Lynn, thanks for the support. I see your from Texas. I was just in Austin checking it out as a potential place to move to. It has a great vibe but it was missing something like mountains, beach, or some geographic diversity to give it some color. Its still on the table but I am also considering Boulder, Colorado. Anyway, how do you like living in Texas?
Since you asked, and it's your thread, I won't consider my reply a hijack.
As you may know, Cedar Park is a suburb of Austin. We like it OK, but we're not really Austinites. Not into the live music scene, or college towns, etc. We came here due to a job opportunity, and Cedar Park is a pretty quiet, conservative area. Good place to raise kids.
And it's way too hot here for my liking. I'm from Colorado and my wife is from Louisiana. I like to tell people that moving to Austin was a compromise: too hot for me and just right for her... You know, one of THOSE compromises
Actually, it's not the heat so much as the humidity. I'll never get used to it. But it is much better than Houston, or Louisiana, or a hundred other places.
WRT Boulder, it's a great location, but not my kind of town, either. Too 'granola.' Matter of fact, when I was researching colleges years ago, one college guide listed the college in Boulder as the 'University of
California, Boulder.' I'm not sure that was a mistake... (with apologies to any Californians reading this)
I grew up in SW Colorado (Cortez, 50 mi. W of Durango), and loved the area, but there's just no work there unless you want to make Indian jewelry or grow pinto beans.
My wife and I met while were were each living in Colorado Springs, which is an area we both love, and would love to move back to. I lived there for about 10 years, and I think she lived there about 8 years total.
IMHO any of the little (or not-so-little) mountain towns in Colorado would be great places to live, if you can handle the snow, and make a living in the tourist industry.
