Looking forward to the best move we ever made. Gota get out of the peoples republic of Portland, too expensive, too liberal, high taxes, activist judges, etc....
Go GW!!!!!
I go downtown in peak traffic in forty five minutes.
I have traveled from Bastrop at high traffic time and it is just as bad or worse.
I prefer the DFW area. Lots more to see and do. Plenty of jobs too! Either way, you will love Texas!
When are you moving here? I live southwest of the city and I love it. The city proper is rabidly liberalm but my neighbors for the most part are conservative. Welcome and please join our chapter.
Greetings and welcome from a resident of east Texas.
Your moving into the Texas hill country which is beautiful, no doubt. Look out for those slime ball liberals in Austin!!! No offense to those in Austin that are conservatives, OK? For some reason government cities stink with liberals. ;o)
Smart move! (Although Austin is a tad liberal for my liking; but it still beats hell out of Oregon, which used to be a great place before the earth-shoes and Birkenstock wearers wrecked the place.)
Careful of living in BUDA...the roads have NOT kept up with the building going on around there, and it is heck getting in and out of the town.
Brace yourself for long summers that are absolutely uninhabitable for humans. Been to Texas several times in summer season, they said I'd get used to the brutal heat and humidity, I told um I wouldn't be there that long. Yikes, it was bad!
Good luck!
Welcome and good luck! We tolerate the liberals in Austin as a sort of a conservation effort -- they are becoming an endagered species in Texas. But, we can go to Austin anytime we want and see what liberals look like in their natural habitat. Kind of like going to the zoo.
Note that Congress just passed a law that makes your sales taxes deductible (if your state has no income tax). You will benefit. Save your receipts.
When I made the move from Seattle to Amarillo, this was my first thought.
The demon star of the day is actually the sun. It is there all day long. Clouds are temporary and many days, there are none to be seen. This should be no cause for alarm. Just use plenty of sun block, wear shades and a cowboy hat. Cast away your hooded jacket, as it will identify you as he-who-expects-rain.
Austin is not what it was. If you ever want to capture the flavor of Old Austin before the Yuppies and the quasi-Hollywood types got there, you'd have to visit Asheville, NC.
You'll likely get a good deal on home prices--but be careful. It's a lot easier to buy a house in Texas than to sell one.
If the wind is at you from Austin you will smell frangrances you have never smelled before. You will get sick for a while. You will never get over how liberal the people are.
If only it were Conroe or Tyler.
It's good to see that people are leaving the Democratic People's Republic of Oregon. I was born and grew up in Oregon and now live in Utah.
Portland is a bastion of sodomites, tree-huggers, hippies, gangbangers, feminazis, communists, socialists, and other assorted deranged people.
It's a beautiful state, but there are too many things I can't deal with. Too much rain, can't pump my own gas, have to pay 20 cents more per gallon, 50-55MPH speed limit on the friggin freeway in Portland, confiscatory income tax, the worst traffic.
I've seen the traffic of big cities like Seattle, LA, Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Atlanta, Phoenix, Albuquerque, and Denver and have to say that Portland is the worst. They don't widen freeways because, "if we widen freeways, people will drive more and the problem will be even worse." Their logic is make the traffic so bad that people will live closer to work and use mass transit.
We live in Southern California and will be moving to Austin in two years. My husband grew up there and went to UT. He was just there this past weekend and said he's never seen so many signs for Democrats (Kerry/Edwards in this case) but then they do call Austin the Berkeley of Texas. The farther away you get from campus the more normal it gets.
Austin drawbacks: heat and humidity, Democrap town, strange road system.
Austin benefits: lower gas prices, no income tax (and now you can deduct your sales tax), relatively low housing cost.