Ca use to be a red state. It needs to retune to be a Red state!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
As a person who has lived in Texas almost all my life, I hate the heat here. Your description of opening the oven and getting hit in the face with the blast of heat is 100% accurate.
Born and raised in the Deep South( South Mississippi Creole and Cajun Country) and I live in San Antonio now and there's never a time when I will get used to the humidity and heat of the South. 36 years and still prefer climates like Cali or Massachusetts, but will never leave. It's all love
As someone who lived in San Francisco proper and also many years in the surrounding Bay Area, I must tell you that tech changed the Bay Area a lot. They attracted a lot of well paying jobs from all over the country, including Texas, thus displacing the long time residents and causing prices to go out of control. Now that all those CA tech companies are moving to Austin - good luck with keeping prices reasonable, giving space to locals, and reducing the homeless population. I predict that in 5-10 years people will be escaping Austin in a big way.
@@annettewhitehead751 Now you know how Californians, especially they bay area felt. They tried keeping these companies out and were accused of being anti capitalist communist. The big tech took over the region and look what all that Wall St money did to the communities. It's not a 'liberal' thing or the democrat politicians, of course they certainly didn't help and a part of the problem but the main problem are the multi billion and some case multi trillion dollar corporations that blew up the housing market. So get ready for a housing crisis and rising crime. And don't blame the 'liberals' or 'Californians' for those issue. It is a Wall St,/Federal Reserve/greedy capitalist creation that neither party are willing stop. They're both owned by the banks anyway
When I moved to Texas, I explored Dallas, San Antonio, Houston and Austin. Chose Houston and love it. Austin's major detractors: 1) limited properties for sale and very high prices. I would have been committing to the purchase of a home that would be built in 1-1.5 years WITHOUT having a set price on the property at the time of signing the contract. 2) It's the only city in Texas that has California-style homelessness and urban blight (those new high-rises look good until you explore the city on foot). Having lived 20 years in California, I can tell you that Austin is greatly impacted negatively by California transplants. If you're fleeing California, it might be wise to understand that the conditions you're fleeing are what you voted for.
Trying to accommodate people from states like Cali,is like attempting to help someone who was raised in an abusive home;Turmoil is all they've ever known!All they WANT to know(in some cases).Ex;A friend of mine married a girl who was from such a background,He was not.She tried to RE-CREATE that same type of atmosphere in THEIR home!Get the picture?
Houston has terrible flooding and very high humidity. There is also heavy taxes and impossible traffic too. Crime has gotten bad to the point where your vehicle can get stolen from a home in a high value neighborhood or even a popular shopping center. I know too many people that have gone through that. It is ridiculous for people to pick the city over many others across the country.
"It's the only city in Texas that has California-style homelessness and urban blight" wOw do you even live in Texas. Dallas has a large homeless population. The Police are known for their sweeps. ALL the large cities in Texas have issues with homelessness. Of course all the large cities are ran by the Dems. As are ALL the places the US makes money! Those Californians are gonna change the voting patterns in a few years...Especially the folks that work for Elon Musk. "It's the only city in Texas that has California-style homelessness and urban blight" super ignorant thing to say...You must know nothing about where the homeless are, and why.
I've lived in Texas all my life. Been in Austin for 20 years. The sad reality is the city used to be about art and music. It had charm and a small town feel in a capitol city. With the transplants those things are pushed out and the reason for coming to Austin in the first place isn't here anymore.
@@jadetullos2684 more people means more opportunities as long as its managed right. Look at NYC, for all its flaws, businesses thrive with a larger customer base. But yes austin politicians are attracting business without building infrastructure to accommodate for the increased population.
@@thunderb00m the same NY that has a horrible cost of living, politics, and is losing its citizens and businesses? Nah, I’m good. We’re getting opportunities, because we’re business friendly here. Transplants bring their traffic, crappy driving and politics, and high cost of living here, which makes it more difficult for single parents and people that didn’t turn their state into a wasteland to have a decent quality of life, never mind be able to own a home.
My parents moved us to Austin in 1963. Now, 60 years later, my sister is being forced out of her home due to the UNREASONABLY HIGH property taxes due to the inflated value of homes. It’s sad that longtime Austinites whose income is not on the same inflated pace as taxes, have to try to find more affordable housing at a great distance from here.
My family moved to Kyle in 1856. They lived in San Marcos for many decades but my grandpa went to UT and settled in Austin the in 1950s. By the 1970s he was printing bumper stickers reading "Austin: comforting the afflicted, afflicting the comfortable." Austin has sucked long before the culture vultures arrived.
Texas has always had exorbitant property taxes. I had a house in Galveston I had to give up in 2015 and there are no jobs in Galveston unless you work in medical. Of coursexwakmaert type jobs at low pay are there.
Californian here… been to Texas many times to visit. Never been a big fan. Even tried living in Florida for a number of years and moved back to California. Hard to beat the West Coast for me. So this will be one less Californium coming to Texas (which some will be happy about).
Growing up on the West Coast of California, the worst part about leaving is the weather, the forests, red woods, California coastline, 4 seasons, the beauty. Everything else sucks, it's just a beautiful place to live.
4 seasons in California?, not along the coast where most people live (or live near), that would be the mountainous regions in the far North and Eastern part of the state.
@@mikelouis2118 California is a wide state. There is the Central Valley and the border regions like the Inland Empire. They are totally noncoastal and do not have the redwoods or the beaches. I live off the beach, so I am a coastal Californian, which means the weather is temperate. The Inland Empire, by contrast, is typically 100 degrees in October.
Born and raised in Texas but lived in El Segundo for 5 years before moving back due to the cost of living there. I missed the cool nights in LA and the beauty the state offers. Although I appreciate Texas, I find that the weather and natural landscapes do not quite measure up to those of California.
Thanks for that :-) it’s good to see that in this common section there are actually adults here that show open mindedness, and are willing to recognize both the upside and down sides of both places. So far in this comment section I’m seeing a lot whiny little babies who just want to blame their problems on everyone else. Thank you.
Nobody should live in Texas but Texans, it's just not a suitable place for outsiders. Spread the word, don't let Californians ruin their lives by moving to Texas. Help those Californians realize the huge huge mistake of moving to Texas. Oregon, Washington, Vegas, Arizona but not Texas. Just trying to help those wonderful Californian natives.
I’ve been helping more and more people come back to California. Everyone should do their research by watching videos like this one before moving. Unfortunately, they have to pay twice as much to buy into their old neighborhood. Great video!
Just wait until all those who moved to Florida who said why didn't I do this sooner get hit with a massive hurricane season.... that is why folks! That will help prop up crashing prices for a little bit.
Austin has changed so much in 12 years! We came to Austin from California and it’s changed so much. Many , many, many people here…very crowded. We wouldn’t mind moving to the beautiful Sierras. We spent lots of time there as kids. Btw, we are retired and property taxes will more than likely push me out if something happens to my husband.
Since y'all are retired I would think y'all might soon qualify for the senior tax exemption? I'm pretty sure my parents will get that when my mom turns 65 next year. Texas is nothing like the way it was - I don't even recognize it anymore. I live south of San Antonio and what was once quiet country, it's looking like a compact metropolis. I can't stand San Antonio.
No place like home ❤I don’t care what people said about California. I LOVE California. Thank you Jesus Christ for California. You are amazing thank you for sharing this with us. God bless you 🙏🙏
@@abundantharmonyAccording to the Christian faith, Jesus preached love and acceptance, so theoretically, he would be more in line with a place like California than, say, much of the south. If you believe in God, that is.
@@purplemist7 Uh, no. He preached directly against homosexuality and ALL other sin, as does the rest of the Bible. Jesus doesn't "love" people to hell.
California really needs a channel promoting it… California is not all skid row or the tenderloin… every time I see it on the news or videos discussing California it’s the same couple of streets that are really bad in the most expensive cities. Most states are worse off compared to California and most places in California are really nice if you don’t hyper focus on those same couple of streets. I was in SF the other day and it’s so nice in most of the city. Good weather, amazing food, clean and safe places to walk and take in unique culture and meet nice people… but the news never goes outside of the few streets that have it the worst. Also if you go outside of LA and silicone valley people are chill and nice. Places like Indiana, Maryland, St. Louis, Jacksonville these places are way worse off … my theory is California is a political symbol of the left wing of neoliberal capitalism and it has gone against the old money on the east coast so it gets extra scrutiny. The Republican Party easily fixated on it as well so there is a lot of interest in painting it as failed political symbol, California is actually hyper capitalist wealthy enclave and the inequality comes from big business and old people blocking new housing
Well get used to it. They have been doing that to the rustbelt for decades. Once you get bad rep, it is hard to change the mindset. I personally love both states. Texas is better in somethings
I guess the bad rap couldn't be from the highest state taxes in the country. It could not be the democratic leaders you vote in that pass green energy regulations that prevent new housing from being built. It couldn't be the free healthcare you now provide to illegal l immigrants off the backs of taxpayers. I guess you don't drive thru the neighborhoods in Los Angeles too much to see tent cities throughout the city. Not visited the parks in San Diego being overrun with homeless people. I guess the policy of providing 600 month and a free phone to anyone who asks for welfare does not attract every bum in the country to come. Could not be any of that.
What I am saying is capitalism creates this eveywhere it succeeds… California is extremely capitalistic and overly successful its full of millionaires that buy all the real estate and drive the price up… the market has driven up costs and near the wealth there is very little land. I develop real estate here and I can tell you the cities and state want to build housing but they get sued constantly by the wealthy people here whenever anything is built near them. That makes the entire process super tedious and zoning is hard to change. It has almost nothing to do with environmental regulations or democrats. The environmental regulation is not even an issue like you guess or have been told by people who do not know what they are talking about. Additionally All the other states pay to send their homeless here. My friend from highschool was stabbed 47 times by a psychopath that was sent here on a free one way ticket by the Baltimore police department to get rid of him. Most of the state is very very nice and people who get used to it here do not want to leave. I am reminded every time I travel around that there are only a few pockets outside of California that I would consider moving to even though it was so challenging to improve my financial situation to afford it here. The taxes are not that bad either I often only pay a couple thousand in state taxes per year but I pay 20-30k in federal taxes. As well are property taxes are much lower than Texas look it up ;)… the issue here is the wealthy block housing and bid up prices in desirable areas because it’s so nice here… then the builders who build here have to afford to live here to so the cost to construct is primarily labor the materials is very little. Don’t believe all the bullshit you see on your biased news
So using your logic it is and will remain too expensive to live in California. According to you the zoning and wealthy people stop building. Even though they revoked the single family zoning law last year the land and materials are still too expensive to build. Median house in California is 930,000. Texas is 411,000. Yes the property taxes in Texas are higher but the house costs half what it does in California. 930 x 0.74 of assessed value is $6882 411 x1.7 of assessed value is $6980. So your tax liability in each state is the same but you can buy a house in Texas because it's 56 per cent cheaper than California. Texas does not have any problem building new houses because there zoning is building friendly. You don't get hit with 13 percent state tax.in Texas California has lost population three years in a row and there is a reason for that.
Great video...you nailed it. I moved from Florida 8 years ago to Austin and I agree 100% with this video. In just the 8 years I have lived here, I can see the change in the city and it's not for the good. Cost of living, toll roads, housing, weather, culture...these are all going in the wrong direction. My fiance and I are moving up north next year. I have lived in the south my entire life and I'm over it. I want four seasons. The heat here this summer was brutal...like you can't do anything outdoors. We had 60+ days of 100+ F this summer (majority of which were back to back). Throw in the lack of a solid energy grid and water issues, we are done with it. Housing used to be ok 4-5 years ago but now houses that would have been in the mid-$400K's are now in the $600K-700K+ range. If you want to get around anywhere in a decent amount of time, prepare to use the toll roads. My office is about 20 miles away and it adds up to about $10 a day in just tolls to get there in 25 mins. If I didn't take the tolls, it would take closer to an hour during rush hour. If you want to travel outside of Austin, you'll still need to take toll roads if you want to make decent time and/or avoid the constant bottlenecks on the highways (I-35 is the worst). It's a shame because I can tell this was probably a cool town to live in 20+ years ago but it's growing so fast and the old culture is dying off. The schools in Austin ISD are garbage. Definitely move to the Leander ISD if you want your kids to have a decent school. Round Rock and Georgetown are also good ISDs.
@@MrAeronca100 I'll take a couple of months of possible ice/snow for the rest of year with temperate weather for the other 8-9 months. It will be cold no doubt so not dismissing it.
