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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]His pros:
Property taxes were .5% lower than CA

His cons:
His base water bill is $100 with zero usage and he claimed it would have been in the high 100s for landscapes
Everything is expensive - restaurants, pool maintenance, repair men
Summer heat 
Bad weather and home damage
No public spaces to go - ex driving 90 minutes to get to a outdoorsy area
No natural resources - mountains, rivers, falls etc in a 7-hour radius
He drove 40 minutes for horrible Indian food
No school choice
No diverse
Poor tech - Austin has no Uber or Lyft
Urge to build bigger and better + sprawl means it was 'difficult' to sell his house for the price he wanted

He moved back to the Bay Area.[/quote]

Sigh. This one guy, getting all this publicity for one article. Nearly three quarters of a million people have moved from California to Texas in the past 10 years, me being one of them. Don't let this dude paint the only picture: The vast majority of us are VERY happy with our decision, and wouldn't dream of going back to Cali. And this guy is straight up lying about the lack of diversity, food choices and "no mountains and rivers w/in 7 hours." There's plenty of hiking trails right in Austin, and Big Bend is like a 4-hour drive. The thing he doesn't get is, most of us didn't move here to make Texas into California. We don't want to "change" it. We left the People's Republic for a reason. [/quote]

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