Bought a house in Austin and ended up moving back to LA. I couldn’t breathe some days because of the air, not even in my house. Spent two years here. Los Angeles is by far superior and SoCal in general. Here’s my top 8 reasons why Austin sucks: 1. Most of the fun stuff to do is really go to bars or walk along a lake that’s really like a giant river. 2. It can hit 90 degrees in February and humid. 3. Allergies are terrible here. 4. If you’re single, it’s a little more fun but basically you got the Domain, Rainey, Dirty 6, and East 6th. That’s it. That’s basically all. It’s a giant town with a wishful city look. It gets old fast. No true diverse neighborhoods. 5. Not a ton of things to draw inspiration from. Not very scenic. Land locked. Lack of true public land. 6. Mexican food here is terrible and nothing like California’s. Food in general is okay in Austin but not that special. 7. Overpriced homes. I’m under water like $50K. Luckily I got it rented out back in January. 8. Again, the weather basically fucking sucks, especially the summers. I would literally be in tears of joy when we had cold days. I never use to beg for cold days. If you took Phoenix on it’s hottest day and sunk it into the Atlantic Ocean and went to visit, you would get Austin. It’s the most overhyped city in America. It truly blows. Texas as a whole blows, but Austin is straight robbery vs the hype. Listen to all the people from Texas when they say don’t come to Austin, don’t come. They’re doing you a favor. 32 M / one kid / TC: $660K
Im single. I was thinking of moving to austin from seattle. Should i go to LA instead? I want a better dating environment
LA women look wise are superior to Austin. Austin chicks though are more down to earth and approachable but if you know how to finesse, LA dating scene is superior. If you’re into thick women, LA is superior or curvy women. If you like petite women, LA has plenty of those but Austin they flock to. LA has it all though. LA climate is maybe the worlds best with Barcelona Spain. It’s gorgeous.
If you couldn’t do it in Seattle, not sure how much better LA is…
What about Seattle for dating and living? Agreed on climate. 105-110 is insane for 2 months
660k ? What do you do in AMAZon?
I guarantee nobody on earth thinks Austin is comparable to LA lol
Allergies. Texas as a whole is bad for allergies. I moved from Minneapolis and I miss the lake, beautiful park in the neighborhood, and of course the beautiful north summer. TX sucks
Austin is nothing special flyover country college town and should be priced as such. The only reason it was ever interesting was before working remotely was technically feasible, so a place had to be picked to place LCOL offices, and when it was dirt cheap. Why you would pick Austin over 100 other flyover America college towns at 3x the price when you can work remotely is a very deep mystery to me.
Isn’t there a ton of smog in LA? How are you breathing better there?
It is horrible. I don’t get it (even without considering politics)
Wait…we already moving back to Cali now? I thought the plan was still everyone should move to Texas and Cali is dead
Must be f*cked if you're in the AUSTIN team