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TEXAS BRAHS: Is it better to accept a job offer in San Antonio or Austin?

Calling all Texas brahs, where would you rather live and work--San Antonio or Austin? I have the opportunity to move and would love to live in a FREE STATE!

Cliffs:
-Currently live in Virginia but I'm getting out of the military soon and I'm tired of the liberal politics here.
-Wife was just offered a management job in Texas with her current company and given the option of choosing her office. She would either be in North San Antonio or South Austin.
-Her pay would be $5k higher in Austin but she's leaning towards SA due to cheaper house prices
-I don't have a job lined up yet but should be able to find one in either city (have a master's and getting my PMP in a month or two)
-We have a baby, probably will have more in the future, and want to settle down somewhere with good school districts to raise a family long term
-I should be getting VA disability but I don't know how much yet. Praying hard for 100% because that would mean no property tax in Texas. I should get more than 50% which is the cutoff for disabled veteran license plates though, so that's pretty cool.


Pros and Cons

Austin


Pros:
-Live music everywhere
-Housing market is exploding, could probably make a ton of equity if I buy now
-Probably easier to find a job for myself
-Scenery and outdoor activities
-BBQ and food trucks
-I like the college town feel
-Apparently there's more of an emphasis on fitness

Cons:
-All the california libs
-Homeless (but apparently they're voting to ban "urban camping" again so that might change)
-Housing is way more expensive
-Traffic is apparently absolutely terrible
-High sales and property taxes



San Antonio


Pros:
-Cheaper housing, but will probably still build equity on appreciation
-More family-friendly?
-Mexican food
-Apparently HEB is like the best thing ever
-Less traffic
-More conservative

Cons:
-Basically just missing out on all of the Pros from Austin
-Also high sales and property taxes



Also important to note--my sister's wife and her husband live in New Braunfels which is like halfway between both cities. It would be cool to live near them but I would worry about commuting into either city from there with the traffic. Though I'm assuming commuting into San Antonio would be way easier than driving into Austin.



So what is the misc's recommendation? Reps till I'm out
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I've never been to Austin but heard it's a cool city. I lived in San Antonio for about 4 years and loved it there. Would consider moving back.


not sure what people think HEB is the best thing ever for. to me it was nothing different than Ralph's, Kroger's or whichever other grocery stores chains I've seen. The Riverwalk is cool. it has a military city feel because there is a huge military presence in San Antonio which I like. I personally think people in Texas are just friendlier than places like California or other states I've visited.
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San Antonio for sure
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I was born and raised in San Antonio, went to college in Austin, worked/lived as an adult in both cities. Currently live in a suburb town about 10 miles west of Austin.

Honestly the answer is Austin and it's not even close. Love San Antonio but you basically run out of shiit to do eventually. Not possible here in Austin. More restaurants, more music, more outdoor activities, better base for day trips all over central Texas.
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Originally Posted By justroberson⏩
I was born and raised in San Antonio, went to college in Austin, worked/lived as an adult in both cities. Currently live in a suburb town about 10 miles west of Austin.

Honestly the answer is Austin and it's not even close. Love San Antonio but you basically run out of shiit to do eventually. Not possible here in Austin. More restaurants, more music, more outdoor activities, better base for day trips all over central Texas.
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Would never live in San Antonio again.

Also HEB is no Publix. I do like Central Market tho.
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Originally Posted By MattyMiscer⏩
Calling all Texas brahs, where would you rather live and work--San Antonio or Austin? I have the opportunity to move and would love to live in a FREE STATE!

Cliffs:
-Currently live in Virginia but I'm getting out of the military soon and I'm tired of the liberal politics here.
-Wife was just offered a management job in Texas with her current company and given the option of choosing her office. She would either be in North San Antonio or South Austin.
-Her pay would be $5k higher in Austin but she's leaning towards SA due to cheaper house prices
-I don't have a job lined up yet but should be able to find one in either city (have a master's and getting my PMP in a month or two)
-We have a baby, probably will have more in the future, and want to settle down somewhere with good school districts to raise a family long term
-I should be getting VA disability but I don't know how much yet. Praying hard for 100% because that would mean no property tax in Texas. I should get more than 50% which is the cutoff for disabled veteran license plates though, so that's pretty cool.


