Kid moving to Austin TX

[moturfdog]

My youngest graduated this past May to make her a third generation Bulldog alumnus.
She is currently looking for a place to rent in Austin TX as she is starting her new position there in November. Any suggestions from the pack as to the ins and outs of Austin?
Thanks for your help.

 

[msstatelp1]

I don't have any ins or outs but my son moved there earlier this year and loves it. He had been in Nashville for 7 or 8years before moving.

 

[boatsandhoes]

My youngest graduated this past May to make her a third generation Bulldog alumnus.
She is currently looking for a place to rent in Austin TX as she is starting her new position there in November. Any suggestions from the pack as to the ins and outs of Austin?
Thanks for your help.

I live here, but it’s so big it depends on the part of town. if you narrow it some maybe I can help more. I’d say if you have to go in to work, live close to there because traffic is rough. downtown is all great, expensive (it’s all expensive). the east side is undergoing gentrification so it’s a toss up on safe and cool. East side is very artsy, but more reasonable in cost. west side is establishment/Uber expensive since it’s close to the entertainment area, and wealthier homes. Downtown still has a homeless issue, and it’s dangerous because of that. Burbs on the north side and south sides. South is way more hipster. Tech is growing north and west. Austin is growing in every direction.

hope it helps.

 

[IBleedMaroonDawg]

My youngest graduated this past May to make her a third generation Bulldog alumnus.
She is currently looking for a place to rent in Austin TX as she is starting her new position there in November. Any suggestions from the pack as to the ins and outs of Austin?
Thanks for your help.t

haven't been downtown in ages. Send lots of money and take the time to tell and show her how many countries have gone under due to socialism if she is in downtown Austin. What parts of town is she looking at?

 

[Cantdoitsal]

haven't been downtown in ages. Send lots of money and take the time to tell and show her how many countries have gone under due to socialism if she is in downtown Austin. What parts of town is she looking at?

Austin is the only Goebbels Indoctrination Place in Texas. Too bad she didn't get an offer where I live in Fort Worth. However, I must say, Austin is Beautiful and has a look similar to So-Cal.

 

[was21]

I don't have any ins or outs but my son moved there earlier this year and loves it. He had been in Nashville for 7 or 8years before moving.

Guess younger folk have to be willing to move, but I'd take Nashville over Austin any decade of the century.

 

[onewoof]

Probably Leander or Cedar Park area. Use the toll ways

 

[BulldogBlitz]

My youngest graduated this past May to make her a third generation Bulldog alumnus.
She is currently looking for a place to rent in Austin TX as she is starting her new position there in November. Any suggestions from the pack as to the ins and outs of Austin?
Thanks for your help.

Childless is how to get the most good (and bad) out of Austin. I miss certain foods, but that's it

 

[IBleedMaroonDawg]

thatProbably Leander or Cedar Park area. Use the toll ways

That's where I am, and they are building a bunch of apartrments here that will be ready too.

So we are looking at moving to the Longview area.

Austin is a great place for a young adult but not so much for old farts like me I moved to Leander to get away from the crowd, and they just told us that there are 100,000 people living here now. That's before these new apartment complexes open up. I kid you not there are a ton of apartment buildings that they're about to open that'll probably hold 10,000 people or way more. When you drive in from downtown down at 183 Toll Rd. there's now a new group of buildings on your Horizon that are all apartment complexes about to be finished.

If you can find a place closer to where you're working around town, it's great, but if you don't mind driving down the toll roads, Leander/Cedar Park is awesome, and you can get pretty much anywhere you want to go around Austin easily. You might get your employer to give you a stipend every month for the toll cost. Still not as expensive as it is in downtown Austin out here, either.

There are a large number of young adults living in the Domain areas; she might look at that as well. It is right off of the Mopac Interstate Grade Highway that will get you around through the town as well. There are a plethora of restaurants, small businesses, and apartments..and there is even a Whole Foods at the Domain for people who live in the area

 

[fredgarvin]

My youngest graduated this past May to make her a third generation Bulldog alumnus.
She is currently looking for a place to rent in Austin TX as she is starting her new position there in November. Any suggestions from the pack as to the ins and outs of Austin?
Thanks for your help.

