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Maybe I don't care about the weirdness as much as you, but I've lived in Austin for the last 8 years and I think it's only getting better. Rent has gone up but it's nothing compared to the bay area or other large tech cities especially considering that salaries are in the same ballpark.

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No, I don't care about the weirdness, really. Weirdness isn't some commodity. Things are just weird or they're not. Maybe that's what makes me weird. But anyways, if you are enjoying Austin more and more as time goes by, you should try living in Los Angeles. You would really like it.

While cool, LA has all the bad parts of Austin exemplified; actually ridiculous housing, insanely bad traffic, a lot more taxes, cool and weird people are greatly outnumbered by douches, a real serious drought, and I can't shoot guns.

I am being totally honest with you when I say that I ran into more and bigger douches in Austin than I ever did in Los Angeles. LA has a reputation, as well, and certainly deserves a lot of it, but also I was surprised that Austin had such a huge population of douchebags. They're everywhere! And mostly from what I understand from friends, the douchebags are the imports. People that bring their anger from Elsewhere.

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