[quote=AN][quote=flu]Austin and Dallas ain’t bad. But they ain’t exactly cheap living there now too. I kinda like it when I was there a few times. I dunno but I somehow always end up with a lot of friends from Texas, maybe being born and lived there had something to do with it. Hey, maybe that explains it. Maybe I really do have a cousin named Bubba with a missing front tooth. That would be awesome. Yeeehaw![/quote]
Austin is still hella cheap. https://www.tollbrothers.com/luxury-homes-for-sale/Texas/Belterra/Estate-Collection. 4200 sq-ft luxury house for $575k? That’s a lot cheaper than Fresno, much less San Diego.[/quote]

True, it’s more expensive than the rest of texas. But lots of high tech jobs and the employees aren’t really paying that much lower than here in sd. One of my last tenant that moved there before the QC layoffs happened a year or two ago( I forget when, short term memory with old age is failing lol) . He ended up doing pretty well because I think a company out their paid him San Diego embedded software engineer wages sponsored his green card and started the process right away, and last he sent to me was a pix of his beautiful gnormous house there that I think he paid $700k for, but it’s supposedly in the best area with the best school distric. His property taxes are much larger, but no state income tax I think.

I think he had an offer from Bay Area company too and had asked where he should go, and I mentioned Austin wasn’t bad if you can stand the heat and SF is overrated especially with a family,.and you won’t be able to buy a decent SFH for sometime unless you hit the stock/rsu bandwagon. And apparently once he moved there he felt pretty good about it since there are a lot of people exactly like him that did the same thing.Glad it worked out for him , his wife, and his newborn. He was tired of paying me rent for a 1/1 the past 4 years.