My daughter lived on the East side (7th Ave). It’s affordable (relatively speaking), gentrifying from a working class area and close to downtown. She now lives just north of UT. She loves it once Covid rules were lifted. It seems like half of my friends have a kid in Austin.

 

[SirBarksalot]

Just thank your God she didn’t get a job in NOLA.

 

[Fedexdog]

Traffic is terrible so find a job then a place to live within her acceptable commute.

 

[Mobile Bay]

Franklin BBQ is worth getting there at 5AM for.

 

[harrydawg.sixpack]

My son / MSU grad has been in Austin for 2 years. It ain’t cheap but the money they makes is good / appears to all weigh itself out. Nice one bedroom is $1800 per month.

There is a lot of Hispanic and homeless that Austin has been working to clean up - homeless - it was really bad a few years ago and seems better. Do your homework on areas but it’s a great place to visit and young people seem to love it! It’s a long damn drive I’ll tell ya that! Good luck

 

[Turd Fergusondawg]

Lived in and around Austin since 1998. It sucks, and I'd love to get my family to move back to the Southeast, but I let my kids (11, 13, 16, and 18) get too old and opinionated.

Haven't been downtown in years. There are schizo hobos roaming the streets because the Austin City Council and mayor are commies, and they model city policy after SF (no joke). Hopefully she's not working downtown.

NW Austin is probably way safer than any other part that's close to employers if she's in tech. We've lived in Dripping Springs for the past 12 years. The overcrowding and bidding above asking price by invading Californians drove the cost of living to miserably unsustainable levels.

I would think the only way to enjoy Austin would be as a single, young person. But she should keep her head on a swivel.

 

[Turd Fergusondawg]

My son / MSU grad has been in Austin for 2 years. It ain’t cheap but the money they makes is good / appears to all weigh itself out. Nice one bedroom is $1800 per month.

There is a lot of Hispanic and homeless that Austin has been working to clean up - homeless - it was really bad a few years ago and seems better. Do your homework on areas but it’s a great place to visit and young people seem to love it! It’s a long damn drive I’ll tell ya that! Good luck

They passed a referendum to reinstate the "public camping" ban, to making pitching a tent on sidewalks illegal again. The city council (literal commies, like 'lil Greg Casar), fight against enforcement.

Funny story--flew out of San Antonio on October 2 to go to ATL for work because Austin fares were ~$250 higher. Left my truck in the green lot on airport grounds. Returned Friday, cranked it, and it sounded like a goddamned Harley. Some loser had attempted to steal my catalytic converters and cut the pipe behind the pair on the passenger side. Apparently this is rampant in both Austin and San Antonio.

Saturday morning, I drove into Austin to a Midas on Ben White just past Central Market to get everything welded back together. When I left there and looped under the overpass at Victory to head west, NOT ONLY were there dozens of dirtbag hobo tents, but there was a 30' full-on buffet in progress with a bunch of drugged-out zombies holding styrofoam plates. Trash everywhere. I assume this was probably set up by Sunrise Church nearby, who are notorious violent hobo enablers.

Anyway--the insanity in Austin hasn't stopped. Commies are in full control of Austin city policy. My daughter is 16. I don't want her living anywhere near there when she leaves the house.

Austin isn't anything like it was even 10 years ago.

 

[Turd Fergusondawg]

Childless is how to get the most good (and bad) out of Austin. I miss certain foods, but that's it

Your "been there, done that" factor is high. I 100% sympathize. Austin's unrecognizable from what it was. It's also flat out unsafe downtown at night.

 

[Trojanbulldog19]

Yeah I think if we could both get the jobs we want in Texas we would go to central or east Texas. But it's being over ran by Californians.

They passed a referendum to reinstate the "public camping" ban, to making pitching a tent on sidewalks illegal again. The city council (literal commies, like 'lil Greg Casar), fight against enforcement.

Funny story--flew out of San Antonio on October 2 to go to ATL for work because Austin fares were ~$250 higher. Left my truck in the green lot on airport grounds. Returned Friday, cranked it, and it sounded like a goddamned Harley. Some loser had attempted to steal my catalytic converters and cut the pipe behind the pair on the passenger side. Apparently this is rampant in both Austin and San Antonio.

