# Tell me about Austin Texas before I move there.. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 30, 2007, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-austin-texas-before-i-move-there/431687 "2007-12-30T07:35:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![kelly5078](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/6f9a4e/32.png) [@kelly5078](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kelly5078)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2008, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-austin-texas-before-i-move-there/431687/61 "2008-01-02T23:43:49Z")
I you don’t like the constant smell of cedars, it’s not for you. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2008, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-austin-texas-before-i-move-there/431687/62 "2008-01-03T02:50:15Z")
[QUOTE=Bridget Burke] So maybe it’s time for you to get out of Austin. However, I think you’d probably find _most_ places full of miserable fuckers. [/QUOTE] There’s always be _at least one._ 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2008, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-austin-texas-before-i-move-there/431687/63 "2008-01-03T02:50:43Z")
[QUOTE=UncleRojelio] Already been done by a million other fuckers before you. Austin sucks now because all you yankee fuckers think exactly alike. Try to have an original thought once in awhile. [/QUOTE] Note to the OP: This is what you’ll pretty much run into when you get there, all the while with them saying how friendly they are. Mm-hmm. ---
**Author:** ![cornflakes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@cornflakes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cornflakes)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2008, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-austin-texas-before-i-move-there/431687/64 "2008-01-03T06:31:28Z")
[QUOTE=duality72] Austin is a [stinking hellhole of sin](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQ7zVi5YLAc). Everyone, try not to move here all at once. [/QUOTE] Yeah, those [Greater Tuna](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpZz-q1dQWU) guys have been at it for years, but it’s a funny schtick. Oh wait, that wasn’t them, was it? ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2008, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-austin-texas-before-i-move-there/431687/65 "2008-01-03T15:40:18Z")
[QUOTE=Stoid] 3+2? Pool? Trees? [/QUOTE] Sorry for the delay in the response. Yes, the house is a 3+2. There is one large Live Oak in the backyard and ones that are close in the neighbors yards. It is a new area so many houses do have 2 skinny and sickly trees in the front yard. I don’t have a pool, but there is a community pool that is a 3 minute walk away. The house is on a greenbelt. When I open the blinds in my bedroom in the morning, I only see greenery. Just under 2500 sq. ft. with lots of hardwood flooring and easy access to 183. If you are interested in more information, let me know and I can send you a link to a virtual tour of the house. ---
**Author:** ![Kizarvexius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/da6949/32.png) [@Kizarvexius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kizarvexius)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2008, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-austin-texas-before-i-move-there/431687/66 "2008-01-03T17:51:18Z")
I moved to Austin two years ago and _love it_. It’s a fascinating combination of funky old hippies and flag-waving rednecks who, against all conceivable logic, seem to get along pretty well. Provided they belong to separate homeowners associations, that is. I can see, though, where **UncleRojelio** is coming from. It’s been my experience that almost nobody I’ve met is a born-and-raised Austinite. Everybody is from somewhere else. Having marketed itself as a haven for the arts and regularly cited as one of the best cities in America for young people to meet and socialize, I really suppose it shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise. And so **UncleRojelio** is not alone. I have heard laments from a number of old timers about the lost good ol’ days and complaints about the exodus of yuppies. That being said, however, I’ve lived in a lot of places, and never experienced a city that conjured so much local pride. There’s always so much to see and do, from the extravagant (I saw my first ever Broadway show – _The Lion King_ last year on the UT Campus) to the free and groovy (the bat flight on Congress Street Bridge never gets old). In fact, other than the traffic, which I would describe as Kafkaesque, I’d call it far and away the best place I’ve ever hung my hat. ---
**Author:** ![aktep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f0a364/32.png) [@aktep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aktep)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2008, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-austin-texas-before-i-move-there/431687/67 "2008-01-03T22:25:30Z")
[QUOTE=kelly5078] I you don’t like the constant smell of cedars, it’s not for you. [/QUOTE] You can smell them? I cadn’t smell addyding \ \ \ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-austin-texas-before-i-move-there/431687.md?page=3)