My Dad spent several months (or weeks?) training for a job and finally they stuck him in Houston. Of course I came with. We lived several places in Houston. Then my mom's brothers moved to Dallas and my Dad's business partner declared bankruptcy, causing the business to declare bankruptcy, causing my dad to declare bankruptcy. So, with nothing holding them in Houston, they moved to the Dallas area to be near relatives. While I was away at college (grr).
I applied to three grad schools. #1 and #2 were out of state and rejected me. #3 was in Austin, accepted me, and gave me a fellowship. Plus, my best friend from high school moved from Houston to Austin at that time, so the choice seemed clear.
I met a lot of cool people in grad school (mostly not from Texas, surprisingly to me--Oregon, Massachusetts, Maryland, Illinois, Georgia, you know, regular people), and I've liked Austin best out of all the places I've lived. It has winters that are very easy to deal with (basically, they are like spring for you guys--either warm enough not to need a coat or sunny with no snow or virtually no snow at all or both). Plus there are a lot of educated people and liberals, unlike most places in the US with warm weather. And it's a college town, and though we don't have nearly as many colleges as Boston, the big college where I work has an awesome library and is huge enough to still have lots of good activities.
I did follow a boyfriend to Atlanta, but when we broke up, I came back to Austin where about half of my friends from grad school stayed after graduation.
I also love the wildflowers here, but I hate the gun culture and the football culture and being surrounded by all the other Texas counties. Oh, I do like the lack of state income tax, the way you don't really have to worry about probate (of wills), and a few other Libertarian-esque things from the olden cowboy/independence types.
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My Dad spent several months (or weeks?) training for a job and finally they stuck him in Houston. Of course I came with. We lived several places in Houston. Then my mom's brothers moved to Dallas and my Dad's business partner declared bankruptcy, causing the business to declare bankruptcy, causing my dad to declare bankruptcy. So, with nothing holding them in Houston, they moved to the Dallas area to be near relatives. While I was away at college (grr).
I applied to three grad schools. #1 and #2 were out of state and rejected me. #3 was in Austin, accepted me, and gave me a fellowship. Plus, my best friend from high school moved from Houston to Austin at that time, so the choice seemed clear.
I met a lot of cool people in grad school (mostly not from Texas, surprisingly to me--Oregon, Massachusetts, Maryland, Illinois, Georgia, you know, regular people), and I've liked Austin best out of all the places I've lived. It has winters that are very easy to deal with (basically, they are like spring for you guys--either warm enough not to need a coat or sunny with no snow or virtually no snow at all or both). Plus there are a lot of educated people and liberals, unlike most places in the US with warm weather. And it's a college town, and though we don't have nearly as many colleges as Boston, the big college where I work has an awesome library and is huge enough to still have lots of good activities.
I did follow a boyfriend to Atlanta, but when we broke up, I came back to Austin where about half of my friends from grad school stayed after graduation.
I also love the wildflowers here, but I hate the gun culture and the football culture and being surrounded by all the other Texas counties. Oh, I do like the lack of state income tax, the way you don't really have to worry about probate (of wills), and a few other Libertarian-esque things from the olden cowboy/independence types.
Maybe more than you wanted to know, maybe not!