Saturday morning, I drove into Austin to a Midas on Ben White just past Central Market to get everything welded back together. When I left there and looped under the overpass at Victory to head west, NOT ONLY were there dozens of dirtbag hobo tents, but there was a 30' full-on buffet in progress with a bunch of drugged-out zombies holding styrofoam plates. Trash everywhere. I assume this was probably set up by Sunrise Church nearby, who are notorious violent hobo enablers.

Anyway--the insanity in Austin hasn't stopped. Commies are in full control of Austin city policy. My daughter is 16. I don't want her living anywhere near there when she leaves the house.

Austin isn't anything like it was even 10 years ago.

the commies are like parasites ruin one place and go to the next

 

[Turd Fergusondawg]

Yeah I think if we could both get the jobs we want in Texas we would go to central or east Texas. But it's being over ran by Californians.

the commies are like parasites ruin one place and go to the next

I've met two kinds of Calis: the edgy patriot types who pretend to be conservative while they vote YES on park and "for the children!" school bonds, not realizing there's no brakes on the Texas property tax system--no prop 13, and the unrepentant progs who are either just following jobs or following the "let's move to Texas!" fad and get here and post **** about how In-N-Out beats Whataburger and how Beeto should be governor.

GO BACK, the both of you.

Rick Perry originally solicited California companies to relocate to Texas to save operating costs AND to employ Texans. He didn't realize they'd bring their own people. It sucks. Calis doubled our housing prices (and spiked our taxes) doing their mindless bidding above asking price thing all during 2021. That didn't exist here before.

I could do just about any small East Texas town going NE along US 79. But Calis attacked those towns, too, raising prices to the point they no longer seem like a value. At this point I'd just a soon move to Huntsville, AL or return to Starkville.

 

[Trojanbulldog19]

I've met two kinds of Calis: the edgy patriot types who pretend to be conservative while they vote YES on park and "for the children!" school bonds, not realizing there's no brakes on the Texas property tax system--no prop 13, and the unrepentant progs who are either just following jobs or following the "let's move to Texas!" fad and get here and post **** about how In-N-Out beats Whataburger and how Beeto should be governor.

GO BACK, the both of you.

Rick Perry originally solicited California companies to relocate to Texas to save operating costs AND to employ Texans. He didn't realize they'd bring their own people. It sucks. Calis doubled our housing prices (and spiked our taxes) doing their mindless bidding above asking price thing all during 2021. That didn't exist here before.

I could do just about any small East Texas town going NE along US 79. But Calis attacked those towns, too, raising prices to the point they no longer seem like a value. At this point I'd just a soon move to Huntsville, AL or return to Starkville.

Yeah because of that I'll doubt we try to go back to Texas. Wife was there at one time working and I spent a lot of time there. But I imagine we will stay coastal south east anywhere from LA-FL.

 

[goldentrianglefoodie]

I've lived in both and the food scene is far superior in Starkville.

 

[Turd Fergusondawg]

I've lived in both and the food scene is far superior in Starkville.

Definitely fewer violent hobos with razors in Starkville.

 

[goldentrianglefoodie]

Definitely fewer violent hobos with razors in Starkville.

And piles of human excrement as well. Get it together hobos of Starkville!

 

[IBleedMaroonDawg]

They passed a referendum to reinstate the "public camping" ban, to making pitching a tent on sidewalks illegal again. The city council (literal commies, like 'lil Greg Casar), fight against enforcement.

Anyway--the insanity in Austin hasn't stopped. Commies are in full control of Austin city policy. My daughter is 16. I don't want her living anywhere near there when she leaves the house.

Austin isn't anything like it was even 10 years ago.

We moved initially moved near the Steiner Ranch area in 2007, and the Austin area was still fun. It's that time you can pretty much find a way to do anything you wanted to have a good time as long as you didn't invade their drum circles. Traffic was murder and there was an immediate need for highway projects with the present population. Their solution? ignore it and spend money on the socialist pet prop for the next election while doubling our taxes. I had to leave when they more than doubled my property taxes without giving me any improvements that I could see or use. We moved NW to Leander, then so did everyone else. The only improvements they are making are a Tollway extension and four gargantuan apartment developments, creating several new housing developments, and building more commercial buildings as fast as they can. I'm giving up and looking at the area NE of here near Tyler and Longview where I can still moderate and small size towns that don't have these huge flocks of Calis and Bluer State idiots and concrete. We used to make fun of Dallas for its large spans of concrete only to do the same to a city that was fun.

