Why choose Austin??? Here's why!!! (Dallas, Atlanta: apartments, renting, crime)

[Rose Red]

Great Post Borikwa! Thanks for writing it! You get used to the multiple street names...

Also, Scongress has admitted to living in Austin for 18 months.

[shaxs]

I visited for 4 days in early July. I loved the U turn things. Those were awesome!

[TexasHorseLady]

I've lived in the area for almost 40 years. I'm not awestruck with it any longer (just as I love my husband dearly but have come to see him more realistically over the almost-as-many-years we've been married), but I do appreciate the city and the area and the positive things of it. scongress1234 really can't seem to abide (or take seriously) that others have a different, more positive viewpoint of Austin,newcomers or long-timers, so I wouldn't take his pooh-poohing of your experience too seriously.

Welcome to Austin! You're just the kind of newcomer we appreciate - someone who loves the city for what it is.

[south side chap]

Borikwa,

First of all, thanks. Sometimes reading this forum is hard work for recent arrivals like yours truly and I sometimes wonder why I still do. Your post was a reminder of much that is fab about Austin. I moved here from London about a year ago and, despite the fact that you cannot sensibly compare the two, I know where I'd rather live and its not London (which I still adore I should add).

I should ask though, being a Copper (ex or otherwise) and all, are you not ethically bound to hand yourself in for running traffic lights? Just asking!

[scongress1234]

Originally Posted by Rose Red

Great Post Borikwa! Thanks for writing it! You get used to the multiple street names...

Also, Scongress has admitted to living in Austin for 18 months.

Sounds like the end of those Dragnet TV shows....

Defendent has admitted to living in Austin for 18 months...

Where's Jack Webb when you need him?

[jread]

I've been in Austin for 8-years and it still has not "worn off" for me. I do get complacent and get tired of the hot weather sometimes, but all it takes is a visit to another place to make me run screaming back to Austin. It seems that as soon as I start to take it for granted, I will experience something that makes me fall in love with it all over again. In fact, it's very rare that I leave the city limits. I can handle about a week away once a year or so, but that's about it.

There are still many places I've never been and I am definitely open to the possibility that I may find somewhere else that calls to me, but so far I have not been anywhere that can come close to the total package that Austin offers. There is really no other city quite like it.

[scongress1234]

Originally Posted by jread

I've been in Austin for 8-years and it still has not "worn off" for me. I do get complacent and get tired of the hot weather sometimes, but all it takes is a visit to another place to make me run screaming back to Austin. It seems that as soon as I start to take it for granted, I will experience something that makes me fall in love with it all over again. In fact, it's very rare that I leave the city limits. I can handle about a week away once a year or so, but that's about it.

There are still many places I've never been and I am definitely open to the possibility that I may find somewhere else that calls to me, but so far I have not been anywhere that can come close to the total package that Austin offers. There is really no other city quite like it.

No....only thing that could ruin it would be too many people...getting to that point now.....you can ruin anyplace with overcrowding...even Austin.

[Mack wild]

Originally Posted by scongress1234

No....only thing that could ruin it would be too many people...getting to that point now.....you can ruin anyplace with overcrowding...even Austin.

Oh thank god -- there IS a method to your madness -- and here I was just thinking you were a bitter negative person -- when the truth is that your just trying to keep the population down in Austin.

[AustinTexan]

It's not just natives complaining about all the people moving here. Once you move here, you'll want to preserve Austin for everything it has to offer and the first thing ruining it all is the overcrowding. I have a neighbor from San Francisco who is constantly bashing all the Californians coming here......obviously, we're getting along very well.

[borikwa69]

No South Side Chap I will NEVER bust myself......lol

I can understand overcrowding issues that some of you bring up. I live in that exact situation now of "constant" urbinization. Once I do move there I will more than likely agree with wanting to preserve the "small town" feel although I would be "adding" to the census increase....lol

What shocks me is the news that you, scongress, have ONLY been in Austin for only 18 months yet you pass off your MULTIPLE negative opinions as tho you were a long time resident/native. Cmon. 18 months??? You can't possibly know anyting useful about Austin. Your still a rookie out there.....lol.

I have read of several people who have been there more than 3 years that are STILL "discovering" Austin. You, my friend, have solidified yourself as a JOKE. When I told you about 3 weeks ago to LEARN your city before you replied to my posts I now see how prophetic I was being.

However, to the other Austinites who have responded, I really do apprectiate your replies. Your entire city is absolutely perfect for the lifestyle that my family and I are seeking and we can not wait to be a part of it. If I offended anyone by bashing scongress that was NOT my intent (he offending anyone part of it) but in light of the other replies he has made to my posts its really disheartening when someone with little or no legitimate information about a subjects passes themselves off as an "authority."

Anyway. we can't wait to be your neighbors!!!