@@MrAeronca100 yeah, you're right Ed. I was born in metro Detroit. First sixteen years there. Lived in Erie PA for a bit. Snowed a foot a day there, literally. Lived outside Chicago for ten years. The humidity from being close to lake Michigan was bone chilling in the winter time. Hard to get warm. No thanks. I hate the heat of Texas summers but the cold in the rest of the country is worse. Far worse. He'll learn. I've been in Texas on and off since 2012. Have family in Tucson Arizona. Winters are wonderful here. You have to look at it as winter is summer time in Austin and summer is winter time.
You're absolutely right the city was different (and better) 20+ years ago, in fact as a Texan it has gone from my favorite city in Texas to one I now actively avoid along with Houston. Dont get me wrong, it still has many of the things that made it awesome prior to about 15 years ago, it just seems forced these days..and the city has lost most of "small big town" charm it once had. There has always been money in Austin but in the past it peacefully coexisted with broke college students and starving musicians who somehow made enough money to live in the city. These days UT-Austin may as well be an ivy league school if parents have to help their kids with the cost of off campus housing. As for the musicians? I suppose they either have quite a commute to their 6th street gigs, or alternately live in one of the ever increasing homeless camps. Yes, tech companies moving into any area can be both a blessing and curse.
Your governor is actively recruiting California based companies to relocate to Texas, specifically Austin as a new tech hub. Expect housing prices to continue to increase, traffic to get worse and the social problems that come with wage disparity pushing those living on the edge to wind up pushing shopping carts and living in pop-up tent cities. Success has its price.
6. Property Tax is high. 7. There is really no social safety net. No MediCal. A huge part percentage of the population has zero medical coverage, because many jobs simply don't offer it and no paid family/ maternity leave unless your job offers it and again most employers don't 8. Weed is still illegal in Texas 9. Minimum wage is still 7.25 per hour 10. Ice...freezing rain is common in winter in the DFW area and points north and west and icy roads cause things like school businesses government offices and overpasses to close. 11. Critters that will eat you...gators, big cats mosquitos , chiggers, ants and critters that will just bite like various venomous snakes, scorpions, coyotes etc.
@@RainsWorldVegasSlots more of a contrast really. If you're ok with exploitive labor practices and humidity and bugs and lack of medical coverage and weed prohibition then yes Texas is for you.
I was born and raised in the san francisco bay area. Ive been in austin for 4 years. What i miss most is the lack of nature. There is like no natural open spaces like the bay area or california in general. People think of texas as this rustic outdoors adventureland. It couldnt be farther from the truth… I miss the open spaces that you escape to and walk/run/hike forever and reconnect with the trees and breath taking natural beauty…. I miss the ocean, beaches, etc. Overall, This area lacks natural beauty. Its boring in that respect. Its also way less cultural diverse and less food options. The crime rate in south austin is getting worse everyday. I think the crime rated nearly doubled down there in the last year. What i like about this area is that it is VERY calm and peaceful. It doesnt have that intensity and stress of the bay area. This helps balance out some of the things listed above. The one thing you need to realize about the affordable housing is that the property tax is roughly 3+%. The house prices are rising fast and this 3% chunk is huge. The heat is extreme from june-sept. Like high 90s with moderate humidity. You basically stay indoors from 10-6. Or stay in the shade. If youre into fancy coffee, you’ll love austin. The other fun thing about austin is that you have the river flowing through downtown. There are three bridges that provide a cool layout for hanging out and walking/runing through the manmade city landscape. Lots of fit people can be seen in and around the downtown river trail.
You are correct if you stay in Austinfornia. Texas is full of opportunity you just have to put forth a little more effort to enjoy raw nature. It is not like Disney Land where you have guided tours in a motorized buggy while sipping you $20.00 coffee. You need to put forth a little effort like paddling a kayak down a quite river, or hike in the mountains of west Texas. You are just spoiled bratts talking trash about the state we love!
Barton Creek Greenbelt Barton Springs Bull Creek Greenbelt Spicewood Park Walnut Creek Greenbelt Walnut Creek Hike and Bike Town lake hike and bike Krause Speings Marble Galls Inks Lake Paleface Hamilton Pool City Park 360 Bridge Park Wild Basin nature preserve Enchanted Rock San Marcos lakes Enjoy!
What i miss most is the lack of nature. There is like no natural open spaces like the bay area or california in general. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- You are correct. And here's the reason why. It goes back to the red/blue debate. California has tons of state parks and other PUBLIC places. Texas (outside Austin) is a vast public wasteland. It's all private property. And why? Because that's what republicans (red) wants. Red doesn't want public spaces. Texas has few state parks, zero bureau of land management areas, and just a few federal public lands (i.e. Big bend National Park). I live in west Texas; and I would love it if there were more natural areas like California has. But it's not going to happen so long as red runs the state.
Nailed it! I’m a full blooded Texan, and have lived all over Texas. In the last few years, property values have doubled, tripled. Just eight years ago, Texas used to be an affordable place to live in any town or city. Not anymore. Texans are trying to cash in on the non-natives. It’s absurd.
California's exit is driving up prices in Montana, Idaho, and Tennessee as well. Wherever they go they have made it unaffordable for most working folks.
Not to be heartless;But to those of us who are older,THIS is not OUR problem.Along with all the OTHER problems the internet introduced;the housing issue belongs to our younger generations!
I'm a NYer living in LA and I still love it here. Yes there are many problems, but for me the good still outweighs the bad by far. I tell people complaining about LA and CA in general, you don't have any idea what you're getting into when you move out of here because a lot of the rest of the country has things people have to put up with that just don't exist here (think politics, extreme weather; low wages; different intellectual interests, different attitudes about minority populations, mosquitos, biting flies, killer humidity, snow and ice storms); and you're giving up amenities here that don't necessarily exist elsewhere. I lived in Miami--loved it; wouldn't go back. I lived in Phoenix--liked it; wouldn't go back. I lived in Queens and Manhattan--loved it; wouldn't go back. Lots of people love Texas, and that's great. But know what you're getting into.
I moved to Texas from Los Angeles 20 years ago. I love living in Fort Worth, but I definitely miss California. I would love to move back home, but it's too expensive.
My regrets to move to Frisco, TX. 1) Weather 2) Foods 3) High Property Tax 4) Politics 5) Higher Racism 6) Road System 7) No Nature - SoCal has beautiful beaches, mountains and deserts. Yes, I MISS CALIFORNIA. Yes, I will go back.
Ironically, I have faced LESS racist in Austin. In CA ppl were describing others using derogatory phrasing. The crime was so bad I HAD to move for safety. TX seems to judge people by their productivity rather than their roots.
Move out of Dallas GMA. There is plenty around you nature and all that. Hell your maybe 45 min from witchtall falls. There's 5-6 forested parks and camps near you. Several lakes and cave formations. Plenty of nature. Leaving the area you'd have a bit of a drive but prop taxes would be lower. Weather can't do much about but hey it's not fire.
I grew up in Texas and also lived in California for a long time. I left California this last time because of the taxes and the screwed up regulations and laws. I moved to Nevada. The biggest problem with people from California moving away because California is such a screwed up state is that they continue voting like Californians. Austin is probably one of the worst places to move to. Not only because of the prices but also because they have adopted California like policies.
I moved to Texas from Chicago. It's so frustrating to meet other transplants still voting dem/lib. I moved here for the hospitality, the freedoms, and to escape failed Democrat policies.
Democratic policies are nowhere near as failed as republican policies. Look at states like Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Kentucky. All conservative and red republican and all impoverished, underdeveloped, and undereducated. Look at Texas and it’s privately managed yet highly fragile electric grid. If any policies are failures, it is republican policies.
@@r.pres.4121 Unlike in CA where they beg you not to charge your car and where they buy power from neighboring states. Where you literally need to watch where you step in what used to be a beautiful city. Where you pay almost as much in taxes as you do for gas. Brandon screwed the country starting day one by shutting down the energy industry. Keep your f'ed up policies.
@Matthew my heart breaks for you. Austin used to be such an awesome place to visit/live. The poor leadership of the city and the liberal agenda have turned it to 💩. I miss the old Austin. Was it perfect, no. But it was safer, cleaner and happier. I fight with my vote the best I can. But I agree, we need solidarity to stand up against failed dem policies they are sneaking into the texas system.
Excellent review! Thanks for your honesty! I would never move to Texas under any circumstances! California , overall, is the best place to live, period!
It's silly to say anywhere is the best place to live, period. Different people have different needs and wants. No place is the best for everyone. Maybe it is best for you (maybe not, how do you know, especially if you've not lived, traveled, researched anywhere else extensively?).
After living in Texas practically my whole life so far ( mostly Ft. Worth also Austin ) and someone that used to love summer ,this has gotten to be too much !! This past summer I thought many times of the year I lived in Laguna Beach or the several sailing vacations in San Francisco Bay where many times needed a heavy jacket in August ! Remember Mark Twain said , " The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco ! " My sites now would be set on California's central coast . Money is really the only issue. If I could step outside on a summer day and the high was 75°, my day wouldn't be affected wondering how people voted !? People have said it a lot this year and I believe it, If you don't have a pool or own a boat ( expensive to run and maintain ) than you are a prisoner in your own house for several months . Everyone else copes by going to New Mexico or Colorado for a few weeks every summer .... But there is something about seeing and hearing that Pacific Ocean everyday . ⛵
Austin Texas used to be affordable ,but when the tech companies, and many California people moved there, that's when all the rents and properties became too expensive to afford,especially for native Texans, Texas is hot,and Austin is the worse place for allergies!!!!
@Amanda Ross You may be wrong about that considering I live in a 1100 square foot house made in 1971 and the city says this starter house that should sell for 180,000 the city access it's value at 540,000
It's all relative. It's a drop in the bucket for most Californians, but will price out most native Texans. I have a feeling that there's going to be a mass exodus of Texans searching for the next cheapest state.
@@fvr12345 Austin was ranked #1 city to live in from 2017-2019. Since then it's dropped and today it's # 40. I'm sure being the 5th most expensive large U.S city for renters is one of the reasons...
@@fvr12345 TX became so in style that by now it is out of style! I like that Tulsa might be the next Austin. That would be ironic if we got a conservative celebrity in office in CA that would turn it red & TX would move here!
As a native Texan born and raised in Travis county !Left in 1987 moved to Florida moved back to Houston in 2005 because Austin was already overpriced.I love my home state but found Missouri more affordable plus my in laws are here . I find many folks from California moving here too .The Lone Star state will always be home but MY hometown I was raised in has changed and I’m not sure it’s for the better .Love your content and your channel
Love all the Austin images! I graduated in 2002 and last visited Austin in the mid-2000s. Already in the mid-90s people were complaining about all those "Damn Californians" who were "ruining" Austin. By now, I'm sure I wouldn't recognize my old home. But I still miss that place, something fierce! Funny story: back in the 90s, Austinites complained about all the Californians coming to Austin, driving up the home prices, and causing traffic congestion. So what did they do? Move to Bastrop, Round Rock, Marble Falls, etc. - whereupon, the residents of those little towns started complaining about all the Austinites moving to town, driving up home prices, causing traffic congestion...
Number 5 is the selling point for me to come to Austin hahaha. Lived in LA 2011 - 2022 and loved it, so its awesome to hear that Austin is becoming very "Californian" while still giving opportunity for a new life experience. love how Austin has a huge wellness culture and with all the tech boom, its PERFECT. But still close enough to Dallas and Houston to do some weekend trips and indulge in that Texan culture. SO EXCITED FOR TEXAS! Great video thank you!
People who leave California who lived in large coastal municipalities to move to large Texas municipalities are simply exchanging one liberal/progressive/democrat area for another and all the associated problems/issues that plague California. So they are not really changing anything but geography. More people, more problems (and bigger problems). Paradise is only paradise if there are few people living there. The downside fewer amenities.
As a 68 year old native Californian, I can tell you that every time I see that our pop. is approaching 40 million, I freak the f**k out. Which brings me to the main thing wrong with CA. That is, that there are just too damn many people here. 40 years of NIMBY and R1 zoning preventing affordable housing from being built and you get a flood of homeless with no where to go. My advise to people in other states...stay put, allow people to build affordable housing and don't let NIMBY attitudes ruin 'your' state.
Texas is over 30million wait until it hits that 40 million mark and the cities start getting strained with traffic rising crime you will start saying the same thing.😂
California being blamed for all downfalls in every city/ town is exhausting. Progress is what America's all about. People act like the only tech people came from California, there's plenty of tech savvy people here, which is why this is happening. The alarming part is lack of water and infrastructure to support this growth.