Pros and Cons

Austin


Pros:
-Live music everywhere
-Housing market is exploding, could probably make a ton of equity if I buy now
-Probably easier to find a job for myself
-Scenery and outdoor activities
-BBQ and food trucks
-I like the college town feel
-Apparently there's more of an emphasis on fitness

Cons:
-All the california libs
-Homeless (but apparently they're voting to ban "urban camping" again so that might change)
-Housing is way more expensive
-Traffic is apparently absolutely terrible
-High sales and property taxes



San Antonio


Pros:
-Cheaper housing, but will probably still build equity on appreciation
-More family-friendly?
-Mexican food
-Apparently HEB is like the best thing ever
-Less traffic
-More conservative

Cons:
-Basically just missing out on all of the Pros from Austin
-Also high sales and property taxes



Also important to note--my sister's wife and her husband live in New Braunfels which is like halfway between both cities. It would be cool to live near them but I would worry about commuting into either city from there with the traffic. Though I'm assuming commuting into San Antonio would be way easier than driving into Austin.



So what is the misc's recommendation? Reps till I'm out
Austin was probably the best place to live in Texas about 15-20 years ago but since it's been liberalized like a martha focker, it's been slowly getting chitty by the year. Still a great place to live but it's time is ticking. I would say San Antonio if you want to live comfortably without libertards trying to destroy your city.
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Originally Posted By sword_⏩
Also HEB is no Publix. I do like Central Market tho.
That's because most of the HEBs in Austin suck, and are equal to the ones in the most ghetto/barrio areas of San Antonio. It's weird, like HEB dgaf about their Austin stores, except that new one in South Austin. And the ones out here in Bee Cave and Lakeway are nice as fuk too.
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I lived in Austin for about 3 years, it's nice and green over there, humid like fukking crazy in either place. San Antonio felt harder to breathe in, to me, real bad oxygen quality on occasion. I couldn't wait to drive past it. Never lived there though.
Austin is liberal like crazy, but there is something to do all the time, people line up for miles for the next event that gets planned. You could go eat at a new place damn near every day of the year.
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Originally Posted By justroberson⏩
I was born and raised in San Antonio, went to college in Austin, worked/lived as an adult in both cities. Currently live in a suburb town about 10 miles west of Austin.

Honestly the answer is Austin and it's not even close. Love San Antonio but you basically run out of shiit to do eventually. Not possible here in Austin. More restaurants, more music, more outdoor activities, better base for day trips all over central Texas.
If we go with Austin we'd pretty much end up in one of those suburb towns like San Marcos. Does living outside of the city take away from the benefits of Austin? I'm basically just trying to weigh the cost of living and decide if Austin would give us enough to be worth the added housing costs. If we live down near San Antonio at least we'd be close enough to head up to Austin whenever we want, right?
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If you and your wife are military you may like San Antonio but I'd still just urge you to move to an Austin suburb like Georgetown if you want a conservative area and military. There's also Bee Cave, Ceder Park and Pflugerville.

San Antonio is Mexican centric and there's nothing else really there culturally. Even if some food places want to advertise food (i.e. I knew a Pakistani restaurant) they have to put it in a taco or something lol.

IMO Tex-Mex is ****ing overrated and I got burned out on it. Yes there's more family friendly stuff in San Antonio but it's sort of a place where you want to build a family but even then if I had a family I wouldn't want to curse them living there.

Most of the city is blue collar and never really venture out 50 miles from where they lived I moved from Atlanta in 2011 so it was sort of social suicide when I moved there because I didn't really culturally mesh there. You wear something like you do in Virginia like a polo or button down, jeans and nice shoes and people think you're "dressing up" lol.

You'd probably have more career opportunities in Austin given it's a tech hub. San Antonio has USAA and some government contract stuff.

Traffic in San Antonio is bad around the 1604. Constant construction plus more people moving there. Austin has I-35 and yes there are growing traffic issues for sure. It's inevitable with a growing city. I don't really have a solution for that other than do like myself and WFH. My girlfriend's job is 10 mins from us. Easy commute.

Austin while I have my gripes has more cultural outlets IMO. Austin has a sort of internal conflict between Austin Natives and Transplants who want to change things. That's why you have stuff like Prop B going on where they're trying to reinstate camping bans because Adler thought that just letting homeless roam free was a good idea when in fact it is a public safety, health, and environmental risk to have them everywhere. We're working on that.


