A heartwarming tale of a California dude that moved to Texas assuming that he could just live like a King, people would accommodate him, and of course discovering that Texas is hot.

Spread it wide! 10 Things I Wish I Knew Before Moving From California to Texas https://t.co/mfSBnRAVXL

— A Crude Awakening (@allengilmer) September 5, 2023

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And Austin is hot. It's not California hot; it's Texas hot. California heat is weak by comparison. In much of California the temperature cools down at night. You can open windows, breathe fresh air, and drastically limit your utility bill. In Austin, it would only get down to a smothering 80 degrees at night during the summer. This means your AC will be running all day and all night. Evening walks are less than refreshing when it's 11 p.m. and you're sweating. It's hard to describe how oppressive it is.

Although we had a huge yard and our own half basketball court, we really only felt like going outside about three to four months of the year. The rest of the time it was too windy, too hot/cold, too mosquito/horse fly/fire ant ridden or pouring. Often the kids would go outside anyway and come back with heat rashes and bug bites.

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Exhibit A was the dad (also at a kids' flag football league) wearing the "Don't move to Austin" T-shirt, a play on "Don't mess with Texas." Let me get this straight: I uprooted my family, moved across four states, and that's the welcome I get? And the worst part of it all is that it's not even funny. There's a bumper sticker in the West: "Montana sucks. Tell your friends!" Same message, but with some humor.

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In parts of Texas it's not just a monoculture, but a monoculture that doesn't seem to be aware of its own blandness. Think about it: Are you ready to have your son judged based on his suitability for a future career in football? Are you ready to network by attending the local high school football game with the guys? Because that's a thing in Texas.

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1 thing I know about the person who wrote this = He is a beta

1 down, way too damn many to go.

this warms my heart. i hope all californians feel the same way.

Honestly, sounds like he got the message.

If you fit in with Texas today, welcome. If you wish to evolve to a Texas way of doing things, welcome. If you wish to make Texas into California, stay TF in California.

Cue the Ari Gold "GTFO" gif

aggie93 said:

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A heartwarming tale of a California dude that moved to Texas assuming that he could just live like a King, people would accommodate him, and of course discovering that Texas is hot.

Spread it wide! 10 Things I Wish I Knew Before Moving From California to Texas https://t.co/mfSBnRAVXL

— A Crude Awakening (@allengilmer) September 5, 2023

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And Austin is hot. It's not California hot; it's Texas hot. California heat is weak by comparison. In much of California the temperature cools down at night. You can open windows, breathe fresh air, and drastically limit your utility bill. In Austin, it would only get down to a smothering 80 degrees at night during the summer. This means your AC will be running all day and all night. Evening walks are less than refreshing when it's 11 p.m. and you're sweating. It's hard to describe how oppressive it is.

Although we had a huge yard and our own half basketball court, we really only felt like going outside about three to four months of the year. The rest of the time it was too windy, too hot/cold, too mosquito/horse fly/fire ant ridden or pouring. Often the kids would go outside anyway and come back with heat rashes and bug bites.

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Exhibit A was the dad (also at a kids' flag football league) wearing the "Don't move to Austin" T-shirt, a play on "Don't mess with Texas." Let me get this straight: I uprooted my family, moved across four states, and that's the welcome I get? And the worst part of it all is that it's not even funny. There's a bumper sticker in the West: "Montana sucks. Tell your friends!" Same message, but with some humor.

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In parts of Texas it's not just a monoculture, but a monoculture that doesn't seem to be aware of its own blandness. Think about it: Are you ready to have your son judged based on his suitability for a future career in football? Are you ready to network by attending the local high school football game with the guys? Because that's a thing in Texas.

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Yeah I don't network bud, I drink beer and bull****

Someone please make sure to tell him that Florida is even worse!

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And Austin is hot. It's not California hot; it's Texas hot. California heat is weak by comparison. In much of California the temperature cools down at night. You can open windows, breathe fresh air, and drastically limit your utility bill. In Austin, it would only get down to a smothering 80 degrees at night during the summer. This means your AC will be running all day and all night. Evening walks are less than refreshing when it's 11 p.m. and you're sweating. It's hard to describe how oppressive it is.

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*****

GTFO you MFer and take some more with you.

He hit the nail on the head with the Cedar allergies.

Spread the word!

Saw this last week.

Weather...

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"It was supposed to have good food, weather, and good live music," he said. "That's what drew me there. Then I came to find out it didn't really fit any of those things."

Fountain, the real-estate agent, noted that Californians, especially, were unprepared for the weather. July was the hottest-ever month in Austin, with temperatures soaring to above 105 degrees for 11 straight days.

"When we started hitting 2022, what we started seeing was people had a whole year here in Austin and they realized they don't like the weather," Fountain said. "It doesn't have what they wanted in California."

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Bidenomics...

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As much as Chang wants to get out of Austin, the rise in interest rates means he may have missed his chance.

"If we sell, we would give up our 3% interest rate loan and would need to buy at 7%-plus, significantly reducing our buying power," Chang said. "With housing prices being much higher in coastal cities, this makes buying nearly impossible."