I live in San Antonio Texas and I am originally from California. I moved to Texas for many of the same reasons other people do. Lower cost of living, I stayed income tax, a lot politically conservative environment and my second amendment rights aren't being threatened here. Now I do make deliveries every week as part of my job to Austin. Austin is a beautiful city and does have a lot of interesting culture. But it is quickly becoming another Seattle or San Francisco. Many homeless, very liberal views and it's not cheap to live there. Sure there are a lot of high-tech jobs. But that only serves to drive with the prices of everything. With so many homeless on the street everywhere, it's like some place in California you've seen repeatedly.
Why Californians REGRET Moving to Austin Texas | 5 BIG Reasons? Reason#1 Facebook is moving its world headquarter to Austin, Texas. It is building its 66 floor office/condo/shopping tower all in one.
Californian reporting in. I moved to Austin in April 2021 and left when my lease expired in July 2022. Was offered renewal with a 25% rent increase. Even with my normal rent, Austin was 100% not worth it. The city is boring, the food is mediocre, and prices are not low except for gas. Totally overhyped. Living in Chicago now and it’s amazing here.
Two brothers left California! One moved to Texas and regrets it. The other moved to Utah and loves it. Cant step off the highway in Texas without trespassing, zero public land. While Utah has millions of acres of public land to freely recreate on.
@@maryjogreen1706 I'm sorry,I guess I shouda said that I Love Utah:BUT,I'm not IN Love with Utah!!Definitely not enough to consider moving there,too expensive!Kinda desolate,boring'ish.But beautiful.
12:41 WTH, the founder of Dell is a Texan, born in Houston Texas. Dell has always been in Texas, AFAIK. Dell didn't move there. Same for IBM, it's not a transplant. It's been there over 50 years.
I truly try to have an open mind about Californians moving in and do my darndest to give ‘em a chance, but doggone if some of em are trying hard to turn my beloved TX into Cali. Embrace our culture. If you cannot, just stay where you’re from.
The hot weather is a real killer for me. I lived in Texas for one year and hated the weather to the point that when I drove out of Texas I vowed never to set foot in Texas again. Of course with climate change, where I grew up (Western Washington), is now to hot in the summer and even here on the coast of Maine we have about a month every summer that is too hot for human life (i.e., above 80F). Of course, here all I have to do to beat the heat is head out on my boat for a few days.
Governor Abbott is actively promoting businesses (tech and others) to relocate to Texas. So if you want a place to turn your anger into action - you need look no further than the Governor of your State.
I remember Victor Davis Hansen talking on this, he basically said you know, it’s bad when people flee to either extreme temperatures with scorpions and snakes, or extreme cold with blizzards and snow from a mild climate like California. When you actually look into it, you see people are Truly fleeing to some of the most inhospitable climates just to get away from liberalism, which unfortunately many bring along with them. I’m kind of of the mentality if you voted for this, you should be forced to stick with it.
People vote with their feet and their wallets. Nobody wants anyone telling them where they can live or move to. Only a commie thinks that way. More freedom to choose where to go and live their life is the American way.
We were thinking about moving to Texas during the Pandemic. It seemed like a good idea with extremely low interest rates and affordable housing in the Lone Star state being eons lower than California. But then good thing we watch the news bc it seems Texas attracts some of the worst extreme types of weather you can think of-----tornadoes, ice storms, floods, blazingly hot humid summers. I am afraid of humidity and heat. In California we have heat, but no humidity, so one of two ain't bad. Also we noticed crime rates were on the rise in Texas as well. Finally, we asked ourselves: "Why bother?" We're also not in agreement with Gov. Abbott's policies and his undying support for Trump. Right now, we're glad we stayed put. CA has a lot of problems, but now we realize so does Texas.
Correct. Crime here in Austin is def on the rise. The 7/11 up the street from my apt got robbed at gun point a couple months ago, and you hear about people being shot all over North Austin. My rent has gone up over $500 the past two years so I am very much on the lookout for a new neighborhood
@@sylviacorwin9182 insects and allergies are a problem in CA, differs by climate. Long hay fever season in CA. Some of the coastal areas are rife with molds, especially NorCal. I'm allergic to grass, mold, dust mites, etc. Essentially, I'm a year round allergy sufferer, anywhere. I take my meds, I have a neti pot, I drink as much water as possible. Insect issues vary, but bird killing sewer gas doesn't help. In the some areas they put out tabs in standing water. Some of the SoCal lake areas, the mosquitoes have been much worse this year. I'm not sure anyone is doing anything. Literally throwing out larva every morning, just giving the cats fresh water.
The brutally honest truth is Austin was cheaper, calmer more polite place BEFORE lots of people moving here and voting for the same crap that turned California blue, woke and more expensive. Hopefully some go back
I've been trying to relocate but im seeing videos saying don't move to California don't move to Florida and now don't move to Texas, next thing you know there will be a video that say don't even breathe.
I feel that what is happening in Austin is because of a lot of people from California moving into the area and bringing all of their "baggage" with them. You may not wish to talk about it but politics has a major component to it. When CA was more "balanced" politicly it was a great place to live but now not so much. People are being paid to be homeless here, they get money each month from the state as well as free smartphones. What really needs to happen is a major reset politicly and see that it the root cause. People that move and take their politics with them will kill the area just like it is here in CA. I understand and support the opinion of a vast majority of Texans. It is OK to have different opinions but to hate your neighbor just because they do not think like you think is horrible. I have always wanted to go to Austin just because of SXSW but I am not sure I will even do that now...
The globalists who are bringing in this great reset control grid hate Texas and the freedom it’s always stood for and have attacked the grid and it’s a target I agree with everything you said about the politics of it but now I see it as a very dangerous place to live
You should still go to visit, it's a cool city no matter where youre from originally. Having said that, dont expect San Francisco in the middle of Texas. I've lived both places (San Fran was admittedly only 6 months and Austin was nearly 20 years ago) and there are more differences than simularities, (not just the weather) but I also get why people make the comparison, but thats only compared to the other cities in Texas.
How rich is Gov New some? Where is all the money going for the state? I know Californians pay big tax dollars, depending on how much they make. Where is all that money actually going?
Hi there, from Colorado. Great information in this video!! Thank you for sharing your prospective. I am a-political too. I generally don't listen to the politics. And, I enjoy people....and wish we all got along better. We have been looking into Mexico locations to begin wintering after I quit working in a few years. This led to that....and I shifted the look to southern AZ, Vegas, and SoCal. AZ and CA are places I have mostly only been exposed to since I began my current job 5 years ago. I really enjoy both places. Ultimately, we chose CA and will close on a condo in Palm Springs this week. I retired out of the Army. Having talked to a few friends since we went into contract in CA, there is a very defined boundary between my friends.....if they don't like CA, they think I am crazy to chose there. If they do, then it was a good move. Regardless...I really like that area, stay out of the politics, and don't get involved in stuff that divides people. Enjoy Austin!! It is a fun city!! I have been there a few times for work. Those were fall trips and it was awesome. I went back on a personal trip in June. Many of the days were > 100 deg....and I really did not care for it. I tend to favor non humid places
Well what I say is if you want to move elsewhere from California is ok but just remember that it will be difficult to return to CA. But more folks are coming than leaving.
You’re 100%correct on all the points Austin is already over crowded and very expensive the natural beauty of Austin is better than the rest of Texas however the heat is everywhere in Texas also Austin is the San Francisco of Texas it’s the party city
Austin was poorly managed before the tech companies and others coming here. It’s doubled in population since like 1990 and yet they refuse to build any public transit, roads with more than 2-3 lanes and tons of tolls. Just all the suburban sorawl low density housing. Still love it though. I’m in Houston myself so I always love driving 360 and 2222 on the hills since it’s pancake flat here lol. And loveeee the less humidity compared to here. You step outside and you’re hit in the face with a wet blanket… that was just in the oven 😭😭
Since the early 90's Austin has always had heavy construction and homeless people. One thing about Austin is when it rains the water is very cold, another thing about Austin you can find a really good deal on used vehicles.
Property taxes in Texas are some of the highest in the country. The property taxes on a $480,000 home in Los Angeles will cost roughly the same as a $200,000 house in Austin.
Thank you for the vid, Austin has good points like any other city, it all depends on what folks want to buy into. BORN and Grazed in California, Unfortunately every dog has their day and Texas will have it's. Ya'll think things stay the same, they don't; there's a season for every time. Enjoy the back and forth of Texas vs Cali it's all moot. Every nut and fruit cake will come to Austin and every other city in Texas hopefully you grow old before it happens and enjoy these good ole days while you have them. I lived in Houston for 5 years nice times. But Houston today is done! Pretend it's the same it's not. So goes the US, find your corner of the world and enjoy you life, no matter where that might take you, it's an adventure. Everyday above ground is a good day. Texas ❤ vs Cali Love. Good folks in both states of mind.
To those Texans worried about California transplants changing their state: don't worry. No Californian in his right mind would stay in Texas more than a few years. I was born, raised and spent most of my adult life in CA, and bought a house in San Antonio about ten years ago. The smartest thing I ever did was NOT sell my house in the San Francisco Bay Area. Every year, I find more reasons to prefer CA over TX. Texas' one big advantage--lower cost of living--is offset by the "you get what you pay for" syndrome. Having a "vacation house" in CA acts as a relief valve for me, otherwise Texas would drive me crazy. I wish there were more stories about the TURNOVER of transplants, i.e., Californians moving to Texas and then either moving back to CA, or on to other states like TN or Fl.
One big regret people from the west have moving out to Texas is the lack of outdoor freedom. The west coast has vast tracts of open forests and mountains that can be roamed year round, but the parks and open land to the citizens of Texas are tiny by comparison and it’s too hot anyways half the year. Don’t move to Texas if you like going into the outdoors.
I was born and raised in Southern California. My wife’s job brought us to Fort Worthless, TX. I came here kicking and screaming. California might be a mess politically but you can’t beat the weather, mountains/hills, the marine layer, flip flops and board shorts 365 days a year, superior drivers that don’t tailgate…as far as living in California all the good things far outweigh the bad.
I live in Texas and it's my favorite state. It doesn't sound like your real issue is with Texas. It sounds like your issue is with your own wife. And hopefully, she doesn't read what you wrote about her contribution to your unhappiness here on the worldwide stage of the Internet.
I grew up in Houston and one summer we were at a Church Camp out near Junction. One of the questions that was asked everyone was to guess the temperature at noon. The highest guess was 89. Actually the temperature was 110, but at 20% humidity and most of us from SE Texas were used to square days - 95 degrees at 95% humidity. Several decades ago I was sent back by my employer to go through a closing at our plant in Orange, Texas and over the July 4 weekend I took the opportunity to visit my parents in Houston. I thought it was fairly comfortable and was surprised that the actual temperature that day was 107 but the relative humidity was 17% (a very dry summer for that area). As we used to say, it's not the heat that gets you, it's the humidity for the lower the humidity the cooler your skin will be.
I live close to Fort Worth but I took my Mom to look at houses in Orange,Texas a couple of years ago and I would live there if I ever sold my place here. Thought it was a pretty cool place!
@@carlinshowalter1806 I actually lived in Orange for a couple of years after my MBA when I worked for Owen's Illinois at the paper mill just north of town. (Now Inland Container). That was summer of 1976 the summer of 1978, the I was transferred to South Georgia. Followed by several more moves.
if people could put their politics aside and acknowledge one another's humanity, there wouldn't be much of a problem. i've never lived in california but i've lived in texas for the past 31 years. i haven't really had any problems with anyone other than those who are really adamant about their politics who i don't care much for whether blue or red. i don't vote so when i encounter people, i treat them the same way the treat me.
When they start letting people out of jail, taxes go up, gas goes up, food goes up, drugs users every and the homeless is out of control you will want to start voting!!
@@denisemunoz7954 at 51 i don't vote and don't vote. both parties have an agenda that doesn't sign with my own so spare me with that. gas prices have gone up and then they went down. people go to jail and are let out all the time. violence is the nature of humanity and America yet i still don't vote.
I’ve been in Dallas for ten years and I don’t think the heat is that bad. I also lived in Vegas for five years where everyone says yeah but it’s a dry heat, but I’ve found summer in Vegas to be much more exhausting than a Texas summer
I worked for a large manufacturer in Los Angeles a few years back. I loved that job and the company. The weather was beautiful. Having said that i will take the heat over earth quake which happened often, fires which happened often and the occasional mudslides. If those weren’t so common place I might have moved there.
