Posted on 12/23/2014 5:22:36 PM PST by JVB052010
I am moving from Denver to TX but I don't know which town is better: SA or Austin? I am Catholic, but also middle class white. I want racial diversity, active economy and nightlife, safe town and a way to stimulate my life. I need a place Asthma and Allergy friendly.
If you are on FR you would prefer Fort Worth to either Austin or Dallas. AS for allergies... we have plenty of allergies and allergists !! Nowhere in the inhabitable part of Texas is allergy-friendly. I moved to Ft. Worth area from Denver eons ago and have never been happier !! Welcome to Texas Ya’all ... and as the sign in Risky’s Bar B Q restaurant says.. Like is too short to live in Dallas County !
Austin is not in the valley. Not even close.
Round Rock, Georgetown and Pflugerville are nice places to live around Austin.
First, Welcome to FR. As for Texas- Prepare for allergy hell, dust, tornadoes, wind, heat, drought, flash flooding, caliche, clay, sand, limestone, rattlesnakes, scorpions, fire ants, illegals and chupacabras, the best barbeque brisket and sausage on the planet, ice cold beer, sweet tea, guns, pickup trucks, longhorns, aggies, dance halls, beirgartens, oil wells, gas wells, tex-mex heaven, bluebonnets, and stunning sunrises and sunsets. Oh, and guns... Lots of guns and not enough ranges, ammo or enough hours in the day to shoot guns. Did I say guns? Good, but just one more time to make sure. We all have guns. Lots of guns. We love guns.
Come on y’all, everybody in Texas has allergies. If they don’t have any now, they will.
I’d choose on the basis of good BBQ, but I’m weird like that. If Austin or San Antone are the choices, I’d go for Bandera. Kinda between the two, and in the heart of the beautiful Hill Country.
If you’re a liberal Austin will be more to your liking.
If you want to remake the State of Texas into the failed Socialist utopia you’re leaving then it’s a terrible place and you won’t like the climate.
Perhaps you’d be happier in Detroit!
Any town or city with cedars to the west is bad. That includes Waco to SA and south. DFW is best. Ft Worth is where I wish I lived. I am in Dallas.
Do you have to live in a major city? New Braunfels may be considered also the Bryan/College Station Area. Just about everywhere in Tx in mid summer to early Sept is hot like an oven. I’m up here in the DFW area and along with Houston and Austin the traffic is mighty thick in spots. A little less so in San Antonio.
I just know that it is humid as all get out in the summer.
I live in Denton County, for the most part it’s very conservative, except for Denton around the UNT and TWU campuses, there it’s like Berkeley.
When I retire, I am looking at the Horseshoe Bay area. Love it there.
'...you may all go to hell and I will go to Texas'.
I had a friend who was transferring to Austin for a job promotion. I suggested he check out San Marcos.
He not only liked it, he bought a house there and thanked me for the suggestion. He had 12 children and liked the University there. It was easy to get his kids into and was still a good college.
Except that Austin hasn't had any real rain to speak of for the last five years now, and the lakes are at about 35% of capacity.
Texas has no mountains like Colorado. It is generally very hot and allergy rich. No large town in Texas is fun nor safe nor happily habitable; Baptists and Church Christ prevail -—Catholics are rare. Being middle class white wanting diversity and an active nightlife should incline you towards New York city where the action now seems to be. The economy is ok, if you are looking for manual labor in the oil patch. Texas probably is not for you.
Sounds like they need some of the rain we are getting here in Tennessee.
Split the difference and go for the best: New Braunfels.
They would probably pay you to bring it over to them!!
Might want to consider not going to San Antonio. Has a recent history of insane Austin type of governance. Passed laws defining public hate speech, subpoenaed preachers sermons because they opposed the queer friendly laws, etc. Castro went to be a flunky for Obama but his replacement doesn’t seem to be much better.
Tread carefully here,boys and girls! ;-)
>> I need a place Asthma and Allergy friendly. <<
Check the statistics. Some years, Austin has been listed as one of the USA’s worst places for allergies.
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