 

[Turd Fergusondawg]

We moved initially moved near the Steiner Ranch area in 2007, and the Austin area was still fun. It's that time you can pretty much find a way to do anything you wanted to have a good time as long as you didn't invade their drum circles. Traffic was murder and there was an immediate need for highway projects with the present population. Their solution? ignore it and spend money on the socialist pet prop for the next election while doubling our taxes. I had to leave when they more than doubled my property taxes without giving me any improvements that I could see or use. We moved NW to Leander, then so did everyone else. The only improvements they are making are a Tollway extension and four gargantuan apartment developments, creating several new housing developments, and building more commercial buildings as fast as they can. I'm giving up and looking at the area NE of here near Tyler and Longview where I can still moderate and small size towns that don't have these huge flocks of Calis and Bluer State idiots and concrete. We used to make fun of Dallas for its large spans of concrete only to do the same to a city that was fun.

High-density housing marks the end of any decent place. There are somehow now at least six bigass apartment complexes in Dripping Springs. All of the apartment dwellers vote against the interests of the people who lived here before--ranchers and folks on acreage in more sparse settings.

 

[hdogg]

It looks like I'm late to the party on this but thought I'd reply anyway. Everything everyone has said is true, both good and bad. I've been here since 2000 and am 49 years old now, live in Northwest Austin (near 183/Spicewood if anyone wants to come visit).

I will add this : I'm not sure if there is anywhere I'd rather live, so we are staying here for a while, despite not enjoying the town as much as we did when we were younger.
And for your daughter moving here, I think that's the point - she will LOVE it here since she is younger and will be new to the town, and won't be able to complain like us old folks about how it's "not like it used to be".

Some of this may have already been said but :
For sure live closer to work as possible. Not sure when she'll be able to save up the $500k to buy a starter home, so renting will be a reality for a while. But also look for the intangibles, like an apartment near green-space if possible. There is a lot of outdoor activity here, which is quite different from Jackson (where I lived for most of my life until here).
East side is the new "cool" area, lot's of new stuff there.
Central Austin around 45th/Lamar is another decent area. Also the "Mueller" development off old Airport road is a newer area w/ cool stuff.
Northwest where I live is typically where families move. But there is also the Domain on the North side of town that some young adults enjoy.

I always preferred dive bars and pubs when I was younger, but most of the new stuff going is nicer and more $$$. You have to look hard to find low-$ bars here now, but I know most girls (like my wife and daughter) prefer the "nicer" places to hang out.

Feel free to PM me, if that's still a thing.
Good luck to your daughter!

 

[FloodDawg]

Lived in Austin 20 years, but recently left to get closer to family. As I’ve gotten older the monthlong streaks of 100+ wear on you, but it’s a great place. Different than it used to be, more corporate, maybe a little less fun as a result. I lived in the Domain area before the Domain was built. If you can afford it, it’s a great part of town, pretty accessible, lots of restaurants but rush hours suck and seem to start earlier than ever without letting up.

 

[Drebin]

My youngest graduated this past May to make her a third generation Bulldog alumnus.
She is currently looking for a place to rent in Austin TX as she is starting her new position there in November. Any suggestions from the pack as to the ins and outs of Austin?
Thanks for your help.

My biggest issues with Austin:

- The weather sucks. Summers, particularly, are miserable.
- Traffic problems are insane and not correctable. The city has outgrown the infrastructure by a large margin.
- Goes without saying, but the politics in that town sucks. Austin is a lot closer to cali politics than texas politics.

That said, I've stayed in the domain area a lot for work and it's not a bad area. If you are young and don't have children it can be a cool place.

If you like tex mex, there are a ton of great places to eat.

 

[OG Goat Holder]

Stop the brain drain. Keep her in MS. Or at least in one of the cities surrounding that will allow Starkville to be readily accessible (Memphis, Huntsville, Birmingham).

 

[moturfdog]

Thanks all for the responses, both good and bad. She just returned from an apartment search mission and is fully aware of the cost problems as I call them. Young, single and excited to be moving to Austin. We are from Missouri so the brain drain, as some say, on Starkvegas was inevitable. Thanks Turd, Hdogg, Drebin and others, all opinions matter just some smell worse than others.