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Complaints about the weather and then moving operations to Houston? I’ve lived in both cities and Houston is much worse for weather. I just looked at new home

Complaints about the weather and then moving operations to Houston? I’ve lived in both cities and Houston is much worse for weather. I just looked at new home price in Austin though and it’s $2m for 4k square foot house. That seems like a bad idea but there’s plenty of people out there willing to risk going underwater. Houston housing is still much cheaper.

burlesona 3y ago
I dunno. From Austin but also lived in Houston. The weather sucks in both places from May-October. But in the cool half of the year, Houston is much more consistent with mild and sunny weather, while Austin gets gray a lot and has more cold snaps. But most importantly, Houston doesn’t have cedar fever.
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- Pigalowda 3y ago
  Houston pollen is tremendously bad though as well. And the hurricanes deal a lot of flood damage to houses there every few years. I don’t like Austin weather but I could go running in the morning during the summer. In Houston in the morning when I would go running I would be literally soaked because of the humidity. After living in Dallas, Austin, and Houston I have to rank it just as I listed.
- gedy 3y ago
  Maybe it was bad timing, but Houston has felt like a hot swamp every time I've visited, like an energy sapping heaviness. Austin hasn't felt that way, although it certainly gets hot of course.
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danans 3y ago
> I just looked at new home price in Austin though and it’s $2m for 4k square foot house. That seems like a bad idea The old saying "don't buy the biggest house in the street" still rings true. Austin's median home size is 1800-2000 sqft. Unless you are looking to house a lot of people (i.e. a big extended family) a 4k sqft house is usually a bad idea from an investment perspective because, should you ever want to sell, the pool of potential buyers interested in a house that large is smaller. That's true whether in Austin or Houston.

burlesona 3y ago

I dunno. From Austin but also lived in Houston. The weather sucks in both places from May-October. But in the cool half of the year, Houston is much more consistent with mild and sunny weather, while Austin gets gray a lot and has more cold snaps. But most importantly, Houston doesn’t have cedar fever.

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Pigalowda 3y ago
Houston pollen is tremendously bad though as well. And the hurricanes deal a lot of flood damage to houses there every few years. I don’t like Austin weather but I could go running in the morning during the summer. In Houston in the morning when I would go running I would be literally soaked because of the humidity. After living in Dallas, Austin, and Houston I have to rank it just as I listed.
gedy 3y ago
Maybe it was bad timing, but Houston has felt like a hot swamp every time I've visited, like an energy sapping heaviness. Austin hasn't felt that way, although it certainly gets hot of course.
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danans 3y ago

> I just looked at new home price in Austin though and it’s $2m for 4k square foot house. That seems like a bad idea The old saying "don't buy the biggest house in the street" still rings true. Austin's median home size is 1800-2000 sqft. Unless you are looking to house a lot of people (i.e. a big extended family) a 4k sqft house is usually a bad idea from an investment perspective because, should you ever want to sell, the pool of potential buyers interested in a house that large is smaller. That's true whether in Austin or Houston.