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Old 02-17-2013, 01:11 PM
 
Location: Orange County, CA
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Our family is looking to move out of CA. Taxes are too high, state is bankrupt, too liberal etc. Austin or Dallas, TX and Nashville, TN are on our list to look into. We have 2 young children 2 yrs and 7 weeks. My husband runs his own Internet company from home and I am a stay at home mom. If you can provide any info for cities or areas in/ near Austin we'd appreciate it. Looking to spend under 500k, good school district ( although we'll be looking into private Catholic), near shopping centers, groceries,
Mall/ clothing. Family oriented, parks, recs for kids am family. Any help would be great. Also if you could provide some weather info. What it like in summer and winter? What are the major differences in Aistin and Dallas?
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Old 02-17-2013, 01:27 PM
 
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Our family is looking to move out of CA. Taxes are too high, state is bankrupt, too liberal etc. Austin or Dallas, TX and Nashville, TN are on our list to look into. We have 2 young children 2 yrs and 7 weeks. My husband runs his own Internet company from home and I am a stay at home mom. If you can provide any info for cities or areas in/ near Austin we'd appreciate it. Looking to spend under 500k, good school district ( although we'll be looking into private Catholic), near shopping centers, groceries,
Mall/ clothing. Family oriented, parks, recs for kids am family. Any help would be great. Also if you could provide some weather info. What it like in summer and winter? What are the major differences in Aistin and Dallas?
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for a lot of the things city data is pretty good, just do a comparison with where you live against dallas and austin. We are good if you have specific cultural type questions vs "good school district" which can mean so many things.

For example dallas has some of the top high schools in the country. Austin doesnt have any schools that can top the top dallas schools. Dallas is a big city with big city amenities. Dallas is very materialistic - more like orange county.

Austin is more laid back, there arent any restaurants where you have to dress up (you can go in jeans to just about anywhere). Austin is more intellectual than dallas, but is pretentious in its own austin way.

etc. if you have more specific questions we can probably help.
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