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I spent a few months in Austin for the first time this year. I hadn't expected much from it, but by the time I had left it had grown on me. I loved that it stil
by sudosteph 3y ago
I spent a few months in Austin for the first time this year. I hadn't expected much from it, but by the time I had left it had grown on me. I loved that it still had 24-hr coffee shops, I couldn't even find those in Seattle this summer. I also met a bunch of really kind, fun, and ambitious people in my age group (30s) through board groups, including other people interested in founding startups. Overall, it's definitely way more exciting than Raleigh, and the music scene was great too. I think it will continue to attract talent, especially from tech/startup-oriented southerners who may not feel culturally at home on the West Coast. The only other southern city I've organically ran into founders was Nashville, which is nice, but also quite expensive and doesn't have the history of tech investment that Austin does.
- yieldcrv 3y agoI don’t understand this tier 2 and tier 3 city tour everything you like is in the densely populated tier 1 cities fly over, it’s an objective crowded trade for a reason
- AlotOfReading 3y agoThis might sound crazy, but people also like houses they can afford. Good luck finding one within an hour's drive of NYC, LA, or Seattle if you don't have a spare million or so.
- yieldcrv 3y agosettling for less does sound crazy to me, but thanks for reminding me people do that and more should OP sounded like they were randomly choosing areas around the entire continent and just skipping the big timeless beacons of living, as if everyone else was missing something, while OP simply hadn’t considered trying their hand at those places either.
- sudosteph 3y agoYou're reading way too much into the cities I mentioned! I work remote and have been city-hopping to places where I have friends and family, and none of my friend group are in tier 1 cities. I would love to do a long stay in LA and NYC in the future, but they're excluded from the housing program I use to bounce around.
- yieldcrv 3y agoprops, hope you get to do that
- peanuty1 3y agoWhat are board groups? Like board games?
- CamperBob2 3y agoSame question. And why in the world was this person downvoted for asking? Austin may not have jumped the proverbial shark, but this place sure has. Very different audience than the people who were here just a few years ago.
- valianteffort 3y agoLots of jaded, unemployed SWE with free time here now
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- amadeuspagel 3y agoAs in any such case, whether a city or a forum, it's not different people, it's the same people getting older.
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- sudosteph 3y agoYep, I missed a word. Board game groups.
- drewcoo 3y ago> 24-hr coffee shops, I couldn't even find those in Seattle this summer In Seattle? If New York is the city that never sleeps, Seattle is the tiny city with a narcolepsy approaching that of the twin cities. With the exception of a few restaurants, only the bars are open late nights and they all close by 2 am.
- wenc 3y agoThere are a few coffee shops that open late (a Starbucks that opens 24h) but they're all on the east side (suburbs). I would have expected them be in the city, but I guess there's no late night coffee culture there -- it's bars or nothing. Just a little bit north in Vancouver BC, there are a ton of coffee places that open late.
- nus07 3y agoDurham is more exciting than Raleigh . That said I have found the Raleigh-Durham area a nice antidote to be in tech and not be in a hyper competitive, hustling , aggressive environment. There are a bunch of tech, pharma companies and universities which make the culture more research oriented and a little bit of what tier 1 tech cities were pre 2010. Personally I moved from the west coast after burning out and I have found the slower pace nicer but also enough tech opportunities to just continue as a programmer and not want to suddenly become a yogi or venture capitalist or reinvent myself as a farmer .
- red-iron-pine 3y agoi'm in Canada but from the US and if I had to move back the RDU would be on the short list.