Austin has street poop, tent cities, cancel culture, crime, far left politics, weirdos everywhere, extremely high rent, and ridiculous home prices. If you are trying to get away from these sort of things in California, Austin TX is not the place to relocate. You are basically just moving to Texas's version of LA or SF....except it's hotter than hell, property taxes are outrageous, and there is no ocean
I left California and I’m as conservative as they come but this is a massive over exaggeration. I just got back from LA where I saw 20 homeless people on one block. I’m regularly downtown Austin, I don’t see 20 in total. Ever since they passed that proposition to stop camping in public they have moved them out of the city. crime is definitely up in Austin, but it’s still like 5% of major of American cities. High rent, agree. Home prices, agree. Cancel culture and far left? Don’t think so really. It’s a liberal city but I’ve ran into to a lot more conservatives, especially women surprisingly.
@@anthonyr587 guess where the homeless come from? I'll give you a clue, it is next to Louisiana. Yep they give them a 1 way ticket straight to California. You saw 20 homeless in 1 block? Well my friend you sound ignorant because you are making it sound like there are homeless all over the place, they have areas like skid row downtown which is about 2 blocks where that is possible, but let's stop pretending that California is a small place, you don't see homeless in most cities, you do see them in areas where they are more tourists just like in any other major city.
@@CanyonsCarver Wrong. I lived in DTLA up until a year and a half ago and regularly go back and have friends there. They are spread all over LA apart from the gated communities now. I'll educate you on the homeless there, not the other way around. I've seen the same homeless people for years down there, some were bussed out of other Cali cities and states, some weren't. But, if you don't want to encourage homelessness in your City then pass policies to prevent it. I also visited San Diego a few months ago where it is now RIFE there as well. And SF is exactly the same. Perhaps you need to leave your house and stop listening to the CNN version of events?
@@anthonyr587 I can guarantee you I know California more than you do, your misinformation is from Faux News you have nothing to offer since I have worked in shelters downtown for 25 years every major cities have homeless, that includes LA, SD and SF but it is not like you said, they are in a tiny part of those cities and mostly around the shelters. Policies? Most of these people you see in the streets have mental health issues, they don't want to be in a shelter they are paranoid, afraid someone is going to kill them or poison their food, that's why you see them in the streets instead of the provided shelters. You have no clue whatsoever, you are too busy playing politics hoping Californians are dumb enough to vote republican, nobody here wants to go backwards and be associated with toothless hillbillies.
As for Californians, I have no problems with them and I welcome them to Texas. I’m not from Texas myself so we have things in common. One thing that I notice about a lot of them is that they are spoiled in terms of weather and scenary. There is no other place in the US that is similar to Cali. Not even Florida as it’s flat and just lack the vibe that you get out west. If Californians want to move away from their state, they have to be fine with things being different. In other states, we actually have weather lol!
Bro ....go Puerto Penasco ! Is on Pacific Ocean!everything is very ,very cheap and H.Q.You and your wife will pay no more then $16 a day (lunch and dinner ).Nice and Clean and no traffic!$200/mth for a studio .
I live in Napa. I just cannot afford to purchase here. I am moving to Killeen. I have visited there several times and I think Ill do okay since im used to military towns. I appreciate the diversity from the military too. Austin has a lot of Californians moving there... My kid who lives in Houston said its the "New Hippie town" or "Silicon Valley" according to her and her friends. I love the weather. Killeen is less expensive to purchase and central to everything imo.
@@tonimoreland6870 don't move to killeen. It's a shit hole. In 2020 they had the highest homicide rate for the city. The only year that came close to that was back in 90s in the lubys massacre. Move to copperas cove where it's quiet and safer than killeen.
From a person that lives in SF I can definitely agree with you, I try to put myself in that same mindset that there’s probably going to be different weather that I’m not used to and probably not going to like, but it’s so hard for me because I’m so used to having “good weather” that when I don’t, I feel like there’s something wrong😅😅😅
If any of you Californications are not happy here in Texas, go on back to that out house basement (family friendly) that you came from and don't try to muck things up here.
You forgot the Property Taxes are 4 times higher than California, I had an Uncle build a home in El Paso to retire, and he wound up moving to South Dakota where there's lower taxes and no restriction easy living
What in earth is "restrictions on easy living"? I live in Texas just outside Houston on 100 acres that I only paid $400K for in 2013. My property is Ag Exempt because I let beekeepers keep bees on my property. I pay $800 a year in property taxes on 100 acres. Trying that in California. Let me see you buy 100 acres outside LA for $400K and only pay $800 in property taxes.
As a Texan, I am willing to greet anyone with a smile and a handshake and welcome them to what, I consider, is the best country 😉in the US. That being said, please don't move here and try to change it to the place y'all left.
I moved here from Chicago. I vote to avoid Democrat policies and governing. I pray all these people from Cali and New York wake up!!! Beto wants to implement a state income tax. 🤬
I see Texas going Blue come 2028 or sooner. Reason is because Texas has 5 growing cities, and those people will outnumber the rural count. There's even right leaners in Oregon pissed at Portland, who seriously want Idaho to move their border more to encompass them.
@@candysmith8724 That abortion ban, his positions and lies on why the grid failed, letting anyone have assault rifles, and his border tricks are infinitely more stupid. Times are changing, and the numbers aren't lying. Texas will go Blue for the same reason that AZ went Blue. May not be in 2022, but definitely before the decade is over.
I went to Texas a lot in the 70s as my paternal grandfather retired to Corpus Christi. We even lived near Austin for 18 months in 1975/76 in what was then a rural area but is now solid suburbia. Even then when Texas was really Texas I didn't care for it but could see why so many others did. I was so happy to return the West where I've lived ever since. It is interesting to hear about how much Austin is changed. I won't be visiting TX anytime soon if ever and I wish the best of luck to those that would live there now.
Third generation native Texan and have never lived close to Austin. We call it the People’s Republic of Austin. There is a slogan-Keep Austin Weird. That’s definitely true. Don’t try to change Texas to your California anything.
I honestly liked the fact that Texas is somewhat in the middle politically. Both sides are too much in one ideology belief. The point of this country was for people to debate and find a compromise
6th generation Texan here um for the record this summer was mild actually the last 7 summers have been very mild for Austin, there have been many summers of 5 + months of 100+ heat lol but it's good for your soul some people pay crazy money for the sauna we just go outside...
Everywhere has this issue. Here in Connecticut the New York invasion was for years contained in Fairfield County. The rest of the state welcomed it as it bought a lot of wealth . From the 1970s on the New York invasion spread to the rest of the state. Changing the face of the state from bucolic New England towns , farms and woods to the now forever change to urban sprawl of high cost, 2nd homes, suburbia and Liberalism. The only answer is to live as far from any urban center you can possibly find in hopes it all doesn't catch up to you.
#1 property tax. Buy a home and you tax is adjusted to the price you paid. So you get neighbor homeowners paying $1500/yr and new owners paying $6000/yr for basically the same house and services. Phoenix doesn't adjust tax to new owner's price. So if the previous owner was paying $1500 then you will too no matter what price you pay. The county does adjust home values up and down but that happens to all homes regardless of being sold or not. Basically Texas has an extra tax for people moving there and buying.
I think the high property taxes prevent investors from buying properties in mass and renting them out. If anything they should increase property taxes for 2nd and 3rd homes on up and scale it, but reduce taxes for their main residence.
6:03 YAY! After seeing Iowa and NY where the cold air hits your face like a glacier I welcome the oven air. That said, you guys should really plant more trees
I wouldn’t necessarily blame Californians for the state of things in Austin. It’s about tech workers in general moving there. The techies destroyed SF and are a cancer anywhere they migrate…however if you’ve owned real estate for a long time, you’ll benefit.
I have traveled and lived in many many places and not just in the USA. I can honestly say that there is nowhere in the world that can really beat California. I have never found anywhere yet that is perfect but California is about as good as it gets.
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Ca use to be a red state. It needs to retune to be a Red state!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Texas use to be a blue state!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@JOHNDANIEL1 There is some people from ca who do not like blue.
@@JOHNDANIEL1 Ca use to be a red state. The Democrats which are blue have screwed up ca. Did you know ca use to be a red state?
@@JOHNDANIEL1 Ca needs to be a red state again.
As a person who has lived in Texas almost all my life, I hate the heat here. Your description of opening the oven and getting hit in the face with the blast of heat is 100% accurate.
Yes, but it’s a dry heat or humid? Cause I hate the humidity here in Florida.
I lived in SA for 13 years......the long summers were tough! Don't forget the high property taxes.
How many parts of Texas? We have everything if you look for it. Try Waco or Lubbock.
what? I can't deal with heat. Plan to move to Houston cancelled! Always preferred DALLAS anyway.
Born and raised in the Deep South( South Mississippi Creole and Cajun Country) and I live in San Antonio now and there's never a time when I will get used to the humidity and heat of the South. 36 years and still prefer climates like Cali or Massachusetts, but will never leave. It's all love
As someone who lived in San Francisco proper and also many years in the surrounding Bay Area, I must tell you that tech changed the Bay Area a lot. They attracted a lot of well paying jobs from all over the country, including Texas, thus displacing the long time residents and causing prices to go out of control. Now that all those CA tech companies are moving to Austin - good luck with keeping prices reasonable, giving space to locals, and reducing the homeless population. I predict that in 5-10 years people will be escaping Austin in a big way.
No surf here, few to no perfect weather days, very different (shitty) attitudes, not a lot of art, limited music styles. Oh they're so happy.....why?
We can only hope they leave the central Texas area
@@annettewhitehead751 Now you know how Californians, especially they bay area felt. They tried keeping these companies out and were accused of being anti capitalist communist. The big tech took over the region and look what all that Wall St money did to the communities. It's not a 'liberal' thing or the democrat politicians, of course they certainly didn't help and a part of the problem but the main problem are the multi billion and some case multi trillion dollar corporations that blew up the housing market. So get ready for a housing crisis and rising crime. And don't blame the 'liberals' or 'Californians' for those issue. It is a Wall St,/Federal Reserve/greedy capitalist creation that neither party are willing stop. They're both owned by the banks anyway
As a person who has lived in San Francisco an born an raised in Austin I agree with this message
they're doing it now, locals raised in Austin can't live there anymore
When I moved to Texas, I explored Dallas, San Antonio, Houston and Austin. Chose Houston and love it. Austin's major detractors: 1) limited properties for sale and very high prices. I would have been committing to the purchase of a home that would be built in 1-1.5 years WITHOUT having a set price on the property at the time of signing the contract. 2) It's the only city in Texas that has California-style homelessness and urban blight (those new high-rises look good until you explore the city on foot). Having lived 20 years in California, I can tell you that Austin is greatly impacted negatively by California transplants. If you're fleeing California, it might be wise to understand that the conditions you're fleeing are what you voted for.
Trying to accommodate people from states like Cali,is like attempting to help someone who was raised in an abusive home;Turmoil is all they've ever known!All they WANT to know(in some cases).Ex;A friend of mine married a girl who was from such a background,He was not.She tried to RE-CREATE that same type of atmosphere in THEIR home!Get the picture?
Houston has terrible flooding and very high humidity. There is also heavy taxes and impossible traffic too. Crime has gotten bad to the point where your vehicle can get stolen from a home in a high value neighborhood or even a popular shopping center. I know too many people that have gone through that. It is ridiculous for people to pick the city over many others across the country.
Have you seen the 3rd world cesspools that are Red states?
Austin is greatly impacted negatively by California transplants.
Does than mean that California transplants are ruining Austin?
"It's the only city in Texas that has California-style homelessness and urban blight" wOw do you even live in Texas. Dallas has a large homeless population. The Police are known for their sweeps. ALL the large cities in Texas have issues with homelessness. Of course all the large cities are ran by the Dems. As are ALL the places the US makes money! Those Californians are gonna change the voting patterns in a few years...Especially the folks that work for Elon Musk. "It's the only city in Texas that has California-style homelessness and urban blight" super ignorant thing to say...You must know nothing about where the homeless are, and why.
I've lived in Texas all my life. Been in Austin for 20 years. The sad reality is the city used to be about art and music. It had charm and a small town feel in a capitol city. With the transplants those things are pushed out and the reason for coming to Austin in the first place isn't here anymore.
I wish they would leave, all of TX
35 years in Austin. Totally agree. Austin is living off a reputation that doesn't reflect today's reality. Much like SF did for years.
@@jadetullos2684 more people means more opportunities as long as its managed right. Look at NYC, for all its flaws, businesses thrive with a larger customer base.
But yes austin politicians are attracting business without building infrastructure to accommodate for the increased population.
