getting out of Cali, Dallas, Houston or hold out for Austin (Post: crime rate, how much)

[HtownLove]

Originally Posted by l2relo

I'm also currently residing in California and looking to relocate to Texas Aug 2012. I live in Los Angeles County and I am unhappy about the quality of living here. I am also conservative and looking for a place where I can feel safe to raise my family . I understand that I will be sacrificing the weather as its my understanding that it gets hot and humid in TX (Unsure about the humidity levels in Austin). but I'm okay with that. I visited only Austin and loved the friendly people, beautiful affordable homes and the green landscape of Austin. I have a close friend that relocated to Houston from Cali 6 years ago that loves it there and is begging me to check out Houston.

Even though I am very much impressed with Austin, I've notice that the demand for my line of work is needed in Austin but not as much as in Dallas and Houston. I am also in the Medical Field as a Medical Coder with years of experience. Does anybody know based on my occupation and my quality of living standards, which of the 3 cities in your opinion would best suit me? These are the qualities I'm looking for in a city to live in:

-safe neighborhoods
-good quality schools
-friendly people
-conservative community
-culturally diverse
-affordable housing Thanks.

-safe neighborhoods- All three have safe neighborhoods (whatever that means) doubt there is any city in the US that is just void of safe neighborhoods.
-good quality schools- All three have excellent schools. In terms of ranking, Dallas has two that are are top ten, but Houston and Austin have some top 25 schools too. I am assuming your not talking about Colleges.
-friendly people- Texas is friendly period.
-conservative community- Like neighborhoods, you find those anywhere. You will have better luck in the suburbs of either of the 3
-culturally diverse-Houston and Dallas are a lot more diverse than Austin, but Austin is catching up and probably will be close in about 30- 40 yrs. Houston is Historically the most diverse but Dallas has made improved greatly in the last 30 years that it has almost caught up to Houston.
-affordable housing- Houston is the most affordable of the three, then Dallas, Austin is the most expensive. Neither is all that bad tho.

Suggestions- I would suggest Tarrant County (Fort Worth area). It is not as diverse as Dallas County but it has lots of good neighborhoods, it is more conservative than Dallas, Houston or Austin, has good schools, lots of friendly people and affordable housing.

Another would probably be Sugarland. It is hella diverse and has all the stuff I mentioned about Tarrant County

[sxrckr]

You will be able to find what you want in all I think. The question you should be asking is more the neighborhood or area, rather than what city (all the cities will have good and bad areas, good and bad schools, affordable areas and expensive areas, etc.)

As far as your industry, all will have it but Houston is considered the hotbed of medical industry in the state, it has the largest medical district in the world (TX Med Cntr) and also lots of suburban hospitals.

Originally Posted by l2relo

I'm also currently residing in California and looking to relocate to Texas Aug 2012. I live in Los Angeles County and I am unhappy about the quality of living here. I am also conservative and looking for a place where I can feel safe to raise my family . I understand that I will be sacrificing the weather as its my understanding that it gets hot and humid in TX (Unsure about the humidity levels in Austin). but I'm okay with that. I visited only Austin and loved the friendly people, beautiful affordable homes and the green landscape of Austin. I have a close friend that relocated to Houston from Cali 6 years ago that loves it there and is begging me to check out Houston.

Even though I am very much impressed with Austin, I've notice that the demand for my line of work is needed in Austin but not as much as in Dallas and Houston. I am also in the Medical Field as a Medical Coder with years of experience. Does anybody know based on my occupation and my quality of living standards, which of the 3 cities in your opinion would best suit me? These are the qualities I'm looking for in a city to live in:

-safe neighborhoods
-good quality schools
-friendly people
-conservative community
-culturally diverse
-affordable housing Thanks.

[jacobwilliam77]

I say go to Austin. More population growth there.

[HtownLove]

Originally Posted by jacobwilliam77

I say go to Austin. More population growth there.

really??


Last decade:
Houston- 1.22M
DFW- 1.2M
S A - 450K
Austin- 450K

Looks like Austin got three times less people than Houston and DFW.

[David Dollar]

Originally Posted by l2relo

I'm also currently residing in California and looking to relocate to Texas Aug 2012. I live in Los Angeles County and I am unhappy about the quality of living here. I am also conservative and looking for a place where I can feel safe to raise my family . I understand that I will be sacrificing the weather as its my understanding that it gets hot and humid in TX (Unsure about the humidity levels in Austin). but I'm okay with that. I visited only Austin and loved the friendly people, beautiful affordable homes and the green landscape of Austin. I have a close friend that relocated to Houston from Cali 6 years ago that loves it there and is begging me to check out Houston.

Even though I am very much impressed with Austin, I've notice that the demand for my line of work is needed in Austin but not as much as in Dallas and Houston. I am also in the Medical Field as a Medical Coder with years of experience. Does anybody know based on my occupation and my quality of living standards, which of the 3 cities in your opinion would best suit me? These are the qualities I'm looking for in a city to live in:

-safe neighborhoods-----
-good quality schools
-friendly people
-conservative community
-culturally diverse
-affordable housing Thanks.

This is only a comparison between Houston and Austin.

Austin is much safer, but it feels muuuuuuuuch safer.
Public schools is Austin are going to be better.
Austin is friendlier than Houston, and service is MUCH better.
Houston is much more conservative than Austin.
Houston is more curturally diverse. On paper it may not seem to be much of a difference, but in practice you can find a larger variety of people and things.
People say Houston. Consider this, most places in Austin are fine to live in, but you have to PAY for a decent place in Houston.

[HtownLove]

Originally Posted by David Dollar

This is only a comparison between Houston and Austin.

Austin is much safer, but it feels muuuuuuuuch safer.
Public schools is Austin are going to be better.
Austin is friendlier than Houston, and service is MUCH better.
Houston is much more conservative than Austin.
Houston is more curturally diverse. On paper it may not seem to be much of a difference, but in practice you can find a larger variety of people and things.
People say Houston. Consider this, most places in Austin are fine to live in, but you have to PAY for a decent place in Houston.

all of this false. No need to even go threw this one by one. All of it is made up.

[David Dollar]

Originally Posted by HtownLove

all of this false. No need to even go threw this one by one. All of it is made up.

Here is a link comparing crime.
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[HtownLove]

Originally Posted by David Dollar

Here is a link comparing crime.

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Exactly. That showed that you were wrong.

How can someone feel safer in Austin when they have a higher rape rate, a higher theft rate, and a similar burglary rate. Crime is crime dude, and it looks like Austin for a much much smaller area is very scary.

**** Austin looks like a scary place to be a woman.

also, you dredged up 5 year old stats. This fails to show that Austin's crime rates are skyrocketing and Houston's are going down.

[David Dollar]

These links compare schools.

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[HtownLove]

Originally Posted by David Dollar

These links compare schools.

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Thanks again. I knew you would make my arguments for me in proving that your own statements were wrong.