Looking to make a move to Texas. Lots of tech jobs down there along with little snow. Anybody got anything good or bad to say?
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Traffic sucks in Dallas, Houston and Austin.
It’s basically just desert minus far east side
And the cost of living has gone through the roof.
Have decent gun laws though.
They might not get snow, but they sure in hell get ice storms.
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If you can avoid the local and state (stupid) politics, Texas is quite nice. Austin, D/FW, and Houston are quite “lively”, but expensive to live there. What most people do is move to the outlying towns and commute. From what I have seen Austin is a major hub of Tech.
If you can pick up a little of Spanish if you don’t already speak it. It makes things a bit easier. Trust me…
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this is like saying Bad food sucks, like yeahhh thats how its supposed to be.
Texas is alright, tons of food diversity in Texas Triangle. Lots of baddies downtown but I guess my main gripe is it is so hot in the summer and housing is going so high up and with terrible apartment buildings being built… you either take a big loss getting a house, or live in one of those terrible paper mache apartments.
Where are you moving from? You mention snow, so I’m guessing it’s somewhere that gets it on the regular.
The biggest adjustment for you will be July, August, and September when it’s going to be hot as balls and something that you must experience to fully understand … unless you’re a veteran who’s been to the sandbox, in which case you’ve seen worse. It’s uncomfortable, but manageable, especially if you don’t try to move too quickly.
And don’t throw out your winter coat. It won’t get as cold, or for as long, but as Boomerjoe says, we get nasty ice storms. About once a year on average. Honest-to-God snow does happen about once every ten years or so, but count on the city shutting down for a day or two each winter. Some years it’s not so horrible because there are sand trucks, and they do try to treat the overpasses, but plows? Who buys plows if you only need them one day out of a year?
I can only speak to the Dallas/Fort Worth area, but we have a lot of food diversity. Whatever you can think of, there’s at least one restaurant for it somewhere in the Metroplex. There’s a really big Vietnamese community in Arlington, and about a half dozen really good Vietnamese restaurants, and that’s just one example.
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Mild winters, neat gun laws, fair cost of living/quality of life ratio (though it’s somewhat closing), decent food, and more diverse than you think.
Cities aren’t walkable, summers are often unbearably hot, ice storms, independent power grid, and mid sports teams (we did get a World Series win, tho).
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Good BBQ and Mexican restaurants.
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College Station is underappreciated. Great local schools, major university town, more tech jobs than they can fill.
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I didnt realize we were at formal war with the political parties, to the point of shooting someone for different views.
But that does sound like a very Texas thing.
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I live in Colorado and we have a lot of people moving here from Texas and they must not be sending their best because they’re some of the most awful people I’ve ever met.
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San Antonio news just did an article on how tech jobs are moving out of TX.
This cringe zoomer logic.
I like my car and don’t want to walk to things i need.
I don’t get the point of “gun laws either”
You can own a gun in any state, if the good thing is the ability to burn thousands of dollars on something you’ll never use on anything but target practice then how is that a good thing versus something like California having if you work over 8 hours you get time and a half.
Traffic sucks in general unless you are in a small town.
Texas drivers are a different breed of bad. The level of self induced traffic is insane lol.
I wish we got snow. Would definitely beat the desert levels of heat.
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I can tell you don’t live in Texas.
Understatement of the Century.
Couple of years back in February, we got a LOT of snow here in the Texas Hill County, People lost their collective minds (still nuts now in my opinion), and a bonus a good chunk of the power grid failed. The local stations was calling it “Snowpoclypse”
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Texas never whispers
Some of the DFW suburbs are really nice and have actually been stealing business from Dallas proper (i.e. Frisco). There are also nice suburbs around Houston like the Woodlands. A lot of people have been moving to Texas lately though. It’s still going to be cheaper than many places in the US but don’t expect it to be like it was 10 years ago. Weatherwise, you can always expect it to be hot. In my time there, we hit a record number of days over 100 degrees. It also snowed every year I lived there. Texas is a big state though, so just because it’s snowing in Lubbock does not mean it will snow in Houston.
I know very little about it but what I can remember is many of the homes have great curb appeal and I like 100% of the (seven) people I know from there.
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Nothing truer can be said.
Texas is great. But cost of living has gone up. Californeans and overall greed has made it from highly affordable to being a wage slave. If u want cost of living (with hopefully luck at some good paying job) states like Ohio or Kentucky are good choices. And decent amount to do near college towns
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Republicons will use any chance to talk about California
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