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Old 03-27-2008, 03:53 PM
 
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Dallas is glitzy but not all of it is stressful.

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Austin is such a laid-back lifestyle sort of city, whereas Dallas seemed stressful and glitzy to me. Maybe it was just the part of the city that I was in, but it seemed more like LA... I wouldn't want to live that 24/7.
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Old 03-27-2008, 03:55 PM
 
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Because people from Austin only want to be right. They want to point out how Austin is so amazing and so liberal. I've been there for almost a year and it really doesn't scream "liberal" to me. It is just a neutral/laid back/bland town.

They don't want to consider reality. Dallas has a very large liberal and democratic community. The people who consider themselves to be "republican" are not the hardcore/judgemental ones that you sometimes hear about. People are too busy working and raising a family to care about homosexuality and other liberal social issues.

I don't know about Houston.


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Well, I'm mainly concerned about the diversity and tendencies toward liberalism. I wonder why I kept hearing that Austin is the MOST liberal city in all of Texas, if Houston, and Dallas is just as such...?
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Old 03-27-2008, 08:59 PM
 
Location: Hutto, Tx
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Houston seems to have a similar laid back vibe, except it's a very large city. Small example is people dress up to go to the grocery store in Dallas (makeup, hair, heels, etc), and in Houston, like Austin, you see people mainly with no makeup, in shorts and sandals (except maybe in the Galleria area). When I was just out of high school a friend and I used to think it was the funnest thing in the world to go to the DQ on a Saturday morning, still in pajamas, to get blizzards and even more amazing that noone really even gave us a second look for doing it, and that was in League City.
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Old 03-28-2008, 07:55 AM
 
Location: Austin 'burbs
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I saw SEVEN YEAR OLDS in high heeled boots and shopping in Versace, and actually LOOKING at the clothes like they wanted to buy it - in Dallas. Every car seemed to be a Mercedes, BMW, and similar.... too stressful to keep up with that!!
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Old 03-28-2008, 08:34 AM
 
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I saw SEVEN YEAR OLDS in high heeled boots and shopping in Versace, and actually LOOKING at the clothes like they wanted to buy it - in Dallas. Every car seemed to be a Mercedes, BMW, and similar.... too stressful to keep up with that!!
Don't be fooled. Dallas is the town full of guys working at cell phone stores for $12/hr but are driving Porsches. It's all about appearances there. That's why I say the two favorites passtimes in DFW are shopping and plastic surgery.
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Old 03-28-2008, 11:23 AM
 
Location: Detroit
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Well, there's plenty of that here in Detroit. I don't care about appearances, so that "stress" would not affect me.
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Old 03-28-2008, 11:51 AM
 
Location: Austin 'burbs
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My comment shouldn't have been taken so literally - I don't care about appearances either, as anyone who knows me would vouch and I definitely don't do the "keeping up with the jone's" type thing... but I have 3 young children, and I wouldn't prefer to raise my children in that sort of environment. I appreciate the live and let live, laid back lifestyle in Austin and I think it's perfect for a family.... which may or may not affect you either.
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Old 06-30-2008, 02:05 PM
 
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I just was wondering why I got 0 responses... I was starting to feel unliked...lmao

My friend also said that there was a huge frog and cricket problem in Austin at certain times of the year. Considering we're not buying a house, I was wondering what that entailed exactly? I mean, is it like the plague and frogs and crickets are just roaming the streets covering everything..?
I was doing a search for something else and saw this post. Everyone always mentions scorpions and fire ants. I have to say that those are a non issue for me. But the crickets are absolutely disgusting. Think going to your favorite store at night and there literally being almost a seething carpet of jumping crickets mixed in with all the smashed ones at the entrance. It is absolutely gross.

I once stopped at a gas station on the way from houston and the pavement was kind of dirty I got out and started pumping the gas and noticed that the dirt was actually hundreds of thousands of those flying beetles. Everywhere you stepped you were crunching beetles and they kept flying into me.
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