[Jack Hammer]

I’ve often considered moving to Texas to get away from the insanity of my home state; guess I’ll cross Houston off the list, though.

And I’ve heard Austin is pretty Leftist, too, huh?

[VerySadAmerican]

Austin is not where you want to be! It’s bizarre. They made a big deal out of a gay man being elected to the city council back in the early 90s. I knew a loan officer who did a loan for the guy he was getting paid lots of money sitting on boards of huge companies.

[Milton Miteybad]

Houston is actually fairly conservative, except for the municipal government. Outside the Houston city limits, the suburbs are as conservative as it gets. Houston's character is much like that of it's primary industry, the international energy business, of which Houston is the undisputed world capital. Successful energy concerns are conservative by nature; one would expect the place where they live to be of a similar character.

Austin, on the other hand, after the crash-and-burn of Dell, really no longer has anything similar, other than state government. It's pretty much just an agglomeration of self-admiring communists, a overgrown burg with only mere pretensions of relevance, chock full of sniveling public sector losers who have completely forgotten who pays the bills in the first place.

But Austin does have some pretty good Mexican food. Credit where credit is due, and all that...