You should ask for more. Unless you want to live in the suburbs, housing is quite expensive.
Tax is a lot lower in Austin
Not the property tax though.
75k is a very average salary in austin. You can make a decent living (probably better than sf) but i think you should be aiming for 90k +. You can get a pretty nice apartment for 1-1.3k if you live outside downtown and you’ll save a lot more. I recently moved away from Austin so i have some idea of salaries there.
Austin is cheaper for rent and way cheaper to buy. To rent it’s about 67% of bay. To buy it’s 33%. Use those numbers as benchmarks. No More than 1/4 of your net income should go toward housing. So for that 1/4 you can do the math. You get way more House in Austin. If you want just a 1BR your savings will be considerable.
Where in Austin though? Northside? Downtown? West, East, a suburb? Prices fluctuate dramatically across town for rent and purchase. Keep in mind how far you plan on living from work. Public transit sucks here and traffic is absolutely fucked most hours of the day especially on 35 Don’t even get me started on the temperature outside right now.
Be sure to factor in compensation for having to live in Texas. And yes, Austin is still Texas.
Not sure what type of cost you’re referring to here. One of the costly things about Texas is the high property tax. People don’t realize how out of hand it is. However, we don’t have state income tax, but neither does Florida and their property taxes aren’t even half as high as what ours are.
LOL look at rent numbers in Austin, it's still 2k a month for a decent one, so that's around 2-3k less than SF and your salary difference should be less than 30k to make sense