@@thunderb00m the same NY that has a horrible cost of living, politics, and is losing its citizens and businesses? Nah, I’m good. We’re getting opportunities, because we’re business friendly here. Transplants bring their traffic, crappy driving and politics, and high cost of living here, which makes it more difficult for single parents and people that didn’t turn their state into a wasteland to have a decent quality of life, never mind be able to own a home.
@@jadetullos2684 you sound like a teenager, face the reality, grow up and take it or leave it
My parents moved us to Austin in 1963. Now, 60 years later, my sister is being forced out of her home due to the UNREASONABLY HIGH property taxes due to the inflated value of homes. It’s sad that longtime Austinites whose income is not on the same inflated pace as taxes, have to try to find more affordable housing at a great distance from here.
Property taxes in California aren't that bad because of proposition 13. But all the other taxes are bad!
So much for the benefit of living in a Red state.
My family moved to Kyle in 1856. They lived in San Marcos for many decades but my grandpa went to UT and settled in Austin the in 1950s. By the 1970s he was printing bumper stickers reading "Austin: comforting the afflicted, afflicting the comfortable." Austin has sucked long before the culture vultures arrived.
Texas has always had exorbitant property taxes. I had a house in Galveston I had to give up in 2015 and there are no jobs in Galveston unless you work in medical. Of coursexwakmaert type jobs at low pay are there.
Lets go Brandon😂
Never let regret keep you in a relationship. I’m sure California would take you all back
Yes come back home to Cali the Great Out West 😁
@@pla4825yeah the golden state!
Something people need to bare in mind regarding homelessness. It's increasing everywhere and has been for a while
Thank the U.S. government!
I agree 100%
True, in blue cities and Austin is solid blue so you are essentially moving from Commiefornia, CA to Commiefornia, TX
You know what's not solid blue! States like florida and texass where human trafficking governors ship their homeless all across the nation
that’s what happens when prices start to increase
Californian here… been to Texas many times to visit. Never been a big fan. Even tried living in Florida for a number of years and moved back to California. Hard to beat the West Coast for me. So this will be one less Californium coming to Texas (which some will be happy about).
Thank you for not coming to Texas.
Yes, Stay in California. We have bugs, guns and freedom. You would hate it here.
@@SOLDOZERand the most school shootings and ugly scenery
@@SOLDOZERand bigots, lots of bigots 🥴
@@roygorman6624 😂😂😂
Growing up on the West Coast of California, the worst part about leaving is the weather, the forests, red woods, California coastline, 4 seasons, the beauty. Everything else sucks, it's just a beautiful place to live.
"Growing up on the west coast of California." Is there another coast in California?
4 seasons in California?, not along the coast where most people live (or live near), that would be the mountainous regions in the far North and Eastern part of the state.
Definitely do not have four seasons in most of California
@@scottyee707 they have 4 seasons everywhere. They are just more subtle. Ha.
@@mikelouis2118 California is a wide state. There is the Central Valley and the border regions like the Inland Empire. They are totally noncoastal and do not have the redwoods or the beaches. I live off the beach, so I am a coastal Californian, which means the weather is temperate. The Inland Empire, by contrast, is typically 100 degrees in October.
Born and raised in Texas but lived in El Segundo for 5 years before moving back due to the cost of living there. I missed the cool nights in LA and the beauty the state offers. Although I appreciate Texas, I find that the weather and natural landscapes do not quite measure up to those of California.
Thanks for that :-) it’s good to see that in this common section there are actually adults here that show open mindedness, and are willing to recognize both the upside and down sides of both places. So far in this comment section I’m seeing a lot whiny little babies who just want to blame their problems on everyone else. Thank you.
Nobody should live in Texas but Texans, it's just not a suitable place for outsiders. Spread the word, don't let Californians ruin their lives by moving to Texas. Help those Californians realize the huge huge mistake of moving to Texas. Oregon, Washington, Vegas, Arizona but not Texas. Just trying to help those wonderful Californian natives.
I’ve been helping more and more people come back to California. Everyone should do their research by watching videos like this one before moving. Unfortunately, they have to pay twice as much to buy into their old neighborhood. Great video!
Just because of politics, I would never live in California!!!!
Just wait until all those who moved to Florida who said why didn't I do this sooner get hit with a massive hurricane season.... that is why folks! That will help prop up crashing prices for a little bit.
can you help me get out of texas my family lives in santa monica and im trying to escape houston lmaoo
@@anitagolke1678 good! Stay there!
Please keep them out of CA. We don’t want them back!
As a former resident of both Austin and SoCal, I can attest to your honest assessment of both places. GOOD JOB!
Austin has changed so much in 12 years! We came to Austin from California and it’s changed so much. Many , many, many people here…very crowded. We wouldn’t mind moving to the beautiful Sierras. We spent lots of time there as kids. Btw, we are retired and property taxes will more than likely push me out if something happens to my husband.
Please stay there. We don’t want you back.
Sounds like Callifornia it was great, then in the 70s the entire east coast moved there and that was that.
I've lived here 30 years and I agree if something happens to my husband I will lose my home.
I live in the Sierras of California.
Since y'all are retired I would think y'all might soon qualify for the senior tax exemption? I'm pretty sure my parents will get that when my mom turns 65 next year. Texas is nothing like the way it was - I don't even recognize it anymore. I live south of San Antonio and what was once quiet country, it's looking like a compact metropolis. I can't stand San Antonio.
I was a kid in California, I'm currently in Austin.
I go back to California as much as I can.
No place like home ❤I don’t care what people said about California. I LOVE California. Thank you Jesus Christ for California. You are amazing thank you for sharing this with us. God bless you 🙏🙏
I'm sure Jesus has nothing to do with California as a whole.
@@abundantharmonyAccording to the Christian faith, Jesus preached love and acceptance, so theoretically, he would be more in line with a place like California than, say, much of the south. If you believe in God, that is.
Ditto. California is a wonderful place and I feel lucky to be from here.💖Haters gonna hate, while ignoring that every state has its problems.
@@purplemist7 Uh, no. He preached directly against homosexuality and ALL other sin, as does the rest of the Bible. Jesus doesn't "love" people to hell.
@@abundantharmony doesnt exist
California really needs a channel promoting it… California is not all skid row or the tenderloin… every time I see it on the news or videos discussing California it’s the same couple of streets that are really bad in the most expensive cities. Most states are worse off compared to California and most places in California are really nice if you don’t hyper focus on those same couple of streets. I was in SF the other day and it’s so nice in most of the city. Good weather, amazing food, clean and safe places to walk and take in unique culture and meet nice people… but the news never goes outside of the few streets that have it the worst. Also if you go outside of LA and silicone valley people are chill and nice. Places like Indiana, Maryland, St. Louis, Jacksonville these places are way worse off … my theory is California is a political symbol of the left wing of neoliberal capitalism and it has gone against the old money on the east coast so it gets extra scrutiny. The Republican Party easily fixated on it as well so there is a lot of interest in painting it as failed political symbol, California is actually hyper capitalist wealthy enclave and the inequality comes from big business and old people blocking new housing
Well get used to it. They have been doing that to the rustbelt for decades. Once you get bad rep, it is hard to change the mindset. I personally love both states. Texas is better in somethings
I absolutely loved California when I visited there a couple of times. The Pacific Coast highway is just astonishing
I guess the bad rap couldn't be from the highest state taxes in the country. It could not be the democratic leaders you vote in that pass green energy regulations that prevent new housing from being built. It couldn't be the free healthcare you now provide to illegal l immigrants off the backs of taxpayers. I guess you don't drive thru the neighborhoods in Los Angeles too much to see tent cities throughout the city. Not visited the parks in San Diego being overrun with homeless people. I guess the policy of providing 600 month and a free phone to anyone who asks for welfare does not attract every bum in the country to come. Could not be any of that.
What I am saying is capitalism creates this eveywhere it succeeds… California is extremely capitalistic and overly successful its full of millionaires that buy all the real estate and drive the price up… the market has driven up costs and near the wealth there is very little land. I develop real estate here and I can tell you the cities and state want to build housing but they get sued constantly by the wealthy people here whenever anything is built near them. That makes the entire process super tedious and zoning is hard to change. It has almost nothing to do with environmental regulations or democrats. The environmental regulation is not even an issue like you guess or have been told by people who do not know what they are talking about. Additionally All the other states pay to send their homeless here. My friend from highschool was stabbed 47 times by a psychopath that was sent here on a free one way ticket by the Baltimore police department to get rid of him. Most of the state is very very nice and people who get used to it here do not want to leave. I am reminded every time I travel around that there are only a few pockets outside of California that I would consider moving to even though it was so challenging to improve my financial situation to afford it here. The taxes are not that bad either I often only pay a couple thousand in state taxes per year but I pay 20-30k in federal taxes. As well are property taxes are much lower than Texas look it up ;)… the issue here is the wealthy block housing and bid up prices in desirable areas because it’s so nice here… then the builders who build here have to afford to live here to so the cost to construct is primarily labor the materials is very little. Don’t believe all the bullshit you see on your biased news
So using your logic it is and will remain too expensive to live in California. According to you the zoning and wealthy people stop building. Even though they revoked the single family zoning law last year the land and materials are still too expensive to build. Median house in California is 930,000. Texas is 411,000. Yes the property taxes in Texas are higher but the house costs half what it does in California. 930 x 0.74 of assessed value is $6882 411 x1.7 of assessed value is $6980. So your tax liability in each state is the same but you can buy a house in Texas because it's 56 per cent cheaper than California.
Texas does not have any problem building new houses because there zoning is building friendly. You don't get hit with 13 percent state tax.in Texas California has lost population three years in a row and there is a reason for that.
Great video...you nailed it. I moved from Florida 8 years ago to Austin and I agree 100% with this video. In just the 8 years I have lived here, I can see the change in the city and it's not for the good. Cost of living, toll roads, housing, weather, culture...these are all going in the wrong direction. My fiance and I are moving up north next year. I have lived in the south my entire life and I'm over it. I want four seasons. The heat here this summer was brutal...like you can't do anything outdoors. We had 60+ days of 100+ F this summer (majority of which were back to back). Throw in the lack of a solid energy grid and water issues, we are done with it. Housing used to be ok 4-5 years ago but now houses that would have been in the mid-$400K's are now in the $600K-700K+ range. If you want to get around anywhere in a decent amount of time, prepare to use the toll roads. My office is about 20 miles away and it adds up to about $10 a day in just tolls to get there in 25 mins. If I didn't take the tolls, it would take closer to an hour during rush hour. If you want to travel outside of Austin, you'll still need to take toll roads if you want to make decent time and/or avoid the constant bottlenecks on the highways (I-35 is the worst). It's a shame because I can tell this was probably a cool town to live in 20+ years ago but it's growing so fast and the old culture is dying off. The schools in Austin ISD are garbage. Definitely move to the Leander ISD if you want your kids to have a decent school. Round Rock and Georgetown are also good ISDs.
The ICE and Snow is more Brutal..have fun
@@MrAeronca100 I'll take a couple of months of possible ice/snow for the rest of year with temperate weather for the other 8-9 months. It will be cold no doubt so not dismissing it.
@@marksaxon Winter starts around Halloween (Snow/ice and ends around Easter) Ex Wisconsin so I know...good luck buddy
@@MrAeronca100 yeah, you're right Ed. I was born in metro Detroit. First sixteen years there. Lived in Erie PA for a bit. Snowed a foot a day there, literally. Lived outside Chicago for ten years. The humidity from being close to lake Michigan was bone chilling in the winter time. Hard to get warm. No thanks. I hate the heat of Texas summers but the cold in the rest of the country is worse. Far worse. He'll learn. I've been in Texas on and off since 2012. Have family in Tucson Arizona. Winters are wonderful here. You have to look at it as winter is summer time in Austin and summer is winter time.
You're absolutely right the city was different (and better) 20+ years ago, in fact as a Texan it has gone from my favorite city in Texas to one I now actively avoid along with Houston. Dont get me wrong, it still has many of the things that made it awesome prior to about 15 years ago, it just seems forced these days..and the city has lost most of "small big town" charm it once had. There has always been money in Austin but in the past it peacefully coexisted with broke college students and starving musicians who somehow made enough money to live in the city. These days UT-Austin may as well be an ivy league school if parents have to help their kids with the cost of off campus housing. As for the musicians? I suppose they either have quite a commute to their 6th street gigs, or alternately live in one of the ever increasing homeless camps. Yes, tech companies moving into any area can be both a blessing and curse.
Now if we can get them to actually move out of Austin and out if Texas what a happy day that would be!
