# Wish I lived in Austin, TX. Am I the only one that wishes they lived somewhere else? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 14, 2013, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wish-i-lived-in-austin-tx-am-i-the-only-one-that-wishes-they-lived-somewhere-else/650240 "2013-02-14T00:46:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![diggerwam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/919ad9/32.png) [@diggerwam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/diggerwam)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2013, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wish-i-lived-in-austin-tx-am-i-the-only-one-that-wishes-they-lived-somewhere-else/650240/21 "2013-02-16T03:13:48Z")
If I could sell my house for a profit, i’d move back to Milwaukee, WI. ---
**Author:** ![DummyGladHands](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/49beb7/32.png) [@DummyGladHands](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DummyGladHands)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2013, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wish-i-lived-in-austin-tx-am-i-the-only-one-that-wishes-they-lived-somewhere-else/650240/22 "2013-02-16T03:31:49Z")
Cinnamon Bay, USVI ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2013, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wish-i-lived-in-austin-tx-am-i-the-only-one-that-wishes-they-lived-somewhere-else/650240/23 "2013-02-16T04:26:00Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > Falmouth Mass is on Cape Cod. Dad was stationed there eight years at Otis Air Base. I lived there until the sixth grade. Loved sledding in the winter and ice skating. Summers we were at the beach only 1 1/2 mile away. Cranberry bogs were only a few blocks from my house. > > Beautiful area in the summer. Nice beaches. There’s a lot of really great places to visit within a hour or so driving. > > Down side is the tourist traffic. Cape Cod is a big summer tourist destination. Lots of snow but actually the cape is somewhat protected from the really bad winter storms. Other areas of Mass get hit a lot harder. > > Even after all these years I still miss Cape Cod. I work near Cape Cod and would never consider going there recreationaly and actively avoid it especially during the summer. I never understood and probably never will why people actually pay big money to go vacation there but Massachusetts people shell out huge money year after year to get a shack at least a 10 minute walk from a beach that might be just cold instead of freezing depending on your luck that year. No thanks, real beaches only exist in the Caribbean or the equivalent in my mind. Many people like yourself love it however and I can’t deny you that. One thing I learned from this thread is that it takes all types. A lot of us are mislocated and have an exchange program for people that don’t appreciate where they live and want to be somewhere else. ---
**Author:** ![Pooty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Pooty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pooty)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2013, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wish-i-lived-in-austin-tx-am-i-the-only-one-that-wishes-they-lived-somewhere-else/650240/24 "2013-02-16T04:31:17Z")
> [@UncleRojelio](#): > > Born and raised here in Austin. I don’t intend to leave anytime soon. I’m jealous! ---
**Author:** ![Pooty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Pooty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pooty)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2013, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wish-i-lived-in-austin-tx-am-i-the-only-one-that-wishes-they-lived-somewhere-else/650240/25 "2013-02-16T04:32:23Z")
> [@moejoe](#): > > I just recently moved from the San Francisco area to PNW and I love it. I’ve been planning and dreaming of this move for years and now I’m living right where I want to be. Sometimes I find myself feeling that old anxious longing just out of habit and then I think wake up! You did it! You’re here! Aww! That’s awesome! So happy for you! ---
**Author:** ![Pooty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Pooty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pooty)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2013, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wish-i-lived-in-austin-tx-am-i-the-only-one-that-wishes-they-lived-somewhere-else/650240/26 "2013-02-16T04:34:35Z")
> [@phouka](#): > > The only things keeping me from moving there are lack of family, sparse employment, and cost of living. > > Maybe I’ll win the lottery. Hope you get back there. That’s how I feel about Austin.. Let’s both win the lottery:) ---
