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Old 07-23-2013, 07:54 AM
 
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Yes! Move to Austin. San Antonio is at capacity.
At capacity? If you are going to look at it that way, so is Austin.
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Old 07-23-2013, 07:37 PM
 
Location: North Austin
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IF you're Hispanic, you should move to SA - it's the Motherland.
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Old 07-23-2013, 07:52 PM
 
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IF you're Hispanic, you should move to SA - it's the Motherland.
Nice bigot comment!
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Old 07-23-2013, 08:05 PM
 
Location: North Austin
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I'm Hispanic.
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Old 07-23-2013, 08:45 PM
 
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IF you're Hispanic, you should move to SA - it's the Motherland.
No offense, but most of the SW USA is the "motherland". Seriously.
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Old 07-23-2013, 09:57 PM
 
Location: 'Bout a mile off Old Mill Road
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South Florida and Phoenix are better suited to someone in your situation than Austin and San Antonio.
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Old 07-27-2013, 07:24 PM
 
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Hi guys, Thanks for responding, for some reason I have been having issues logging in!
I have been to TX several times and love it!
I do not work from home, but the store where I currently work is going out of business and will be able to, hopefully, transfer stores.

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Having grown up in southern CA I would agree this. Please visit first as they are incredibly different; make sure Texas is you cup of tea. Don't believe those who say Austin is CA without the ocean -- that's laughable.

And you don't mention a job as a concern, OP... do you work from home?
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Old 07-27-2013, 07:27 PM
 
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Love this! Thanks! I've heard others say that SA has no areas with art, good to know there are!

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San Antonio:

Drove around some electic areas of SA, yesterday morning:
Pearl Brewery-Awwsome
Southton -Awesome for Art and the Bohemian lifestyle
Art Deco Area-You will think you in old school Cali, the visual are so similar.
Monte Vista and Olmos Park=- Beverly Hills
Alamo Heights=-Brentwood area or St Monica
Fort Sam Houston area- Echo Park
St Paul Square area= Central Avenue- This area is where Joan Crawford was born and raised.

These are just a few areas that are inside the center city area of San Antonio.
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Old 07-27-2013, 07:32 PM
 
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Incredibly helpful!!!
yes, it gets hot here and I have no A/C! I am, thankfully, close to the beach right now so it is not bad weather wise, but traffic and parking are a whole different thing. I drove around for 45 minutes the other night to try to park.
I lived right off of Lee Hwy, so that is also tremendously helpful!

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Funny. I don't know a single Texan who hasn't been to California.

I and my two kids have all lived in Cali as adults and now live back home in Texas. Daughter was born in and went to college there. Son-in-law is a fifth generation Huntington Beach native, now resident in DFW.

Texas is NOT 180 degrees from California. Vermont, maybe. California, no. The metropolitan areas and their suburbs are functionally identical to their peers, especially in Southern California. Car dependent, with some efforts at mass transit. Endless stretches of SFRs in planned communities. Big box retail clusters. Politicians in those metros are interchangeable. I've always felt that if you had a weirdness continuum, with Santa Cruz on one end, and Cut and Shoot on the other, you would find San Diego and Austin adjacent, right in the middle.

Yes. It is hot in Texas. But once you get five miles inland and away from the Pacific, Southern California is pretty hot as well. Palm Springs? El Centro? Bakersfield? Palmdale? All hot as hell - and all the time, not just summer. Just wait for a Santa Ana and tell me how cool it is - when most folks don't have a/c. Yes. We don't have mountains in the distance, and you can't enjoy a nearby beach with 500,000 of your closest friends packed in like sardines. C'est la vie. They don't have Barton Springs, Hamilton Pool, Blue Hole, or river tubing. We got first choice.

In many ways, Austin is also comparable to NoVa. Western Fairfax county is interchangeable with the suburbs here. Downtown is comparable to the Rosslyn-Shirlington-Ballston corridor. The areas adjacent to downtown, both n and s, have a same feel as a little more W Falls Church, especially along Lee Hwy.

Hope that helps.
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Old 07-27-2013, 07:35 PM
 
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Of course I have visited. Cost of living (money) is, typically, one of the major reasons that people move.

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Why are you even considering these areas? Cost of living is your driving motive for leaving California? Have you even bothered to visit or have you simply read articles that say Austin is the new promised land?
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