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I used to live in California, and now live in Austin.

Have to agree w/ other commenter, there's actually a pretty surprising overlap in personality types between the two places. Maybe Austin skews a little younger (both biologically and socially).

However... Texas is for materialists, hands down. You don't go there for natural splendor or the climate. The beach is a turd, and you're surrounded by 500 miles of polarized right wing fundamentalists in every direction. But it's centrally located! Which means you will be flying/renting a car to leave town, period.

California is for people who value quality of life, and are willing to pay every penny they have now and forever, to approach it, to the point that they have no quality.

After these and other living arrangements, I'm done with population centers. Give me a rail connected village please.

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"You don't go to Texas for natural splendor" sounds exactly like what a California transplant to Austin would say because they can't ride their bike to the Hill Country, the pine forests of East Texas, or the Trinity River in North Texas.

As an East Texas native who's now in California... sorry, Texas has some pretty vistas, but there's no comparison to the Sierras and California Coast.

God, I miss good Mexican food and TexMex though.

Never said Texas surpassed California in the nature department, but to claim Texas is devoid of natural beauty in such a blase fashion is just ignorant, methinks.

Pretty much. I'm in Fredericksburg. There are other places and they all have their positive virtues, but not much better IME.

Austin really isn't representative of, well, nearly anywhere else in Texas.

This has good and bad aspects.

Dallas is trying (and failing) to emulate Austin right now in many ways.

For what it's worth, Austin is one of the most liberal places in texas. I don't think its a good comparison.

Sounds like you have not explored Texas enough.

- your friends at the Texas Board of Tourism

You don't go there for natural splendor or the climate.

Said like somebody who's never watched a thunderstorm roll in over the plain.

The beach is a turd, and you're surrounded by 500 miles of polarized right wing fundamentalists in every direction.

You go to church much? How much time have you spent actually in small towns, chatting up folks?

People like you are why Austin sucks: cookie-cutter upper-middle-class self-righteous pricks who think they've moved to the mecca of cool and haven't realized that they're chasing the same sort of vapid materialist views of self-worth they decry so much.

Texas is for people who know how to make a living, form communities, and soldier on.

ha, wow, living up to your handle! There's some Texas hospitality! Knives out!

For certain values of cool, Austin IS the mecca, but I have no use for it in my life.

You can soldier on through the allergies, drought, heat, toll roads, and endless expanses of private property, I'm moving on.

To your latter remarks. That just sounds like "life" to me. For instance, if you were moving on to, say, California, I'd tell you to enjoy the astronomical cost of living, relentless taxation, real drought issues(most of Texas is drought free as of this year), catastrophic earthquakes, mudslides, wildfires...

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