Which city in the triangle...or another city altogether? (Austin: home, high school)

[TexasHorseLady]

Originally Posted by Austin97

texas is probably the wrong place. The state level will continue to attack transgender rights. Any place affordable will probably not be that accepting.

Hmmm. I have friends/clients who moved here from the Northwest, who were two women married to each other at the time and then one of then made the move to transgender after they moved here. They don't seem to have a problem, and they live in Elgin (though a lot of their socializing/private school for their kid is in Austin). In fact, they talk about how they had certain stereotypes and were a bit worried about making the move to Austin because of those and got here and it took about a day for them to figure out that those were stereotypes and not the reality they would experience here.

Neither is a teacher in a public school, however, though one teaches voice privately.

[10scoachrick]

I know there are a ton of threads out there about which city to move to in the triangle


Been here nine years and never heard of a "triangle" in Texas. I almost moved to the Research Triangle area of North Carolina back in the '80s; but didn't know we had one here in Texas.

[blakely]

Austin isn't low cost, but St. Stephen's Episcopal is a very open-minded school. Being transgender would be a non-issue, or even celebrated. Several teachers live on campus because of the school's boarding population, so that would help with cost of living. But I think may be a waitlist among staff for campus housing.

[pop251808]

Originally Posted by TexasHorseLady

Hmmm. I have friends/clients who moved here from the Northwest, who were two women married to each other at the time and then one of then made the move to transgender after they moved here. They don't seem to have a problem, and they live in Elgin (though a lot of their socializing/private school for their kid is in Austin). In fact, they talk about how they had certain stereotypes and were a bit worried about making the move to Austin because of those and got here and it took about a day for them to figure out that those were stereotypes and not the reality they would experience here.

Neither is a teacher in a public school, however, though one teaches voice privately.

Sometimes you have to face the reality that Texas is just plain wrong on many issues, and our fearless leaders have made a lot of hay for themselves getting ignorant and fearful Texans to waste their time and votes on stuff that just doesn't matter. Like the anti-transgender bathroom bill that occupied so much of the legislature's time that they didn't get important work done such as public school funding.

Here's just one background article on the topic. There are many others:https://www.austinchronicle.com/news...state-attacks/

PS, When I travel out of state and out of the country, I get tired of having to explain to others "it's not really as bad as it looks," etc. We Texans have to look at ourselves in the mirror and admit we're a bunch of dumb bunnies on the wrong side of many important social issues, I'm sorry to say.

[TexasHorseLady]

Originally Posted by 10scoachrick

I know there are a ton of threads out there about which city to move to in the triangle


Been here nine years and never heard of a "triangle" in Texas. I almost moved to the Research Triangle area of North Carolina back in the '80s; but didn't know we had one here in Texas.

This, too. I thought originally that the OP had put it in the wrong forum and intended it for the North Carolina forum.

[gabetx]

Originally Posted by 10scoachrick

I know there are a ton of threads out there about which city to move to in the triangle:

You have never heard of the Texas Triangle? The area that encompasses DFW, Austin, SA, Houston, back up to DFW which roughly makes a triangle and encompasses nearly 20,000,000 people.

Originally Posted by jalext

Gabetx, thank you. I don't mind living in a conservative area, and I have nothing against conservatives. Some are pretty socially liberal. It depends on the person. It's work that I'm worried about. I just don't want to live in fear of losing my job if someone happens to find out for some reason. Could you give me an estimate of how long a commute that might be (from the areas you mentioned)? I'd appreciate it.

What would be nice about living and working in these areas is that you will be less effected by rush hour commute and wont have to venture much into Austin itself, aside from the east side maybe. From any one of these suburbs to another you are looking at a commute as short as 5 minutes, assuming you live and work in the same suburb, or one up to 35 minutes, assuming you live in the furthest suburb to the furthest school district, (Del Valle to Pflugerville, vice versa).

Other affordable areas I would recommend checking out that are in suburban Austin are Kyle, which has a large ISD in Kyle/ Buda, (Hays ISD), Jarrell, (getting extremely far north), and Lockhart.

[TexasHorseLady]

Originally Posted by gabetx

You have never heard of the Texas Triangle? The area that encompasses DFW, Austin, SA, Houston, back up to DFW which roughly makes a triangle and encompasses nearly 20,000,000 people.



What would be nice about living and working in these areas is that you will be less effected by rush hour commute and wont have to venture much into Austin itself, aside from the east side maybe. From any one of these suburbs to another you are looking at a commute as short as 5 minutes, assuming you live and work in the same suburb, or one up to 35 minutes, assuming you live in the furthest suburb to the furthest school district, (Del Valle to Pflugerville, vice versa).

Other affordable areas I would recommend checking out that are in suburban Austin are Kyle, which has a large ISD in Kyle/ Buda, (Hays ISD), Jarrell, (getting extremely far north), and Lockhart.

Nope, not in my 67 years of living in Texas (East Texas, DFW area, and Central Texas, with friends and family in San Antonio and Houston).

[10scoachrick]

Originally Posted by gabetx

You have never heard of the Texas Triangle? The area that encompasses DFW, Austin, SA, Houston, back up to DFW which roughly makes a triangle and encompasses nearly 20,000,000 people.


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OH...you mean the Texaplex???????????

Good golly, statisticians have WAY too much time on their hands. Lumping 20 million people from such diverse cities into a blob the size of Georgia and giving it a name?

[wildflower_FL]

I've heard of the Dallas-San Antonio-Houston triangle in the story of how Southwest airline was created. Never heard of it used outside of drawing it on a cocktail napkin.

[pop251808]

Originally Posted by 10scoachrick

OH...you mean the Texaplex???????????

Good golly, statisticians have WAY too much time on their hands. Lumping 20 million people from such diverse cities into a blob the size of Georgia and giving it a name?

It's where the job growth and innovation happens, speaking generally. Texas outside of that area is, well, just Texas.