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Old 03-04-2019, 10:45 AM
 
Location: Round Rock, Texas
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The commute can be horrible and is getting worse because the mayor and the Austin cronies of the mayor want to develop with little plan for any common sense with that.

I spent 1 hour 45 minutes going from my work on the eastside to a happy hour last week at 360 x 2222 on a Wednesday at rush hour. I was in disbelief!
Sienna?
Someone in our Happy Hour group suggested that place but the traffic situation put the kibosh to the idea.
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Old 03-04-2019, 08:11 PM
 
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I would say no - especially because of the schools in Austin. Moving from NY to Austin will be a major surprise in terms of the suffocating heat, the traffic, and the enormous problems with some of the schools in the area. The few roads that are decent are turning into nightmares with more planned toll roads. Look at this chart -- NY spends almost three times as much money on education as Texas. http://www.governing.com/gov-data/ed...upil-data.html

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Old 03-04-2019, 08:13 PM
 
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The commute can be horrible and is getting worse because the mayor and the Austin cronies of the mayor want to develop with little plan for any common sense with that.

I spent 1 hour 45 minutes going from my work on the eastside to a happy hour last week at 360 x 2222 on a Wednesday at rush hour. I was in disbelief!
There is no place at 360/2222 that is worth going to happy hour for, especially from the east side.

If you are working on the east side all the best places are already there.

I might consider some central locations.
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Old 03-04-2019, 08:19 PM
 
Location: Round Rock, Texas
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^^^^
What Austin97 said.
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Old 03-04-2019, 10:01 PM
 
Location: Austin, TX
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There is no place at 360/2222 that is worth going to happy hour for, especially from the east side.

If you are working on the east side all the best places are already there.

I might consider some central locations.
Well said.
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Old 03-05-2019, 08:04 AM
 
Location: C.R. K-T
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There are things we like about NYC — like access to culture, international community (we are Europeans) etc,
Houston is definitely a better fit with its more established cultural and international communities, and less of a culture shock coming from NYC. Austin and San Antonio are not that far away (150-200 miles) for occasional weekend visits.
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Old 03-05-2019, 08:42 AM
 
Location: Austin, TX
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Houston is definitely a better fit with its more established cultural and international communities, and less of a culture shock coming from NYC. Austin and San Antonio are not that far away (150-200 miles) for occasional weekend visits.
I actually really like Houston, but the meme I saw recently was pretty accurate - "Houston is an hour away from Houston"
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Old 03-05-2019, 09:24 AM
 
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I actually really like Houston, but the meme I saw recently was pretty accurate - "Houston is an hour away from Houston"
I just saw one that said "Toronto is an hour away from Toronto".

Must be a thing, as they say.
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Old 03-06-2019, 04:17 PM
 
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Also, as many have said on this board, if you are coming to TX from the Northeast (and have lived nowhere else) it is usually the most difficult move as compared to coming from all other regions. We were lucky -- while we had spent a huge amount of time in the NE, we also lived in almost every other quadrant of the country prior to coming to Austin so our minds were fairly open.

After moving back here to the NYC metro/northern NJ, I can assure you the above ^ is accurate. It's just SO different in every way I can think of. People here take for granted so much stuff that doesn’t even exist in Texas.
THIS!! A thousand times - THIS! I moved here from Philadelphia 2 decades ago. And I still haven't adjusted or gotten used to these things. I miss the ocean. I miss mountains. I miss seasons. I miss being able to walk to just hop on a train. Etc., etc.

But there's also the less tangible things. The attitude here is just different. I'm not saying it's better or worse, just different. Things like sense of humor don't translate well. People in the NE tend to be more direct and honest and, in my opinion, more genuine. People here tend to be more superficial. Yes, they are nice, but it is more of a polite than genuinely nice, if that makes sense. The culture takes a lot of adjustment.
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Old 03-06-2019, 04:19 PM
 
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I actually really like Houston, but the meme I saw recently was pretty accurate - "Houston is an hour away from Houston"
I also saw something recently that said, "Austin, also known as northwest Houston..." If all the sprawl continues, it may be pretty accurate one day.
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