Except Texas property owners and landowning elite milking the Californians don't want that.
Your governor is actively recruiting California based companies to relocate to Texas, specifically Austin as a new tech hub. Expect housing prices to continue to increase, traffic to get worse and the social problems that come with wage disparity pushing those living on the edge to wind up pushing shopping carts and living in pop-up tent cities. Success has its price.
@@TSinRM As long as it’s all stuffed in Travis County that’s fine
They've got to ruin the place before they'll leave. Enjoy your STD!
@@anchorsaweigh9893A lot of those Californians hate driving. So you may be on to something good here....
6. Property Tax is high.
7. There is really no social safety net. No MediCal. A huge part percentage of the population has zero medical coverage, because many jobs simply don't offer it and no paid family/ maternity leave unless your job offers it and again most employers don't
8. Weed is still illegal in Texas
9. Minimum wage is still 7.25 per hour
10. Ice...freezing rain is common in winter in the DFW area and points north and west and icy roads cause things like school businesses government offices and overpasses to close.
11. Critters that will eat you...gators, big cats mosquitos , chiggers, ants and critters that will just bite like various venomous snakes, scorpions, coyotes etc.
Sounds a lot like California, you must not get out much into the rural areas of California.
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@@zombieapocalypse3837 there’s no comparison
@@zombieapocalypse3837 i live in Riverside county in a relatively rural area.
@@RainsWorldVegasSlots more of a contrast really. If you're ok with exploitive labor practices and humidity and bugs and lack of medical coverage and weed prohibition then yes Texas is for you.
I was in Austin about a month and I found a lot of rude people in Austin. I live in Vietnam where rudeness is very rare
I was born and raised in the san francisco bay area. Ive been in austin for 4 years. What i miss most is the lack of nature. There is like no natural open spaces like the bay area or california in general. People think of texas as this rustic outdoors adventureland. It couldnt be farther from the truth… I miss the open spaces that you escape to and walk/run/hike forever and reconnect with the trees and breath taking natural beauty…. I miss the ocean, beaches, etc. Overall, This area lacks natural beauty. Its boring in that respect. Its also way less cultural diverse and less food options.
The crime rate in south austin is getting worse everyday. I think the crime rated nearly doubled down there in the last year.
What i like about this area is that it is VERY calm and peaceful. It doesnt have that intensity and stress of the bay area. This helps balance out some of the things listed above.
The one thing you need to realize about the affordable housing is that the property tax is roughly 3+%. The house prices are rising fast and this 3% chunk is huge.
The heat is extreme from june-sept. Like high 90s with moderate humidity. You basically stay indoors from 10-6. Or stay in the shade.
If youre into fancy coffee, you’ll love austin. The other fun thing about austin is that you have the river flowing through downtown. There are three bridges that provide a cool layout for hanging out and walking/runing through the manmade city landscape. Lots of fit people can be seen in and around the downtown river trail.
You are correct if you stay in Austinfornia. Texas is full of opportunity you just have to put forth a little more effort to enjoy raw nature. It is not like Disney Land where you have guided tours in a motorized buggy while sipping you $20.00 coffee. You need to put forth a little effort like paddling a kayak down a quite river, or hike in the mountains of west Texas. You are just spoiled bratts talking trash about the state we love!
Barton Creek Greenbelt
Barton Springs
Bull Creek Greenbelt
Spicewood Park
Walnut Creek Greenbelt
Walnut Creek Hike and Bike
Town lake hike and bike
Krause Speings
Marble Galls
Inks Lake
Paleface
Hamilton Pool
City Park
360 Bridge Park
Wild Basin nature preserve
Enchanted Rock
San Marcos lakes
Enjoy!
Yah Pasadena!
Central Texas is ugly.
What i miss most is the lack of nature. There is like no natural open spaces like the bay area or california in general.
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You are correct. And here's the reason why. It goes back to the red/blue debate. California has tons of state parks and other PUBLIC places. Texas (outside Austin) is a vast public wasteland. It's all private property. And why? Because that's what republicans (red) wants. Red doesn't want public spaces. Texas has few state parks, zero bureau of land management areas, and just a few federal public lands (i.e. Big bend National Park). I live in west Texas; and I would love it if there were more natural areas like California has. But it's not going to happen so long as red runs the state.
Nailed it! I’m a full blooded Texan, and have lived all over Texas. In the last few years, property values have doubled, tripled. Just eight years ago, Texas used to be an affordable place to live in any town or city. Not anymore. Texans are trying to cash in on the non-natives. It’s absurd.
Traitors
Join the club. This has been happening in Cali for decades.
California's exit is driving up prices in Montana, Idaho, and Tennessee as well. Wherever they go they have made it unaffordable for most working folks.
Not to be heartless;But to those of us who are older,THIS is not OUR problem.Along with all the OTHER problems the internet introduced;the housing issue belongs to our younger generations!
@@whizbang7130 nevada, specifically las vegas also. And arizona.
I'm a NYer living in LA and I still love it here. Yes there are many problems, but for me the good still outweighs the bad by far. I tell people complaining about LA and CA in general, you don't have any idea what you're getting into when you move out of here because a lot of the rest of the country has things people have to put up with that just don't exist here (think politics, extreme weather; low wages; different intellectual interests, different attitudes about minority populations, mosquitos, biting flies, killer humidity, snow and ice storms); and you're giving up amenities here that don't necessarily exist elsewhere. I lived in Miami--loved it; wouldn't go back. I lived in Phoenix--liked it; wouldn't go back. I lived in Queens and Manhattan--loved it; wouldn't go back. Lots of people love Texas, and that's great. But know what you're getting into.
I am agree with you more than billion %!!! I am glad you love California. God bless!
We moved to the Bay Area from Kew Gardens, NY. I still miss NY a lot, but it would be difficult to move back again for various reasons.
I moved to Texas from Los Angeles 20 years ago. I love living in Fort Worth, but I definitely miss California. I would love to move back home, but it's too expensive.
Humidity is the word you are looking for
My regrets to move to Frisco, TX. 1) Weather 2) Foods 3) High Property Tax 4) Politics 5) Higher Racism 6) Road System 7) No Nature - SoCal has beautiful beaches, mountains and deserts. Yes, I MISS CALIFORNIA. Yes, I will go back.
Stay in Texas. You made your choice.
Same i hate it here tx is so fugly
No you can't come back.
Ironically, I have faced LESS racist in Austin. In CA ppl were describing others using derogatory phrasing. The crime was so bad I HAD to move for safety. TX seems to judge people by their productivity rather than their roots.
Move out of Dallas GMA.
There is plenty around you nature and all that. Hell your maybe 45 min from witchtall falls.
There's 5-6 forested parks and camps near you. Several lakes and cave formations.
Plenty of nature.
Leaving the area you'd have a bit of a drive but prop taxes would be lower.
Weather can't do much about but hey it's not fire.
They don't regret coming here as much as we regret them coming here
You preach it my friend!
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Stay there.
Best response.
Excellent- thank you great program- interesting re: Texas heat info interesting!!
I grew up in Texas and also lived in California for a long time. I left California this last time because of the taxes and the screwed up regulations and laws. I moved to Nevada. The biggest problem with people from California moving away because California is such a screwed up state is that they continue voting like Californians. Austin is probably one of the worst places to move to. Not only because of the prices but also because they have adopted California like policies.
I moved to Texas from Chicago. It's so frustrating to meet other transplants still voting dem/lib. I moved here for the hospitality, the freedoms, and to escape failed Democrat policies.
Democratic policies are nowhere near as failed as republican policies. Look at states like Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Kentucky. All conservative and red republican and all impoverished, underdeveloped, and undereducated. Look at Texas and it’s privately managed yet highly fragile electric grid. If any policies are failures, it is republican policies.
@@r.pres.4121 Unlike in CA where they beg you not to charge your car and where they buy power from neighboring states. Where you literally need to watch where you step in what used to be a beautiful city. Where you pay almost as much in taxes as you do for gas. Brandon screwed the country starting day one by shutting down the energy industry. Keep your f'ed up policies.
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@Matthew my heart breaks for you. Austin used to be such an awesome place to visit/live. The poor leadership of the city and the liberal agenda have turned it to 💩. I miss the old Austin. Was it perfect, no. But it was safer, cleaner and happier. I fight with my vote the best I can. But I agree, we need solidarity to stand up against failed dem policies they are sneaking into the texas system.
Great channel buddy. Good n accurate information about moving to Texas.
Much appreciated, William!
Excellent review! Thanks for your honesty! I would never move to Texas under any circumstances! California , overall, is the best place to live, period!
Excellent!!! Please stay there!
@@william-ajones3959 🤣🤣🤣
Please stay there
People moving to Austin need to do their research before getting here if they didn't then they shouldn't complain.
It's silly to say anywhere is the best place to live, period. Different people have different needs and wants. No place is the best for everyone. Maybe it is best for you (maybe not, how do you know, especially if you've not lived, traveled, researched anywhere else extensively?).
After living in Texas practically my whole life so far ( mostly Ft. Worth also Austin ) and someone that used to love summer ,this has gotten to be too much !! This past summer I thought many times of the year I lived in Laguna Beach or the several sailing vacations in San Francisco Bay where many times needed a heavy jacket in August ! Remember Mark Twain said , " The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco ! " My sites now would be set on California's central coast . Money is really the only issue. If I could step outside on a summer day and the high was 75°, my day wouldn't be affected wondering how people voted !?
People have said it a lot this year and I believe it, If you don't have a pool or own a boat ( expensive to run and maintain ) than you are a prisoner in your own house for several months . Everyone else copes by going to New Mexico or Colorado for a few weeks every summer .... But there is something about seeing and hearing that Pacific Ocean everyday . ⛵
Austin Texas used to be affordable ,but when the tech companies, and many California people moved there, that's when all the rents and properties became too expensive to afford,especially for native Texans, Texas is hot,and Austin is the worse place for allergies!!!!
The hot and allergies sounds like anywhere in the Central Valley, from Redding to Bakersfield. I live in the Central Valley of California.
In the northeast , and southeast the heat is worst than Texas. Lots of humid weather
No 1 reason Californians may not want to move to Austin is the high costs that all the Californians caused by moving here in mass. Thank y'all!!
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@Amanda Ross You may be wrong about that considering I live in a 1100 square foot house made in 1971 and the city says this starter house that should sell for 180,000 the city access it's value at 540,000
YEEEEEEEEHAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It's all relative. It's a drop in the bucket for most Californians, but will price out most native Texans. I have a feeling that there's going to be a mass exodus of Texans searching for the next cheapest state.
@@fvr12345 Austin was ranked #1 city to live in from 2017-2019. Since then it's dropped and today it's # 40. I'm sure being the 5th most expensive large U.S city for renters is one of the reasons...
@@fvr12345 TX became so in style that by now it is out of style! I like that Tulsa might be the next Austin. That would be ironic if we got a conservative celebrity in office in CA that would turn it red & TX would move here!
As a native Texan born and raised in Travis county !Left in 1987 moved to Florida moved back to Houston in 2005 because Austin was already overpriced.I love my home state but found Missouri more affordable plus my in laws are here . I find many folks from California moving here too .The Lone Star state will always be home but MY hometown I was raised in has changed and I’m not sure it’s for the better .Love your content and your channel
Love all the Austin images! I graduated in 2002 and last visited Austin in the mid-2000s. Already in the mid-90s people were complaining about all those "Damn Californians" who were "ruining" Austin. By now, I'm sure I wouldn't recognize my old home. But I still miss that place, something fierce!
Funny story: back in the 90s, Austinites complained about all the Californians coming to Austin, driving up the home prices, and causing traffic congestion. So what did they do? Move to Bastrop, Round Rock, Marble Falls, etc. - whereupon, the residents of those little towns started complaining about all the Austinites moving to town, driving up home prices, causing traffic congestion...
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Every where has its problems. No heaven on earth. My God is supplying all my needs.
Who wouldn’t want to live under the Texas taliban?
Number 5 is the selling point for me to come to Austin hahaha. Lived in LA 2011 - 2022 and loved it, so its awesome to hear that Austin is becoming very "Californian" while still giving opportunity for a new life experience. love how Austin has a huge wellness culture and with all the tech boom, its PERFECT. But still close enough to Dallas and Houston to do some weekend trips and indulge in that Texan culture. SO EXCITED FOR TEXAS! Great video thank you!
People who leave California who lived in large coastal municipalities to move to large Texas municipalities are simply exchanging one liberal/progressive/democrat area for another and all the associated problems/issues that plague California. So they are not really changing anything but geography. More people, more problems (and bigger problems). Paradise is only paradise if there are few people living there. The downside fewer amenities.