**Author:** ![Pooty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Pooty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pooty)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2013, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wish-i-lived-in-austin-tx-am-i-the-only-one-that-wishes-they-lived-somewhere-else/650240/27 "2013-02-16T04:37:16Z")
> [@bump](#): > > …with a helicopter. > > I’m pretty happy here in Dallas. The only place I’d want to move is Houston (where my parents live) or possibly Austin (where in-laws live), and that’s mostly so we can be closer to our parents so they can spend more time with the kid and any future kids. > > Otherwise, I do like Houston, but it’s not a particularly great city for IT/computing folks, and my wife bitches about the humidity. Austin is too full of dreamy, space-cadet hippies and stinky people, the traffic is atrocious, and it’s just too hot and dry there for me. Haha! I love hippies 🙂 No helicopter. I lived in the hills. No traffic just side roads to 6th street because my neiborhood was on lake austin drive which turned in to 6th street. ---
**Author:** ![Pooty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Pooty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pooty)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2013, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wish-i-lived-in-austin-tx-am-i-the-only-one-that-wishes-they-lived-somewhere-else/650240/28 "2013-02-16T04:38:38Z")
> [@Tapiotar](#): > > Another to say you are not alone. I moved to Upstate NY for the sake of elderly parents, and really, really want to leave. Of all the places I’ve lived, I love the Pacific NW the most, even though it was hard to make friends there. Don’t know where I’ll be going next, once I am free to leave. Hope things work out for you! ---
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2013, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wish-i-lived-in-austin-tx-am-i-the-only-one-that-wishes-they-lived-somewhere-else/650240/29 "2013-02-16T14:18:48Z")
There are a lot of places I’d rather live, but only if I was rich. Where we live right now fits our income and patience for traffic. If we were rich? My husband would insist on SoCal. I’d then insist on long vacations in London. ---
**Author:** ![JackieLikesVariety](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackielikesvariety/32/296_2.png) [@JackieLikesVariety](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JackieLikesVariety)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2013, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wish-i-lived-in-austin-tx-am-i-the-only-one-that-wishes-they-lived-somewhere-else/650240/30 "2013-02-16T15:37:10Z")
hey Pooty? > [@](#): > > Am I the only one that wishes they lived somewhere else? if you go to the forums at city-data you will find lots of people who are talking about nothing else, pretty much. [http://www.city-data.com/](http://www.city-data.com/) I would LOVE to be in Portland, except I need sun. I really \*need \*it. ---
**Author:** ![Pooty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Pooty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pooty)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2013, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wish-i-lived-in-austin-tx-am-i-the-only-one-that-wishes-they-lived-somewhere-else/650240/31 "2013-02-16T21:23:31Z")
> [@JackieLikesVariety](#): > > hey Pooty? > > if you go to the forums at city-data you will find lots of people who are talking about nothing else, pretty much. > > [http://www.city-data.com/](http://www.city-data.com/) > I would LOVE to be in Portland, except I need sun. I really \*need \*it. Thanks 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Beastly\_Rotter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/45deac/32.png) [@Beastly\_Rotter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beastly_Rotter)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2013, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wish-i-lived-in-austin-tx-am-i-the-only-one-that-wishes-they-lived-somewhere-else/650240/32 "2013-02-16T21:36:53Z")
Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to was never there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it. Flannery O’Connor ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2013, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wish-i-lived-in-austin-tx-am-i-the-only-one-that-wishes-they-lived-somewhere-else/650240/33 "2013-02-17T22:13:46Z")
> [@JackieLikesVariety](#): > > hey Pooty? > > if you go to the forums at city-data you will find lots of people who are talking about nothing else, pretty much. > > [http://www.city-data.com/](http://www.city-data.com/) > I would LOVE to be in Portland, except I need sun. I really \*need \*it. Oh, yeah. The city-data forums are a lively bunch. Cape Cod, specifically Wellfleet is where I’d like to live. ETA: North of the Orleans rotary is less touristy during the summer. Woods Hole would be my 2nd choice. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wish-i-lived-in-austin-tx-am-i-the-only-one-that-wishes-they-lived-somewhere-else/650240.md?page=1)