Plenty of fun stuff to do in Texas Hill Country BTW wherever you land. Texas is a beautiful state.
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I always lol at these Austin threads were everyone biitches about how liberal it is, as well as the hobos. THAT SHIIT EASILY AVOIDED.

-don't go downtown when there's a protest (it's not an election year and bad orange man is gone, do they even have them anymore?)
-don't talk politics with randoms in the city (not hard)
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-don't hang out in highway under passes or back alleys downtown
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Originally Posted By MattyMiscer⏩
If we go with Austin we'd pretty much end up in one of those suburb towns like San Marcos. Does living outside of the city take away from the benefits of Austin? I'm basically just trying to weigh the cost of living and decide if Austin would give us enough to be worth the added housing costs. If we live down near San Antonio at least we'd be close enough to head up to Austin whenever we want, right?
San Marcos would be too far for chilling in Austin for fun. IMO. I'm North of Austin, but also like all the Western Burbs.
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Originally Posted By justroberson⏩
That's because most of the HEBs in Austin suck, and are equal to the ones in the most ghetto/barrio areas of San Antonio. It's weird, like HEB dgaf about their Austin stores, except that new one in South Austin. And the ones out here in Bee Cave and Lakeway are nice as fuk too.
HEB can be nice but living in the South Publix is the GOAT.

I shop at Central Market and Whole Food mostly. HEB for some things. They are making more HEB Plus stores which are really nice.

If I move anywhere else in Texas it would be Houston. Amazing food scene. Houston is underrated/slept on for being an international hub. Many different groups and scenes there. Green space.

The problem is there you're in Hurricane Alley there and you need to drive everywhere due to it being spread out.
Originally Posted By justroberson⏩
I always lol at these Austin threads were everyone biitches about how liberal it is, as well as the hobos. THAT SHIIT EASILY AVOIDED.

-don't go downtown when there's a protest (it's not an election year and bad orange man is gone, do they even have them anymore?)
-don't talk politics with randoms in the city (not hard)
-live in a conservative pocket/suburb = any richer area (Westlake, Tarrytown, Bee Cave, Steiner Ranch, etc)
-don't hang out in highway under passes or back alleys downtown
Agreed. It's not too hard.

I do feel that Austin does lack diversity of thought but like you said DON'T talk politics or hang out with those folks!
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Originally Posted By MattyMiscer⏩
If we go with Austin we'd pretty much end up in one of those suburb towns like San Marcos. Does living outside of the city take away from the benefits of Austin? I'm basically just trying to weigh the cost of living and decide if Austin would give us enough to be worth the added housing costs. If we live down near San Antonio at least we'd be close enough to head up to Austin whenever we want, right?
San Marcos is perfectly in the middle so good access to both cities, and cheaper housing. From there, a work commute would be worse IMO to downtown Austin than to north San Antonio.

I can get to downtown Austin from where I live in about 15-20min and I only go in on the weekends, so I'm not losing out.

And yes, you could still realistically take advantage of Austin if you lived in north SA or New Braunfels.
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Funny how many folks are voting for San Antonio and never lived there. People think that it's some conservative bastion but every presidential election where the president is Democratic and wins Bexar County is blue. It's conservative in some pockets and I'd admit far more conservative than Austin but there are still younger milleneals who are left leaning there.

Also if you think you're gonna see a bunch of Salma Hayeks there amongst all the Mexican food there you'd be wrong. Be prepared to be full HTC with all the obese cholas there.

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Austin is the choice. It's an awesome city, politics aside. There is a reason the Californians all descended on it instead of San Antonio or El Paso which are closer to California
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Definitely DON'T pick an in between city and attempt to commute on i35.

So many tagless vehicles, dumb young kids, and chitty maintained 18 wheelers on long hauls to Laredo from Chicago and vise versa.

Swear I read a story every night about someone dying in a horrible accident on i35 between Austin and SA.
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If you and your fam will actually use the entertainment Austin offers, hands down Austin.
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Originally Posted By sword_⏩
If you and your wife are military you may like San Antonio but I'd still just urge you to move to an Austin suburb like Georgetown if you want a conservative area and military. There's also Bee Cave, Ceder Park and Pflugerville.

San Antonio is Mexican centric and there's nothing else really there culturally. Even if some food places want to advertise food (i.e. I knew a Pakistani restaurant) they have to put it in a taco or something lol.

