Austin may be a boom town but it is full of Marxists. I lived in that hell-hole known as Houston for eight years and can tell you that one of the happiest times of my life was seeing Houston in my rear view mirror for the last time. The heat,humidity, traffic and crime are unbearable.
I live in NW harris county...have been in Houston since ‘57...Houston has always been a great city...just don’t live in Houston proper today...then you’re mixed in with all the minorities. It has changed over the years...no doubt...but over all it is a GREAT CITY. Houston is the most air conditioned city in the world...so if you don’t like the weather stay inside. You can always find a job in Houston...even when the rest of the country is on the skids...so where do you live now...in Dallas?
I’m a native of Houston, and while parts of it could certainly be considered ‘bad’, it’s no Detroit, New Orleans (unless you count awesome food), or anywhere in Mexico.
I’ve had my truck broken into twice in the last 10 years. Once in front of my dads house in the suburbs, and once at the baseball stadium in downtown (the Astros were good then, I think it was 2000? 2001?).
Heat - that’s why there’s a/c
Humidity - hell, we’ve topped 100F for over two weeks, and nary a drop of rain for months on end at my place
Crime - I live in the country, unincorporated county, and while I’ve had a few things stolen off my porch, nothing I can’t live without, so I’m praying they needed it more than I did.
Every city has good and bad. If you’re in LA, Chicago or NY, your traffic is worse - as it should be. Houston metro has almost 6 million folks, most who live spread out in the suburbs, or like me, in the boonies. It’s going to have traffic. Just leave a little early, or shift your hours and you’re good to go.
Austin suffers from being a DC-lite, the capital of the state AND a big college town.
Dallas is booming partially from the Barnett Shale - with many suburbs allowing drilling for natural gas within city limits.