Move to Austin

It seems neither Nashville or Austin have any Asians.

Asians like to live in major metropolitan areas along the coast: SF, LA, NY.

Asians in Austin are the fastest growing demographic group, doubling roughly every 12 years. Asian Americans comprise 8% of the City of Austin’s population and this ranking puts Austin 9th in the country.

http://www.austinasianchamber.org/asian-data

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Missing the real estate tours.

Texas lawmakers has made a new law to cap property tax revenue increase to 3.5% per year. Communism has no place in Texas

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.star-telegram.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article231443178.html

“Robert Mayfield, the owner of Wally’s Burger Express, said that in the past year, his own property taxes increased by 44%, or about $8,000. And since 2016, he’s seen them rise by 80%. Without this legislation, Mayfield said he wasn’t sure how long he would be able to keep his family-owned restaurant open.”

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@hanera

How are private schools there ? Do you have equivalent of Harker etc ? In Austin

Please advise

I am not familiar with private schools in SV or Austin. Don’t bother about them. I think you can ask this type of question in city-data.com.

You are our very own resident expert on Austin .

What about public schools - Are those good ?

The top three public high schools are:
West lakes (better than any in SV)
Westwood (better than mvhs)
Vanderbilt

Zip codes 78717, 78681 and 78759 have high density of good (rated at least 9) middle and elementary schools. Old houses in original condition could be had for $300k. New construction cost from $500k to $1M.

There are many Asians in those schools :grinning: and neighborhoods driving school grades and house prices. If you like new construction and/or your children can’t take the hyper competitive environment, 78613 is better. Schools are rated 8, good enough :hugs:

Not familiar with South Austin as techs are mostly in North Austin.

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Weather seems to be f***** up in Austin. Is it really 81 degrees at midnight? That’s what Apple weather is showing. This is October for God’s sake. When will it get better?

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@jksram

Are you from Temperate or Tropics?
How often do you stay outside?
Do you prefer to walk around wearing T-shirt and short or jacket and long pants?
80s in Austin feel like 70s in SV.
Energy is 30% than SV.

a\c bro

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The weather takes a little getting used to but the warm nights can bring out scantily clad ladies … :fire::ok::cool::kimono:

What’s your view of Pflugerville compared to these zip codes?

Good neighborhoods in Pflugerville are Falcon Pointe, BlackHawk and those going to highland park elementary school. These are new neighborhoods (houses are less than 12 years old and still developing) have good schools (8-9), easy access to Stone hill town center/costco, parks and lakes (plenty of these). Don’t have matured ones like in 78759. Houses are fairly cheap $250k-$400k. Is a bit far from tech jobs, has to use toll 45 for speedy commuting.

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Well, don’t have power shutdown :grinning:

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Looks like too many California liberals have ruined Austin. Liberals and a Democratic mayor. Texans are pissed off.

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Any thoughts on liberty hill area?

Big time Formula 1 race next week. Biggest thing in Austin