Currently in Seattle Eastside. Sick and tired of rain and gloominess here. Austin fits our criteria roughly in terms of sunny weather, good job mobility for tech, and good house value for $$$. For those who lived or living in Austin. Please help me understand the below questions. 1. Can you actually enjoy outdoor activities like paddle board, kayaking, biking and hiking? Other than summer months (Jun, Jul, Aug) it is actually ok to be outside mid day? Do you go in the morning? Mild winter time actually enjoyable outdoor? We don’t want to trade our outdoor lifestyle for staying indoor with the A/C on or staying in pools all day. 2. Snakes, mosquitoes, cockroaches. Does it prevent you from enjoying your backyard for weekend brunch or bbq or enjoying outdoor water activities? It would be a bummer we moved for the weather and we can’t fully enjoy it. Would you feel safe to let kids play in the yard alone? 3. Allergy. How bad is it and how do you cope with it? Does it impact your family/kids health? If I get them tested for pollen allergy, will I know if they may get impacted or now in advance or people develop the allergy there? How long does it last and how much does it impact your daily life quality? Thank you so much! TC: 450K #housing #austin
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Lol Can you all give me some context?
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Almost impossible to go out in summers
How about outside of peak summer (Jun, Jul, Aug). Can you go out and do outdoorsy things?
Yes. Totally. Great weather rest of the year
I just moved to Austin. Take my opinion with a grain of salt 1. It's hot here, like really hot. I can be 70-80 degrees in the spring and fall month. Over 100 during the hot months in the summer. Texas does have a winter but it's short. 2. I smashed a spider as big as my palm my first week here. But I still spend plenty of time outside. 3. I get seasonal allergies and have not noticed them worse here. But you could react differently obviously so no definite answers. Also the homeless situation is much much better since they got rid of the camping law.
Thanks! Where did you move from? How about morning time during summer, would you go out and hike or paddle board? Or it is still too much? Do you enjoy it overall?
Remember when people say “paddle board”, they do it on the stagnant lady bird lake that if you fall in you will likely get a rash because it’s polluted. It’s not the ocean or a running river. To live close enough to that “lake” to do it in the am you are talking 1.7-2M for a small house or be in a condo.
You can do outdoor things year round. It depends on your tolerance for heat. Plenty of people out on the lake in the summer months. I would say too many, but maybe you like crowds. If you don't, don't move here. Everything mildly interesting is very crowded. Snake and roaches aren't an issue at all. Mosquitoes can be a problem. They love me so certain times of day are torture unless I am doused in repellant. Many of the worst allergies like cedar fever develop after you've been here a while. Austin is terrible for allergy sufferers in general.
Thanks! How people cope with the allergies? Is it a couple of weeks to a month thing or year around?
People who do outdoor in Austin summer are prone for skin cancer. Austin has one of highest UV index in entire US, there will be recommendations from weather apps not to go out and expose urself due to high UV index. It's really not safe to try and venture our in peak simmers till 7 or 7:30 pm or so
Come visit in July or August and see what you think. Yes, it is hot. No, most people are not holed up inside all summer. Yes, there are bugs and reptiles. Unless you’re scared of them, it shouldn’t have an impact.
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Left after a couple years and moved to the Bay. Food in Austin sucks (they can do BBQ and fried chicken, that's about it), weather sucks (grew up in WA, pretty sure it rained more in Austin than WA) government sucks (and you'll never change it), infrastructure sucks (have fun with the shitty electrical grid, lost power in TX more than WA or CA)... Only reason to stay in TX is because you can't afford to live in CA. Only thing we miss is HEB.
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