# So should I move to Austin, or stay in Dallas?

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [July 10, 2003, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-should-i-move-to-austin-or-stay-in-dallas/187523 "2003-07-10T18:12:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![My\_Darn\_Snake\_Legs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f14d63/32.png) [@My\_Darn\_Snake\_Legs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/My_Darn_Snake_Legs)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2003, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-should-i-move-to-austin-or-stay-in-dallas/187523/21 "2003-07-11T22:07:34Z")

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**October** , Thanks for the advice. I don’t have any problem meeting people, so I don’t worry about that. As for my relationship is really stable and has been for almost two years.

I have a complex in mind and I’ll probably go down next week and check it out.

**BNB** , I’ll have to check that museum out just for the novelty of it 🙂

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**Author:** ![Pablito](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed655f/32.png) [@Pablito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pablito)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2003, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-should-i-move-to-austin-or-stay-in-dallas/187523/22 "2003-07-11T22:26:13Z")

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Austin, of course.

And to whoever said that Austin traffic is worse than Houston’s, as someone who grew up in Houston and has visited both cities many times in the years since moving away, I have to say that you’re crazy. Houston traffic is famously bad, among the worst in the entire country. That, and museums, are the primary areas in which Houston has Austin beat. When I hear people complain about traffic jams, I usually just chuckle to myself remembering just how bad it can be in Houston.

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**Author:** ![Mama\_Tiger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Mama\_Tiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Tiger)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2003, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-should-i-move-to-austin-or-stay-in-dallas/187523/23 "2003-07-11T22:32:20Z")

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Austin. Definitely Austin. No contest, hands down Austin.

Yes, it’s changed a lot – I moved away in '92 and from what I’m told it’s grown so much I wouldn’t recognize the place now – but it’s still one of the coolest cities anywhere, ever.

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