So Texas is paradise? Yeah, ok. The only thing that Texas has going for it is cheap homes.
As a 68 year old native Californian, I can tell you that every time I see that our pop. is approaching 40 million, I freak the f**k out. Which brings me to the main thing wrong with CA. That is, that there are just too damn many people here. 40 years of NIMBY and R1 zoning preventing affordable housing from being built and you get a flood of homeless with no where to go. My advise to people in other states...stay put, allow people to build affordable housing and don't let NIMBY attitudes ruin 'your' state.
Texas is over 30million wait until it hits that 40 million mark and the cities start getting strained with traffic rising crime you will start saying the same thing.😂
California being blamed for all downfalls in every city/ town is exhausting. Progress is what America's all about. People act like the only tech people came from California, there's plenty of tech savvy people here, which is why this is happening. The alarming part is lack of water and infrastructure to support this growth.
I live in San Antonio Texas and I am originally from California. I moved to Texas for many of the same reasons other people do. Lower cost of living, I stayed income tax, a lot politically conservative environment and my second amendment rights aren't being threatened here. Now I do make deliveries every week as part of my job to Austin. Austin is a beautiful city and does have a lot of interesting culture. But it is quickly becoming another Seattle or San Francisco. Many homeless, very liberal views and it's not cheap to live there. Sure there are a lot of high-tech jobs. But that only serves to drive with the prices of everything. With so many homeless on the street everywhere, it's like some place in California you've seen repeatedly.
Austin is not managed well and it's overwhelmed by growth now
Why Californians REGRET Moving to Austin Texas | 5 BIG Reasons? Reason#1 Facebook is moving its world headquarter to Austin, Texas. It is building its 66 floor office/condo/shopping tower all in one.
Enjoy 😁
Homeless & high cost of living weren't the reasons why Californians Left for Austin?
Californian reporting in. I moved to Austin in April 2021 and left when my lease expired in July 2022. Was offered renewal with a 25% rent increase. Even with my normal rent, Austin was 100% not worth it. The city is boring, the food is mediocre, and prices are not low except for gas. Totally overhyped. Living in Chicago now and it’s amazing here.
One less Californian to spoil this wonderful city xD
Only a Californian would say Texas food is crap 🖕🏼
Prepare for WINTER!I Hope you like the indoors!
Two brothers left California!
One moved to Texas and regrets it. The other moved to Utah and loves it. Cant step off the highway in Texas without trespassing, zero public land.
While Utah has millions of acres of public land to freely recreate on.
Love Southern Utah! No crime, good schools, awesome outdoors, great healthcare and 2 hours drive from Vegas.
@@savvyroca Wife&I LOVE St George,Moab,and all pts in between.
Utah is full
Tired of Cali folk invading states if you don’t like their policies don’t try to change red states to blue!!!!!!!!!
@@maryjogreen1706 I'm sorry,I guess I shouda said that I Love Utah:BUT,I'm not IN Love with Utah!!Definitely not enough to consider moving there,too expensive!Kinda desolate,boring'ish.But beautiful.
12:41 WTH, the founder of Dell is a Texan, born in Houston Texas. Dell has always been in Texas, AFAIK. Dell didn't move there.
Same for IBM, it's not a transplant. It's been there over 50 years.
I truly try to have an open mind about Californians moving in and do my darndest to give ‘em a chance, but doggone if some of em are trying hard to turn my beloved TX into Cali.
Embrace our culture. If you cannot, just stay where you’re from.
The hot weather is a real killer for me. I lived in Texas for one year and hated the weather to the point that when I drove out of Texas I vowed never to set foot in Texas again. Of course with climate change, where I grew up (Western Washington), is now to hot in the summer and even here on the coast of Maine we have about a month every summer that is too hot for human life (i.e., above 80F). Of course, here all I have to do to beat the heat is head out on my boat for a few days.
Governor Abbott is actively promoting businesses (tech and others) to relocate to Texas. So if you want a place to turn your anger into action - you need look no further than the Governor of your State.
Interesting very interesting and a valid point
I voted for Huffines
I remember Victor Davis Hansen talking on this, he basically said you know, it’s bad when people flee to either extreme temperatures with scorpions and snakes, or extreme cold with blizzards and snow from a mild climate like California. When you actually look into it, you see people are Truly fleeing to some of the most inhospitable climates just to get away from liberalism, which unfortunately many bring along with them. I’m kind of of the mentality if you voted for this, you should be forced to stick with it.
People vote with their feet and their wallets. Nobody wants anyone telling them where they can live or move to. Only a commie thinks that way. More freedom to choose where to go and live their life is the American way.
Is mostly not the libs that are moving out of CA to TX or FL.
We were thinking about moving to Texas during the Pandemic.
It seemed like a good idea with extremely low interest rates and affordable housing in the Lone Star state being eons lower than California.
But then good thing we watch the news bc it seems Texas attracts some of the worst extreme types of weather you can think of-----tornadoes, ice storms, floods, blazingly hot humid summers.
I am afraid of humidity and heat.
In California we have heat, but no humidity, so one of two ain't bad.
Also we noticed crime rates were on the rise in Texas as well.
Finally, we asked ourselves: "Why bother?"
We're also not in agreement with Gov. Abbott's policies and his undying support for Trump.
Right now, we're glad we stayed put.
CA has a lot of problems, but now we realize so does Texas.
Correct. Crime here in Austin is def on the rise. The 7/11 up the street from my apt got robbed at gun point a couple months ago, and you hear about people being shot all over North Austin. My rent has gone up over $500 the past two years so I am very much on the lookout for a new neighborhood
and insects, nobody has mentioned insects. And allergies too!
@@sylviacorwin9182 insects and allergies are a problem in CA, differs by climate.
Long hay fever season in CA. Some of the coastal areas are rife with molds, especially NorCal.
I'm allergic to grass, mold, dust mites, etc. Essentially, I'm a year round allergy sufferer, anywhere. I take my meds, I have a neti pot, I drink as much water as possible.
Insect issues vary, but bird killing sewer gas doesn't help. In the some areas they put out tabs in standing water. Some of the SoCal lake areas, the mosquitoes have been much worse this year. I'm not sure anyone is doing anything. Literally throwing out larva every morning, just giving the cats fresh water.
What is good about California, just the weather? Them get a tent and sleep outside, you are free to do so!!
Stay in Californis, we don't want you in Texas.
The brutally honest truth is Austin was cheaper, calmer more polite place BEFORE lots of people moving here and voting for the same crap that turned California blue, woke and more expensive. Hopefully some go back
I've been trying to relocate but im seeing videos saying don't move to California don't move to Florida and now don't move to Texas, next thing you know there will be a video that say don't even breathe.
Haha, I am sure those videos are already out there!
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I feel that what is happening in Austin is because of a lot of people from California moving into the area and bringing all of their "baggage" with them. You may not wish to talk about it but politics has a major component to it. When CA was more "balanced" politicly it was a great place to live but now not so much. People are being paid to be homeless here, they get money each month from the state as well as free smartphones. What really needs to happen is a major reset politicly and see that it the root cause. People that move and take their politics with them will kill the area just like it is here in CA. I understand and support the opinion of a vast majority of Texans. It is OK to have different opinions but to hate your neighbor just because they do not think like you think is horrible. I have always wanted to go to Austin just because of SXSW but I am not sure I will even do that now...
The globalists who are bringing in this great reset control grid hate Texas and the freedom it’s always stood for and have attacked the grid and it’s a target I agree with everything you said about the politics of it but now I see it as a very dangerous place to live
You should still go to visit, it's a cool city no matter where youre from originally. Having said that, dont expect San Francisco in the middle of Texas. I've lived both places (San Fran was admittedly only 6 months and Austin was nearly 20 years ago) and there are more differences than simularities, (not just the weather) but I also get why people make the comparison, but thats only compared to the other cities in Texas.
How rich is Gov New some? Where is all the money going for the state? I know Californians pay big tax dollars, depending on how much they make. Where is all that money actually going?
Most of the homelesses of CA come from all over the world...pls do not come to CA if you can't afford it
Just make sure you visit Austin in the Winter time!You WON'T like it in the summer!
Hi there, from Colorado. Great information in this video!! Thank you for sharing your prospective.
I am a-political too. I generally don't listen to the politics. And, I enjoy people....and wish we all got along better.
We have been looking into Mexico locations to begin wintering after I quit working in a few years. This led to that....and I shifted the look to southern AZ, Vegas, and SoCal. AZ and CA are places I have mostly only been exposed to since I began my current job 5 years ago. I really enjoy both places. Ultimately, we chose CA and will close on a condo in Palm Springs this week. I retired out of the Army. Having talked to a few friends since we went into contract in CA, there is a very defined boundary between my friends.....if they don't like CA, they think I am crazy to chose there. If they do, then it was a good move. Regardless...I really like that area, stay out of the politics, and don't get involved in stuff that divides people.
Enjoy Austin!! It is a fun city!! I have been there a few times for work. Those were fall trips and it was awesome. I went back on a personal trip in June. Many of the days were > 100 deg....and I really did not care for it. I tend to favor non humid places
Well what I say is if you want to move elsewhere from California is ok but just remember that it will be difficult to return to CA. But more folks are coming than leaving.
As of 7/6/2023, Not so much anymore, more are leaving than coming in (or coming back).
Wow wow wow!!! I love your comments! You are so right!
Texas has no income tax, but has very high property taxes to make up the difference. This can be a big bill in expensive Austin.
You’re 100%correct on all the points Austin is already over crowded and very expensive the natural beauty of Austin is better than the rest of Texas however the heat is everywhere in Texas also Austin is the San Francisco of Texas it’s the party city
the problems with Californians moving anywhere: they bring the California mindset and attitude with them.
I Moved from CA to Coleman Tx
In California I was borderline homeless
Now I feel rich. Best decision I ever made
Austin was poorly managed before the tech companies and others coming here. It’s doubled in population since like 1990 and yet they refuse to build any public transit, roads with more than 2-3 lanes and tons of tolls. Just all the suburban sorawl low density housing. Still love it though. I’m in Houston myself so I always love driving 360 and 2222 on the hills since it’s pancake flat here lol. And loveeee the less humidity compared to here. You step outside and you’re hit in the face with a wet blanket… that was just in the oven 😭😭
Since the early 90's Austin has always had heavy construction and homeless people. One thing about Austin is when it rains the water is very cold, another thing about Austin you can find a really good deal on used vehicles.
Property taxes in Texas are some of the highest in the country. The property taxes on a $480,000 home in Los Angeles will cost roughly the same as a $200,000 house in Austin.
You have made an amazing case FOR conservative politics. 👍
I have no clue why anyone would want to move to Texas or Florida
Thank you for the vid, Austin has good points like any other city, it all depends on what folks want to buy into. BORN and Grazed in California, Unfortunately every dog has their day and Texas will have it's. Ya'll think things stay the same, they don't; there's a season for every time. Enjoy the back and forth of Texas vs Cali it's all moot. Every nut and fruit cake will come to Austin and every other city in Texas hopefully you grow old before it happens and enjoy these good ole days while you have them. I lived in Houston for 5 years nice times. But Houston today is done! Pretend it's the same it's not. So goes the US, find your corner of the world and enjoy you life, no matter where that might take you, it's an adventure. Everyday above ground is a good day. Texas ❤ vs Cali Love. Good folks in both states of mind.
"Find your corner of this world and enjoy your life" 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾...
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Found mine here in California 😁
To those Texans worried about California transplants changing their state: don't worry. No Californian in his right mind would stay in Texas more than a few years. I was born, raised and spent most of my adult life in CA, and bought a house in San Antonio about ten years ago. The smartest thing I ever did was NOT sell my house in the San Francisco Bay Area. Every year, I find more reasons to prefer CA over TX. Texas' one big advantage--lower cost of living--is offset by the "you get what you pay for" syndrome. Having a "vacation house" in CA acts as a relief valve for me, otherwise Texas would drive me crazy. I wish there were more stories about the TURNOVER of transplants, i.e., Californians moving to Texas and then either moving back to CA, or on to other states like TN or Fl.
It has been said that if you are a bad person you are doomed to live in Texas during the summer for eternity
One big regret people from the west have moving out to Texas is the lack of outdoor freedom. The west coast has vast tracts of open forests and mountains that can be roamed year round, but the parks and open land to the citizens of Texas are tiny by comparison and it’s too hot anyways half the year. Don’t move to Texas if you like going into the outdoors.
