interracial couple thinking of moving to TX (Houston, Dallas: renting, neighborhoods)

[blmccloud]

I wanted to see what cities you all would suggest in Texas that don't have a problem with interracial couples?

I am white/Mexican and my husband is Black/Puerto Rican and my kids are more white than anything else, but my husband is thier adoptive father! We are looking to relocate to a lower cost of living and a place where jobs are available, but also am not blind to the fact that there are still people with problems with mixed couples.

Sorry for being so direct, but we have dealt with this sort of thing before!
Thank you all for any help!

[Alphalogica]

Originally Posted by blmccloud

I wanted to see what cities you all would suggest in Texas that don't have a problem with interracial couples?

I am white/Mexican and my husband is Black/Puerto Rican and my kids are more white than anything else, but my husband is thier adoptive father! We are looking to relocate to a lower cost of living and a place where jobs are available, but also am not blind to the fact that there are still people with problems with mixed couples.

Sorry for being so direct, but we have dealt with this sort of thing before!
Thank you all for any help!

My mom is white as a cloud (grew up in Green Bay, WI, arguably one of the "whitest" parts of the US), my dad is mainland Chinese and lived in Texas my whole life. I currently reside in Huntsville, TX. It's really what you make of it. There are people who do have their issues with it, but I would imagine, save maybe for most parts of California and Hawaii, most places have people who frown on it to some degree even in this day in age.

Most urban areas (Austin, Houston) are fairly progressive on this issue. I would stay away from deep East Texas and most rural areas.

[blmccloud]

Thanks for the reply & info

[doctorjef]

I'd suggest Austin as the most truly accepting city, and by that I mean the City of Austin proper, not most of its suburbs -- even better, central Austin, north of Ben White and south of approximately 51st St. or North Loop and east of MoPac. To bound central Austin in, I would normally say I-35, but the historically African-American and Hispanic areas east of I-35 are being progressively gentrified so that there are some good possibilities over there, probably especially in the Manor Road area (the oldest area of gentrification). My personal preferences for neighborhoods in central Austin would be Hyde Park, Bryker Woods, Bolden, and Travis Heights; also Rosedale, essentially abutting Bryker Woods. Zilker and Barton Hills are also good, as is Clarksville. Sadly, in all these cases you are paying a premium to live in Central or South Central Austin. Bolden is probably the area where you can still find the best deals even now (all this is relevant, of course, primarily if you were buying rather than renting). There are also some other little pockets in South Central Austin that I never knew what the neighborhoods were called even when I lived there -- some other little pockets between South Lamar and South Congress that aren't Bolden and that are kind of invisiblely hidden away back there.

[Cowboys fan in Houston]

My wife and I are interracial and we have not had even the slightest issue in Dallas or any of its suburbs.

[doctorjef]

And I really don't think that an interracial couple is likely to have problems in Dallas, Fort Worth, San Antonio, Austin or Houston, confining the discussion only to the larger cities. When I commend central Austin it's just because I think overall Austin has the greatest and longest-running tradition of what I might term libertarian liberalism -- live and let live, and celebration of diversity. Dallas and Houston also have neighborhoods that are well known for diversity, urbanity and acceptance, but Austin as a whole has IMO the most generally enculturated tradition of that.

[blmccloud]

thank you all for your replies, this is making me feel better and better about texas!

[austinitelookingtohelp]

I am a bit biased, being a native Austinite, but Austin would definitely be the best choice over all. It is a very accepting city IMHO.

[getmeoutofhere]

Stay out of backwoods Texas and nobody will care at all. Any major city and you'll be fine.

[doctorjef]

Originally Posted by getmeoutofhere

Stay our of backwoods Texas and nobody will care at all. Any major city and you'll be fine.

I think that really sums it up.