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https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:eT87J6e4Y7EJ:https://www.businessinsider.com/tech-workers-moved-to-austin-regrets-2023-8&cd=9&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

And this idiot acts like we tried to runs and failed.

Our 3 RBs split 20 carries for 102 yards (5 ypc) and our QB decided to run it exactly twice, picked up another 22.

We didn't run much because they defense sold out against it, leaving safeties covering elite WRs. That doesn't mean we couldn't have run it, Genius.

I saw 3 California plates this morning in a matter of 3 minutes. Hopefully they will see that.

I really hope he finds this thread. I read the whole article. What a whiny beta, liberal, *****. I tell you what that family needs, and it's a "man of the household". Tell that soy boy to fetch his balls back next time he heads down to Whole Foods.

And my favorite of all incessant whining he managed to vomit onto the screen was the "my kids teachers make them say 'yes sir'". How's about you raise some kids that aren't spoiled brats.

Adios Mofo.

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And Austin is hot. It's not California hot; it's Texas hot. California heat is weak by comparison. In much of California the temperature cools down at night. You can open windows, breathe fresh air, and drastically limit your utility bill. In Austin, it would only get down to a smothering 80 degrees at night during the summer. This means your AC will be running all day and all night. Evening walks are less than refreshing when it's 11 p.m. and you're sweating. It's hard to describe how oppressive it is.

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I laughed heartily. All this info could've been discovered by visiting for a long weekend.

Almost everything he said is wrong, or a fabrication.

But I dont care...enjoy your ride back to Cali

Considering the hypocrisy in his article, I take him for your typical Californian, and the reason Texas (and Austin in particular) real estate prices are blowing up.

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11. (I couldn't stop at 10) Big luxury home obsession

I'm guessing because of the lack of public land, terrible weather, etc., that Austinites get really into their houses. We saw some unbelievably ornate homes castle-esque.
And there's pressure to keep your house immaculate. You can buy a home that is really nice by California standards (updated kitchen, crown moldings) only to find that everyone else's house is much nicer than yours, which we didn't care about until we found that no one wanted to buy our less-than-luxurious home.

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Yet earlier in the article:

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We moved from San Diego in 2015 (owning a 2,000-square-foot house on a one-third acre) looking for a boost in lifestyle.

So we bought a 4,000-square-foot house in Bee Cave (an affluent suburb of Austin) with "great schools." We heard Austin was extremely hot so we got a place with a pool.

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Please keep writing these hit pieces. Pleasepleaseplease.

They can all go back to their Utopia and enjoy all those "services."

"doubled the size of our house/complain about taxes on that property."

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I laughed heartily. All this info could've been discovered by visiting for a long weekend.

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Or using google. I would think this beta would be an expert at that.

Please share this far and wide - hopefully more of our new transplants go back to where they came from

TEXAS SUCKS! TELL YOUR FRIENDS!!

Whoa, crown moldings you say? Fancy!

"Hey let's move somewhere and do no research"


Typical coddled Californian.

What a flaming vagina.

My kids are 11 and 14 and spent the entire summer outside. They *****ed a little about the heat but it didn't slow them down much. Hell my daughter spent an entire month in a cabin with no AC.

Beta Democrat.

This is my favorite thing I've read all year. There's just gold everywhere.

Seems like he didn't do any research before just moving.



I found this amusing.

This beta guy:
"I love getting to know people from other cultures. In California we've had Vietnamese neighbors, Iranian neighbors, Filipinos, Palestinians, you name it. We love it.

In parts of Texas it's not just a monoculture, but a monoculture that doesn't seem to be aware of its own blandness. "


Bottom of the article is a link to another article of an Asian couple from SF who love it in Austin.

https://www.businessinsider.com/moved-from-san-francisco-to-texas-for-work-life-balance-2023-8?inline-endstory-related-recommendations=

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And this idiot acts like we tried to runs and failed.

Our 3 RBs split 20 carries for 102 yards (5 ypc) and our QB decided to run it exactly twice, picked up another 22.

We didn't run much because they defense sold out against it, leaving safeties covering elite WRs. That doesn't mean we couldn't have run it, Genius.

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YEAH!!!!!!

That guy couldn't have been more obvious that he wanted to Californiaize Texas and help turn it blue.

He should have just named the article "Confessions of a triggered California Liberal".

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So we bought a 4,000-square-foot house in Bee Cave (an affluent suburb of Austin) with "great schools." We heard Austin was extremely hot so we got a place with a pool.

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Bet it was a shallow pool with black gunite. Back in the late 80s when I was house hunting in Austin, I took my BIL's sister along, who had lived there for years. Any house that had a shallow pool or dark colored gunite she said no. You'll need dry ice to keep it cool in the summer.

The house I finally bought had a pool, a deep one with diving board. There really wasn't a shallow end, so I never had an issue with the pool water being too warm.

Wimps...

His point about property taxes is dumb.

You have to look at overall tax burden from all sources. Cali is about 12% higher than Texas overall.

New York is outrageously high.