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Azuren said:
sethnintendo said:

Lower prices on houses and no state income tax are probably more driving factors for Californians to move to Texas.  You could get a huge house in Texas or live in a little ass house for same price in Cali.  Prices over there are crazy (never been to Cali but I know the gas prices are always high).  Min wage in Cali is 10 though and Texas is set at the federal level of 7.50. 

Most people I come across here in Austin (Californian Refugee Ground Zero) always talk about how expensive EVERYTHING in Cali is. Not just homes and rent, but gas and food, too. Anything that isn't priced nationally or internationally (PS4, for example) is more expensive there. And then they start talking about getting involved in the community and voting and trying to change Austin into California. I want to stop them and remind them that they left that state because those ideals didn't work out, but sometimes I feel like many of them are in their own world.

 

That said, they aren't all like that. Some come here and get just as frustrated as the progressive liberal bullshit permeating Austin as the rest of Texas does.

My parents moved to Austin in 2000 from Ohio and I've been in Austin since about 2006 (was going to TTU but would visit Austin during breaks).  It doesn't help that almost all the articles "best place to live" , "best place to work" have Austin at or near the top.  Now there are too many people here and the roads were never built up (and if they do build a road or make it wider then it is almost always tolled).  I don't think I can last too many more years in Austin area before I want to move to somewhere less populated.