IMO Tex-Mex is ****ing overrated and I got burned out on it. Yes there's more family friendly stuff in San Antonio but it's sort of a place where you want to build a family but even then if I had a family I wouldn't want to curse them living there.

Most of the city is blue collar and never really venture out 50 miles from where they lived I moved from Atlanta in 2011 so it was sort of social suicide when I moved there because I didn't really culturally mesh there. You wear something like you do in Virginia like a polo or button down, jeans and nice shoes and people think you're "dressing up" lol.

You'd probably have more career opportunities in Austin given it's a tech hub. San Antonio has USAA and some government contract stuff.

Traffic in San Antonio is bad around the 1604. Constant construction plus more people moving there. Austin has I-35 and yes there are growing traffic issues for sure. It's inevitable with a growing city. I don't really have a solution for that other than do like myself and WFH. My girlfriend's job is 10 mins from us. Easy commute.

Austin while I have my gripes has more cultural outlets IMO. Austin has a sort of internal conflict between Austin Natives and Transplants who want to change things. That's why you have stuff like Prop B going on where they're trying to reinstate camping bans because Adler thought that just letting homeless roam free was a good idea when in fact it is a public safety, health, and environmental risk to have them everywhere. We're working on that.


Plenty of fun stuff to do in Texas Hill Country BTW wherever you land. Texas is a beautiful state.
I'm military, soon to be (hopefully) medically retired. Wife is a civilian. PX access in San Antonio is cool if we have a big purchase like a tv or furniture or something and don't want to pay sales tax, but honestly I probably wouldn't be going on base very often.

We've looked at Pflugerville a little bit, but would probably end up somewhere south of the city to be closer to my wife's work and her family in New Braunfels.

Good food is good, but agree on the Tex Mex. I would be more excited about that hill country bbq. I spent a lot of time in Coronado with the Navy and those cali burritos were so good they probably ruined all other Mexican food for me.

So San Antonio is not friendly to S&P crew? Awfukbye. Picturing all San Antonians as Hank Hill now.
Originally Posted By justroberson⏩
I always lol at these Austin threads were everyone biitches about how liberal it is, as well as the hobos. THAT SHIIT EASILY AVOIDED.

-don't go downtown when there's a protest (it's not an election year and bad orange man is gone, do they even have them anymore?)
-don't talk politics with randoms in the city (not hard)
-live in a conservative pocket/suburb = any richer area (Westlake, Tarrytown, Bee Cave, Steiner Ranch, etc)
-don't hang out in highway under passes or back alleys downtown
With both of the job offers my wife had in Austin (she turned one down a few weeks ago), the hiring managers actually went out of their way to warn her about the homeless problem which I thought was funny. But yeah I agree it shouldn't be too hard to avoid it, but it would be nice if you didn't have to see tent cities on the side of the roads.
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Went to school in Austin. It’s liberal af. I had culture shock when I moved back to Dallas. Austin even made Chicago feel conservative to me. Thinking about moving back to Austin though. Austin housing is out of control. Good luck buying a house there. City is also having major growing pains.

San Antonio is definitely more family friendly and a lot of military people there. Friend in med school in San Antonio says he enjoys it. IMO you won’t enjoy Austin as much if you have a family. Its more oriented towards young, single people. If you live in San Antonio you can always drive up to Austin on a weekend.
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SA is a great place to raise a family. Six Flags and Sea World are both in town, Schlitterbahn (goat water park) is in New Braunfels. We drive up to Austin sometimes on the weekend for fun. If you said you were single or newly married and no kids in near future, I would say Austin 100%. But considering you have a young family, I think SA is a great spot. You mentioned New Braunfels - a lot of people live here and commute to SA but having lived in the Houston suburbs while working in DT Houston, I would never recommend a long commute like that to anyone. Absolutely soul-crushing.

I grew up in SA and couldn't wait to leave. Lived in Dallas, Boston, and Houston. Once I started having kids, we moved back to SA and have no regrets. PM me if you have any questions on specific areas/neighborhoods.

