side of Texas
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HOUSTON by far has the best cultural/performing arts scene. Its the second largest theatre district in the country after NYC. If its cultural diversity you're after, no other city in Texas or the South for that matter can beat Houston, though Dallas is not far behind, it still can't match Houston's sheer level of different races & ethnicities.

Just think of it this way...Dallas is Texas...Houston is the world.

January weather in Houston is also 5-10 degrees on average warmer than Dallas. So if its 32 degrees in Dallas, its gonna be about 42 degrees in Houston.
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Old 12-19-2009, 01:05 AM
 
Location: Abilene/Buffalo Gap, Texas ... Moving to Cheyenne/Elk City, Oklahoma
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Excellent input so far ... all I can add is this:

1) All of those cities are going to have an above 30 degree average in any month.

2) You'll be hard-pressed to find ANY apartment or condo for around 600-750 a month rent in a downtown/ hip area.


I have lived in all areas including Houston ... grew up in DFW ... and I am fondest of the Austin area to LIVE, but love to visit the rest.

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Old 12-19-2009, 01:36 AM
 
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Houston - hands down. Best theatre, dance and arts scene in the State. Fort Worth has the best museum in Texas - the Kimball, but museum is the operative word. No living arts scene. Dallas has some great cultural amenities too but geared more towards the people buying culture than making it. Austin is prettier and best for film and music - as others have noted, but it remains a kinda sleepy do it yourself kinda place. Houston also has far superior restaurants (in terms of both quality and variety) to any other city in TX, though in terms of local cuisine, San Antonio has better Tex Mex and the Austin area has better BBQ. In terms of high culture, no TX city can compare to NYC, Chicago, SF, heck even Boston . . .
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