Austin - City of the Decade

[vman]

According to Kiplinger's, Austin is the top city to watch for the next decade.

http://realestate.yahoo.com/promo/10...he-next-decade

[AeroD]

According to Kiplinger's, Austin is the top city to watch for the next decade.

http://realestate.yahoo.com/promo/10...he-next-decade

It has a nice park system no doubt, and the university certainly helps bring in an influx of young residents, but traffic in Austin is horrible, and living in Austin is a bit more expensive than Dallas or Houston.

[Mark Lea]

According to Kiplinger's, Austin is the top city to watch for the next decade.

http://realestate.yahoo.com/promo/10...he-next-decade

Austin is so hot right now (it could take a crap, wrap it in tinfoil, put a couple fish hooks on it and sell it to Queen Elizabeth as earrings...)

Look for a few big time companies from Cali to relocate HQs there in the next year or two (There is at least one currently shopping for space)

[lakewoodhobo]

I lived in Austin from 2004-2006 and I would've stayed if, oh, I had found a permanent, full-time JOB. Maybe the economy has exploded there since I left, but all I could find at the time were these temp jobs. And with my part-time salary, I could only afford to live 25 minutes away from downtown, wasting away on MOPAC and I-35 and wishing for a commuter rail system.

I do miss the natural beauty of Austin, but I have a much nice life in Dallas.

[Columbus Civil]

I lived in Austin from 1998-2001 and loved it. It wasn't without its faults, though.

[AeroD]

Look for a few big time companies from Cali to relocate HQs there in the next year or two (There is at least one currently shopping for space)

Off of 360? Downtown Austin never had an abundance of office space cos' your main tenants are individual lobby/trade associations, political consultants, and outposts of larger law firms.

There was a big deal made about Google opening an office in Austin, but it quietly closed its doors. And of course, there was the Intel building.

[downtownguy25]

and I-35 and wishing for a commuter rail system.

The commuter rail ever get running?

[NTexUnited]

The commuter rail ever get running?

It did, with less than stellar ridership, to say the least. However, it is brand new.

As for Austin, I was down there for SXSW, and the east side of town, east of I-35, is the new hot growth area. And the taco trucks, man, they are awesome. I have wanted to open a taco stand on some vacant land in Dallas since I last went down there. They are everywhere, and the food is nuts.

I could do without the growing smugness of my Austin buddies, many of whom moved from here after high school and never looked back. Austinites know how cool the city is, but many mistake their city's cool for their own coolness. My friends love to trash Dallas, but they don't realize that the part of town they grew up in (suburb north Dallas), does not represent the eclectic nature of our whole city. Yes, Austin was the town of the last decade, but Dallas is the town for the next one!