Sword makes great points, except saying tex-mex is overrated is blasphemous and it's a good thing he doesn't like SA because he's never welcome back with that attitude.
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Originally Posted By tas4563⏩
humid like fukking crazy in either place.
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Originally Posted By SevenFigures⏩
IMO you won’t enjoy Austin as much if you have a family. Its more oriented towards young, single people. If you live in San Antonio you can always drive up to Austin on a weekend.
This is definitely the way my wife is leaning right now.
Originally Posted By thek1d⏩
SA is a great place to raise a family. Six Flags and Sea World are both in town, Schlitterbahn (goat water park) is in New Braunfels. We drive up to Austin sometimes on the weekend for fun. If you said you were single or newly married and no kids in near future, I would say Austin 100%. But considering you have a young family, I think SA is a great spot. You mentioned New Braunfels - a lot of people live here and commute to SA but having lived in the Houston suburbs while working in DT Houston, I would never recommend a long commute like that to anyone. Absolutely soul-crushing.

I grew up in SA and couldn't wait to leave. Lived in Dallas, Boston, and Houston. Once I started having kids, we moved back to SA and have no regrets. PM me if you have any questions on specific areas/neighborhoods.

Sword makes great points, except saying tex-mex is overrated is blasphemous and it's a good thing he doesn't like SA because he's never welcome back with that attitude.
LMAO reps on recharge. Will PM you.
Originally Posted By sword_⏩
Funny how many folks are voting for San Antonio and never lived there. People think that it's some conservative bastion but every presidential election where the president is Democratic and wins Bexar County is blue. It's conservative in some pockets and I'd admit far more conservative than Austin but there are still younger milleneals who are left leaning there.

Also if you think you're gonna see a bunch of Salma Hayeks there amongst all the Mexican food there you'd be wrong. Be prepared to be full HTC with all the obese cholas there.

Lmao when my wife was doing research and discovered the riverwalk I showed her this video
Originally Posted By DBoyDaRealest⏩
Definitely DON'T pick an in between city and attempt to commute on i35.

So many tagless vehicles, dumb young kids, and chitty maintained 18 wheelers on long hauls to Laredo from Chicago and vise versa.

Swear I read a story every night about someone dying in a horrible accident on i35 between Austin and SA.
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Originally Posted By thek1d⏩
SA is a great place to raise a family. Six Flags and Sea World are both in town, Schlitterbahn (goat water park) is in New Braunfels. We drive up to Austin sometimes on the weekend for fun. If you said you were single or newly married and no kids in near future, I would say Austin 100%. But considering you have a young family, I think SA is a great spot. You mentioned New Braunfels - a lot of people live here and commute to SA but having lived in the Houston suburbs while working in DT Houston, I would never recommend a long commute like that to anyone. Absolutely soul-crushing.

I grew up in SA and couldn't wait to leave. Lived in Dallas, Boston, and Houston. Once I started having kids, we moved back to SA and have no regrets. PM me if you have any questions on specific areas/neighborhoods.

Sword makes great points, except saying tex-mex is overrated is blasphemous and it's a good thing he doesn't like SA because he's never welcome back with that attitude.
Hahaha long time no see brother!

I actually like New Mexico style food instead. Those green chilies HNNNNGG.

Frankly I just got burned out on Tex-Mex. My GF enjoys it but she loves carbs.

We're actually going to Oaxaca in June. Heard it's Mexico foodie central.


BTW Matty Texas Hill Country is amazing. Distilleries, Wineries, BBQ. We hit up this Texas Hill Country Olive Oil store every now and then. Drive anywhere in the country and you will hit something amazing. Been to Fredricksburg a few times and I've been to many parts of Texas. Only part I haven't been to is far east Texas and the Texas/Arkansas border. I think my GF and I are going to hit up Nacogdoches in a few months.


If you're leaning towards San Antonio I wouldn't be surprised if you and your wife land in Schertz, Stone Oak, or Helotes.
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Originally Posted By sword_⏩
BTW Matty Texas Hill Country is amazing. Distilleries, Wineries, BBQ. We hit up this Texas Hill Country Olive Oil store every now and then. Drive anywhere in the country and you will hit something amazing. Been to Fredricksburg a few times and I've been to many parts of Texas. Only part I haven't been to is far east Texas and the Texas/Arkansas border. I think my GF and I are going to hit up Nacogdoches in a few months.
Yeah I'm really looking forward to that, regardless of which city we choose. I used to LOVE this place in DC called Hill Country BBQ back when I lived up there, and as good as it was, I'm sure it's got nothing on the real thing.
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