BirdInFlight wrote:
If you, OP want to move to Texas, I can recommend Austin. Austin's only problem is that it's been such a wonderful place to live for so long, that too many people move there! It's beautiful, it's spacious, there is an intense art community, music of all genres, highly intelligent, creative people, it's a hi-tech industry hub, and there is racial, religious and sexual-orientation acceptance by the boatload. The University of Texas is actually a highly respected center of research. Rents are steadily soaring unfortunately but are still behind east and west coast rents. There are MANY worse places to be. In fact most years Austin comes up on nationwide lists of "best places to live in the United States."
A former colleague of mine lives in Austin. She's in a band, and is very much an unapologetic nonconformist.
I'd also recommend the Bay Area in California as another possible location. It shares many characteristics of Austin, although unfortunately it also has a high cost of living and really expensive rent/real estate.
20 Dec 2015, 2:00 pm
