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My wife and I were just down in the Hill Country seeing my family in New Braunfels, and spent a few days in Austin as we usually do. I'm from Texas as some of you know; l grew up in the Ft. Worth suburbs and moved to Chicago in 2001.
We really started to daydream about moving to Austin. We sold our condo in Chicago back in September, made great money on it, and still haven't found a house in the Chicago suburbs. What we could buy in Austin within 12-15 miles of downtown is incredible vs. Chicago. A $400K new construction home down there would easily cost a million more in Chicago.
We've got family within an hour south, and within 3 hours north of Austin, which is great since we have another kid on the way in June. It's easy for me to imagine moving - I've already done it once, but she's always lived in Illinois and her family is about 1 1/2 hours away.
Tech jobs seem plentiful in Austin, maybe more so than in Chicago.
Anyone have some advice, insight, etc. about living there? I know what the heat is like in the summer and i know it can be brutal. Trying to imagine dealing with that with kids, being active outdoors. It would be an adjustment for her for sure. I'd love the greater amount of outdoor stuff - cycling, hiking, more landscape photography, rivers and swimming, and being able to get down to New Braunfels regularly to see my family.
Any thoughts?
- No brainer, more opportunity and less taxes in Texas. Just don't bring a communist mindset or anti constitution baggage with you. Probably more tech jobs in DFWHayoth
- fastest growing city right now.dbloc
- I'd move to Libya before I'd move back to DFW!mg33
- At least Austin is predominantly liberal, but I do worry about overall Texas politics continuing to mess up so much there.mg33
- If you can survive a summer in Chicago you can survive a summer in Austin.fooler
- ^ It barely gets above 90 here and the past few summers have been really mild.mg33
- Consider San Marcos, fantastic place & between two great cities Austin and historic San Antonio and no traffic.robotron3k