Frontman

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So i live is Sacramento right now but i might have a job opportunity opening up in austin in the next couple months. I just want to know how you guys like it out there. I'm a 22 year old banker into fast cars and sports, how do you think i'll fit in? One thing is for sure if i go out there i'm selling my tahoe and getting a modded to hell f-body. Only crappy part is i'll be leaving ALL of my family behind. I've got some friends out there already but i'm pretty family oriented and it means i wouldn't see them nearly as much. But for me it means about 55k a year base salary compared to the weak *** 37k i get now. What do you guys think?

2 SLOW

you suck dick brah?

Frontman

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No, why is that a prerequisite to moving to texas? You have to be a gay pudding eating cowboy to live there?

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LOL @ 1st response



and Austin is tight... I love it here... but also I'm a 21 year old senior in college

hardcorebob

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Austin is WAAAY overcrowded, expensive to live at, and the job market here sucks. If you lose that great job, be prepaired to look for a LONG time before you find another decent job. I've lived here since I was a kid (now I'm 36) and I'm getting the hell outta here sometime this summer because of the above items I mentioned. Too many yankees and ******* cali people have moved here for my wife's and my tastes.

Boobka

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Coming from CA you will feel right at home with the hippies in Austin ;D

Plus the increase in pay and the substantial decrease in cost of living from CA you will feel super rich!

2 SLOW

LOL, you just trying to keep people out man?

MESS

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Griswold

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what company are you going to work for?

kerryt1

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it's waaay cheaper to live in ANYWHERE in Texas than California. Austin is a damned cool town. Live music capital of the world or something like that, very fun place. Something there for everyone.

hardcorebob

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Nah, just speaking the truth! I'm getting the f outta here, not trying to keep people out. I just want him to know the truth before he moves here and realizes the place sucks now. Austin isn't the cool laid back it once was. The hippies have slowly but surely moved away and been replaced by money grubbing ****** from all over the US. The fact that you can't drive without being in traffic 20 out of 24 hours in a day should tell you the city can't handle this many people.

hardcorebob

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If you like SRV rip offs or cover bands, this is the place for you! The music scene here SUCKS and no touring groups hardly ever come here anymore. They are living in the past (80-90's) when the music scene here actually ROCKED major ***!

SSilverSSurfer

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austin ftw, nice place, i would say houston for the job market but you gotta watch where you move to

lo_jack

iTrader: (27)

Expensive? He's in SACRAMENTO. He probably has to pay $20 to pee in the morning when he wakes up. $5 gas, $3-5 a square foot...come on now.

You can easily sock away money coming from Sactown to Austin if you keep your spending in check, and don't reallocate money you would save to something else.

You may like Austin. It is the closest thing we have to California. College town, lots of green, hills, nice weather (Dallas gets colder, Houston get MUCH more humid). Kinda wacky liberal sometimes, but mostly normal folks. Austin nightlife is good, not expensive compared to a SF or LA. Descent amount of "culture," not as much maybe as Dallas or Houston but definately strong on the "historical."

Plenty of great drives in an afternoon striking distance, plus lots of cool stuff in the surrounding hill areas you must *drive* to, out 281, 290 etc. Outdoor rec, dance halls, whatever. It is a good area. My wife is from outside Austin so I have spent a bit of time there, besides making the trip during college a few times.

Overcrowded, maybe. Where the money is, there are people. Otherwise everyone would live in the boondocks. Living in the past? You did know that every 80s hair band plays in LA, you just do not hear about it, right?

Someone else has to tell you bout the racing scene.

Hardcorebob admittedly has never lived elsewhere, so I would take his input with a grain of salt. Austin has never taken infrastructure improvements head on, perhaps on purpose. The highway system there is overused, underfunded and generally blows, but they are starting to upgrade into the outlying areas, and their are alternative routes. Come over and sit on the Katy for a while...shoot.

I'd say come out and see for yourself some weekend if you can on a Continental special or something. Rent a rustang and roam around.

2 SLOW

that is wrrrrooonnnggg

Austin's music scene is sick, don't listen to this guy. I'm constantly amazed at some of the people the smaller venues land here.

2 SLOW

i just dont give a ****
standin on the table with the weed fired up
drankin out the bottle, mothafucker crunk
ill pour it in ya mouth, lean back, open up

oooh crunk aint dead bitch, you see the chain
and im the king, fool, ya know my name
party like a rockstar, **** like a pornstar
i dont give a damn, ima buy the whole bar

BigSteele

iTrader: (17)

Everything is in a small area (around the city) which is both good and bad. I like how I can walk around downtown, then drive 20 mins to go cruise the hills by Lake travis. Some of the land in the area is really nice. Traffic blows and the drivers do too.

hardcorebob

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Why would I care about hair metal bands in LA? If that is what you like, go for it man.

I've never that I've ONLY been in Austin my whole life. I've travelled the world on a consistant basis and always kept Austin as my homebase.

That being said, Austin has changed dramatically from a cool hip city to one that has a ton of problems. It is expensive here for what you get: what really is there to do here other than drink/do sometype of outdoor-ish stuff/ check out shitty music? NOTHING, that's what!

I don't know what cool bands people are talking about that they see all the time, but from what I see (going out) and reading (Austin Chronicle is a good way of keeping up with what is going on in the city) it's basically jack ****. Every good band goes to San Antonio/Dallas/Houston and SKIPS Austin for the most part.

The pay for jobs here are usually LOWER than any other city in Texas, I wonder why that is? Before you speak Lo_Jack, I am a professional headhunter for Austin and San Antonio exclusively. I can state for a fact that good paying positions here in Austin are at a premium due to the fact that the city doesn't have the employers or industries to support the degreed population that lives here. Many times people move here and have a nice nest egg to sit on while they look, but once 6 months passes, they move to Dallas or Houston where the market can offer them what they are looking for.

Austin isn't this "great oasis" with nothing but sun-shine and reach-arounds for everyone. It's a overcrowded, expensive, and lacking long term career opportunites with the proper pay structure. Be forwarned!

2 SLOW

balling getting high throwing dollas from the sky
big reefer cloud got in storming inside
foreign outside i'm usually foreign when I drive
a buck sixty feels like you soaring in the sky

lo_jack

iTrader: (27)

Whoa...come on now. I meant Austin isn't the only place "stuck in the 80s/90s" as you label it. That is hardly the point...

Better paying jobs are in demand, yes. SA is the same way compared to HOU and DFW.

I am not disagreeing with you that the pay is lower, but the cost of living is lower as well, especially from what he is bound to be used to coming from CA.

The pay may be lower than a comparable spot elsewhere, but the cost of living is not as high as California, New England or generally other makets where he could actually get a banking/financial job. Austin is a damn sight cheaper than NY, or Dallas close to the action. That's all I meant. It may be more expensive than before but come on, if his other options were staying in Raider Country or go close to the Street, that is a no brainer.

I think you are absolutley right about showing up to Austin and blowing through your savings if you don't have a job set up when you get there. There are less jobs. My friends that live there are all underemployed, coming out of college. But he has a job. If he loses it, he would probably figure out that looking Dallas or Houston (if staying in Texas) would be a wise move.

That's not really what he asked though. He has a job, and he wants to know about lifestyle. Cars and sports. If you want cars and sports, Austin will do that. 55k in Austin has to be light years beyond 37k in Sacramento. You are obviously anti Austin at this point - we get that. But why don't you give him a more complete picture and let him figure out for himself.

No need to try an put me in my place just because I call you out on being overly slanted and not really helpful, even if factually based.