I was born and raised in Southern California. My wife’s job brought us to Fort Worthless, TX. I came here kicking and screaming. California might be a mess politically but you can’t beat the weather, mountains/hills, the marine layer, flip flops and board shorts 365 days a year, superior drivers that don’t tailgate…as far as living in California all the good things far outweigh the bad.
Haha yeah Cali is wack buddy Lmao 🤣 go back why don’t ya haha
I live in Texas and it's my favorite state. It doesn't sound like your real issue is with Texas. It sounds like your issue is with your own wife. And hopefully, she doesn't read what you wrote about her contribution to your unhappiness here on the worldwide stage of the Internet.
Drag her butt back to California
I grew up in Houston and one summer we were at a Church Camp out near Junction. One of the questions that was asked everyone was to guess the temperature at noon. The highest guess was 89. Actually the temperature was 110, but at 20% humidity and most of us from SE Texas were used to square days - 95 degrees at 95% humidity.
Several decades ago I was sent back by my employer to go through a closing at our plant in Orange, Texas and over the July 4 weekend I took the opportunity to visit my parents in Houston. I thought it was fairly comfortable and was surprised that the actual temperature that day was 107 but the relative humidity was 17% (a very dry summer for that area).
As we used to say, it's not the heat that gets you, it's the humidity for the lower the humidity the cooler your skin will be.
I live close to Fort Worth but I took my Mom to look at houses in Orange,Texas a couple of years ago and I would live there if I ever sold my place here. Thought it was a pretty cool place!
@@carlinshowalter1806 I actually lived in Orange for a couple of years after my MBA when I worked for Owen's Illinois at the paper mill just north of town. (Now Inland Container). That was summer of 1976 the summer of 1978, the I was transferred to South Georgia. Followed by several more moves.
if people could put their politics aside and acknowledge one another's humanity, there wouldn't be much of a problem. i've never lived in california but i've lived in texas for the past 31 years. i haven't really had any problems with anyone other than those who are really adamant about their politics who i don't care much for whether blue or red. i don't vote so when i encounter people, i treat them the same way the treat me.
When they start letting people out of jail, taxes go up, gas goes up, food goes up, drugs users every and the homeless is out of control you will want to start voting!!
@@denisemunoz7954 at 51 i don't vote and don't vote. both parties have an agenda that doesn't sign with my own so spare me with that. gas prices have gone up and then they went down. people go to jail and are let out all the time. violence is the nature of humanity and America yet i still don't vote.
When you make your biggest decisions based on Joe Rogan…it’s just a show, people.
I’ve been in Dallas for ten years and I don’t think the heat is that bad. I also lived in Vegas for five years where everyone says yeah but it’s a dry heat, but I’ve found summer in Vegas to be much more exhausting than a Texas summer
I lived in Vegas for 8 years and we are considering Austin so this is such a helpful comment. Thank you!
It’s much dryer than Houston. Austin too. Please send help 😭 we’re dyin out here lol.
I worked for a large manufacturer in Los Angeles a few years back. I loved that job and the company. The weather was beautiful. Having said that i will take the heat over earth quake which happened often, fires which happened often and the occasional mudslides. If those weren’t so common place I might have moved there.
Austin has street poop, tent cities, cancel culture, crime, far left politics, weirdos everywhere, extremely high rent, and ridiculous home prices.
If you are trying to get away from these sort of things in California, Austin TX is not the place to relocate.
You are basically just moving to Texas's version of LA or SF....except it's hotter than hell, property taxes are outrageous, and there is no ocean
I left California and I’m as conservative as they come but this is a massive over exaggeration. I just got back from LA where I saw 20 homeless people on one block. I’m regularly downtown Austin, I don’t see 20 in total. Ever since they passed that proposition to stop camping in public they have moved them out of the city.
crime is definitely up in Austin, but it’s still like 5% of major of American cities.
High rent, agree. Home prices, agree. Cancel culture and far left? Don’t think so really. It’s a liberal city but I’ve ran into to a lot more conservatives, especially women surprisingly.
@@anthonyr587 guess where the homeless come from? I'll give you a clue, it is next to Louisiana. Yep they give them a 1 way ticket straight to California. You saw 20 homeless in 1 block? Well my friend you sound ignorant because you are making it sound like there are homeless all over the place, they have areas like skid row downtown which is about 2 blocks where that is possible, but let's stop pretending that California is a small place, you don't see homeless in most cities, you do see them in areas where they are more tourists just like in any other major city.
@@anthonyr587 I know it is a conservatives thing to hate on California, that's their only propaganda of turning California red, crackhead dream.
@@CanyonsCarver Wrong. I lived in DTLA up until a year and a half ago and regularly go back and have friends there. They are spread all over LA apart from the gated communities now. I'll educate you on the homeless there, not the other way around. I've seen the same homeless people for years down there, some were bussed out of other Cali cities and states, some weren't. But, if you don't want to encourage homelessness in your City then pass policies to prevent it. I also visited San Diego a few months ago where it is now RIFE there as well. And SF is exactly the same. Perhaps you need to leave your house and stop listening to the CNN version of events?
@@anthonyr587 I can guarantee you I know California more than you do, your misinformation is from Faux News you have nothing to offer since I have worked in shelters downtown for 25 years every major cities have homeless, that includes LA, SD and SF but it is not like you said, they are in a tiny part of those cities and mostly around the shelters.
Policies? Most of these people you see in the streets have mental health issues, they don't want to be in a shelter they are paranoid, afraid someone is going to kill them or poison their food, that's why you see them in the streets instead of the provided shelters.
You have no clue whatsoever, you are too busy playing politics hoping Californians are dumb enough to vote republican, nobody here wants to go backwards and be associated with toothless hillbillies.
very good! I visited for several weeks a few years ago: HEAT was intense. Even at pm I was sweating. Horrid traffic at times.
As for Californians, I have no problems with them and I welcome them to Texas. I’m not from Texas myself so we have things in common. One thing that I notice about a lot of them is that they are spoiled in terms of weather and scenary. There is no other place in the US that is similar to Cali. Not even Florida as it’s flat and just lack the vibe that you get out west. If Californians want to move away from their state, they have to be fine with things being different. In other states, we actually have weather lol!
Bro ....go Puerto Penasco ! Is on Pacific Ocean!everything is very ,very cheap and H.Q.You and your wife will pay no more then $16 a day (lunch and dinner ).Nice and Clean and no traffic!$200/mth for a studio .
Who says that? I keep hearing from people from Texas even here in Austin Californians are not welcome here
I live in Napa. I just cannot afford to purchase here. I am moving to Killeen. I have visited there several times and I think Ill do okay since im used to military towns. I appreciate the diversity from the military too. Austin has a lot of Californians moving there... My kid who lives in Houston said its the "New Hippie town" or "Silicon Valley" according to her and her friends. I love the weather. Killeen is less expensive to purchase and central to everything imo.
@@tonimoreland6870 don't move to killeen. It's a shit hole. In 2020 they had the highest homicide rate for the city. The only year that came close to that was back in 90s in the lubys massacre. Move to copperas cove where it's quiet and safer than killeen.
From a person that lives in SF I can definitely agree with you, I try to put myself in that same mindset that there’s probably going to be different weather that I’m not used to and probably not going to like, but it’s so hard for me because I’m so used to having “good weather” that when I don’t, I feel like there’s something wrong😅😅😅
If any of you Californications are not happy here in Texas, go on back to that out house basement (family friendly) that you came from and don't try to muck things up here.
You forgot the Property Taxes are 4 times higher than California, I had an Uncle build a home in El Paso to retire, and he wound up moving to South Dakota where there's lower taxes and no restriction easy living
What in earth is "restrictions on easy living"? I live in Texas just outside Houston on 100 acres that I only paid $400K for in 2013. My property is Ag Exempt because I let beekeepers keep bees on my property. I pay $800 a year in property taxes on 100 acres. Trying that in California. Let me see you buy 100 acres outside LA for $400K and only pay $800 in property taxes.
@@SOLDOZER I could buy 160,000 for half of what you paid in Kern County, its a mountain 👨🏻👍🏻⛰⛰🧗🏻
As a Texan, I am willing to greet anyone with a smile and a handshake and welcome them to what, I consider, is the best country 😉in the US. That being said, please don't move here and try to change it to the place y'all left.
I moved here from Chicago. I vote to avoid Democrat policies and governing. I pray all these people from Cali and New York wake up!!! Beto wants to implement a state income tax. 🤬
I see Texas going Blue come 2028 or sooner. Reason is because Texas has 5 growing cities, and those people will outnumber the rural count.
There's even right leaners in Oregon pissed at Portland, who seriously want Idaho to move their border more to encompass them.
@@lala4ever366 Texans will not vote for Beto and his stupid policies.
It's weird that in other states people don't use the word Ma'am.
@@candysmith8724 That abortion ban, his positions and lies on why the grid failed, letting anyone have assault rifles, and his border tricks are infinitely more stupid. Times are changing, and the numbers aren't lying. Texas will go Blue for the same reason that AZ went Blue. May not be in 2022, but definitely before the decade is over.
I went to Texas a lot in the 70s as my paternal grandfather retired to Corpus Christi. We even lived near Austin for 18 months in 1975/76 in what was then a rural area but is now solid suburbia. Even then when Texas was really Texas I didn't care for it but could see why so many others did. I was so happy to return the West where I've lived ever since. It is interesting to hear about how much Austin is changed. I won't be visiting TX anytime soon if ever and I wish the best of luck to those that would live there now.
Central Texas is ugly.
The heat there sounds like Japan in the summer. I would only know from visiting Austin several times for work in August and March.
Third generation native Texan and have never lived close to Austin. We call it the People’s Republic of Austin. There is a slogan-Keep Austin Weird. That’s definitely true. Don’t try to change Texas to your California anything.
I moved to Austin from California back in 1991 and I do not regret it.
I honestly liked the fact that Texas is somewhat in the middle politically. Both sides are too much in one ideology belief. The point of this country was for people to debate and find a compromise
6th generation Texan here um for the record this summer was mild actually the last 7 summers have been very mild for Austin, there have been many summers of 5 + months of 100+ heat lol but it's good for your soul some people pay crazy money for the sauna we just go outside...
90 degrees is a cool day in August.
Your channel is really useful! Keep up the good work.
I live in Texas and Austin is just like California
not it's not..... not by a long shot. Austin is a wanna be California . its really the other way around ...Austin is really a joke
I loved Austin having lived there during college however Austin today is not the town I remember and loved. Good job on the video!
Everywhere has this issue. Here in Connecticut the New York invasion was for years contained in Fairfield County. The rest of the state welcomed it as it bought a lot of wealth . From the 1970s on the New York invasion spread to the rest of the state. Changing the face of the state from bucolic New England towns , farms and woods to the now forever change to urban sprawl of high cost, 2nd homes, suburbia and Liberalism. The only answer is to live as far from any urban center you can possibly find in hopes it all doesn't catch up to you.
That's sad to hear, I'm stuck in CA now but my grandmother had a house in Marlborough for years, is the whole state ruined?
Absolutely right about the heat
#1 property tax. Buy a home and you tax is adjusted to the price you paid. So you get neighbor homeowners paying $1500/yr and new owners paying $6000/yr for basically the same house and services.
Phoenix doesn't adjust tax to new owner's price. So if the previous owner was paying $1500 then you will too no matter what price you pay. The county does adjust home values up and down but that happens to all homes regardless of being sold or not.
Basically Texas has an extra tax for people moving there and buying.
My friend from Austin got tired of the high Property taxes and moved to Arkansas. Why the high property taxes? No state income tax.
@@michaelellringer5600 Home owners are getting robbed in TX. My taxes were less in CA.
I think the high property taxes prevent investors from buying properties in mass and renting them out. If anything they should increase property taxes for 2nd and 3rd homes on up and scale it, but reduce taxes for their main residence.
Nope. Taxes are frozen I believe at age 65.
6:03 YAY! After seeing Iowa and NY where the cold air hits your face like a glacier I welcome the oven air. That said, you guys should really plant more trees
I wouldn’t necessarily blame Californians for the state of things in Austin. It’s about tech workers in general moving there. The techies destroyed SF and are a cancer anywhere they migrate…however if you’ve owned real estate for a long time, you’ll benefit.
Property taxes are very high in Texas and you don't see that money work.
I have traveled and lived in many many places and not just in the USA. I can honestly say that there is nowhere in the world that can really beat California. I have never found anywhere yet that is perfect but California is about as good as it gets.
Just stay out of the major cities.
You are right no place like California. Stay away from other cities.