How to get Sold on Austin in 3 days or less

[eichlerfan]

Originally Posted by ///MD

We are a young 30s couple with a 9mo child that currently live in the Bay Area (San Jose, CA). I am a physician finishing up residency training and my wife is a software developer.

While we both love the bay area, we are looking for a change of pace, a different place to live and work and raise our child.

One of the places we are absolutely considering is Austin. We've both been through the city briefly for work things in the past, but have planned a 3 day trip at the end of the month especially to evaluate it as a place to live.

I'm hoping that the kind people on this forum may be able to point us in some directions on things to see/do to evaluate the city as a place to live so that we can make a best attempt at an early assessment within our 3 day trip (meaning, whether we should be planning more return trips amidst my applying for jobs)

Things we like: Outdoor activities, hiking, photography. Definitely eating and cooking good food. We are suburban dwellers, but like access to city life. Lean left but don't consider ourselves liberal, like modern contemporary design.

Our home base for our adventure is the Westin at the Domain, because it had a great deal when I booked the trip.

Thanks in advance!

It looks like you have been given some good suggestions. I just wanted to chime in because we just sold our home in San Jose and will be moving to Austin next month. For us it was a job relocation and we are very excited about our move. While San Jose was a nice place to raise a family (we lived in Willow Glen), we are very excited about our new adventure. Hope you find what you are looking for in Austin.