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Steelgrave

#15
May 27, 2015, 11:29:42 AM
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on May 27, 2015, 11:16:01 AM
Austin is pretty well serviced by its highway network as well.

Anytime you or Mirth use phrases like "pretty well serviced" I find myself looking for hidden meanings...... ::)

BanzaiCat

#16
May 27, 2015, 11:58:48 AM
I lived in San Antonio from about 1977 to 1992. Spent my 5th grade through college years there, so I have fond memories of it. It was a large-ish city then, but it's changed a lot. For example, when I started going to UTSA in the fall of 1987, Loop 1604 was called "the Death Loop" and was only one lane in each direction up on the north side, with no businesses or anything built up along it between Judson and UTSA. Now, it's thick with strip malls, restaurants, and other businesses, the entire length of it.

As Biggs said, it's very well laid out. If you drive downtown it's impossible to get lost and easy to find your way around. The people there are MUCH friendlier than the people in Houston, in general anyway. S.A. has a huge Hispanic culture there that I loved and missed. Most of my friends during that time were Hispanic and they all still live there.

The military aspect of the town was great, too. A lot of military folks there as there were (I think) five bases there at the time, though the Washington geniuses had closed a few down since I've lived there. Fort Sam is still a pretty great base, as is Randolph AFB. I spent a lot of time at both (I was a military dependent, though my stepdad passed when I was 13 I still had access to any base until I was 21).

I'm not sure Austin is all that great. If you love hippies, super-libs, shitloads of traffic, Hollywood elitists, and young/dumb college kids, you'll LOVE Austin. I'll add this...I'd live in Austin in a heartbeat if my only other choice was Houston. I actually had a shot at an instructional dev job there with the World of Tanks folks but my wife nixed it and wouldn't let me take it.

Centurion40

#17
May 27, 2015, 12:14:40 PM
Quote from: Steelgrave on May 27, 2015, 10:37:56 AM
Quote from: Centurion40 on May 27, 2015, 09:53:07 AM
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I like San Antonio and love Austin, but OKC is gonna be home.

I get Austin, but I know next to nothing about San Antonio.  I was just shocked to read the it is the 2nd largest city in Texas! What is so sweet about it?

Are you gonna have a tornado shelter in OKC?

Yes I am, and I'm working out a cost share with my sons to both do the same. As far as San Antonio, it has a great Hispanic culture with lots of wonderful restaurants, a vibrant Riverwalk, tons of things to see and do, and it's the gateway to what I consider the prettiest part of the state, the Texas Hill Country. It's an easy drive to Austin, New Braunsfels, Fredricksburg and lots of small towns with a lot of flavor and history. Heck, it's not even that far from the beaches of Corpus Christi.

Sounds idyllic.
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GDS_Starfury

#18
May 27, 2015, 12:23:01 PM
Quote from: Banzai_Cat on May 27, 2015, 11:58:48 AM
I'm not sure Austin is all that great. If you love hippies, super-libs, shitloads of traffic, Hollywood elitists, and young/dumb college kids, you'll LOVE Austin. I'll add this...I'd live in Austin in a heartbeat if my only other choice was Houston. I actually had a shot at an instructional dev job there with the World of Tanks folks but my wife nixed it and wouldn't let me take it.

thats the artsy crust of it but there is a lot more to the city then that.
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BanzaiCat

#19
May 27, 2015, 12:42:19 PM
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on May 27, 2015, 12:23:01 PM
Quote from: Banzai_Cat on May 27, 2015, 11:58:48 AM
I'm not sure Austin is all that great. If you love hippies, super-libs, shitloads of traffic, Hollywood elitists, and young/dumb college kids, you'll LOVE Austin. I'll add this...I'd live in Austin in a heartbeat if my only other choice was Houston. I actually had a shot at an instructional dev job there with the World of Tanks folks but my wife nixed it and wouldn't let me take it.

thats the artsy crust of it but there is a lot more to the city then that.

That's what you'll get if you only scratch the surface, yeah. We had friends that lived there for years so we are more familiar with it, though this was a long while ago. A friend of mine from high school lives in Round Rock but I've yet to visit them.

Like I said, I'd move there in a heartbeat if I could. Compared to this place, it would be wonderful, even with the crap I mentioned about Austin.

LongBlade

#20
May 27, 2015, 01:45:14 PM
Quote from: Centurion40 on May 27, 2015, 09:53:07 AM
Are you gonna have a tornado shelter in OKC?

Pretty much anywhere east of the Rockies, with the exception of the East Coast, needs a tornado shelter or at least a basement.
All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

BanzaiCat

#21
May 27, 2015, 03:24:59 PM
Basements don't exist here.

LongBlade

#22
May 27, 2015, 03:38:05 PM
Quote from: Banzai_Cat on May 27, 2015, 03:24:59 PM
Basements don't exist here.

Louisiana either. But the point is, if you could build them you would.
All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

BanzaiCat

#23
May 27, 2015, 03:43:02 PM
Oh my, yes, I would. I grew up in Northern Virginia. We had a split level with the bottom area feeling something like a basement (it was our den).

Mr. Bigglesworth

#24
May 27, 2015, 04:16:21 PM
I can build them, no problem.
"Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; "
- Shakespeare's Henry V, Act III, 1598

Centurion40

#25
May 28, 2015, 10:35:07 AM
Quote from: Banzai_Cat on May 27, 2015, 03:24:59 PM
Basements don't exist here.

Why?

Do you have excavators?  A house up here without a basement is rarely seen.
Any time is a good time for pie.

Barthheart

#26
May 28, 2015, 10:41:05 AM
Quote from: Centurion40 on May 28, 2015, 10:35:07 AM
Quote from: Banzai_Cat on May 27, 2015, 03:24:59 PM
Basements don't exist here.

Why?

Do you have excavators?  A house up here without a basement is rarely seen.

Can't dig a basement in a swamp is my guess....

BanzaiCat

#27
May 28, 2015, 10:43:07 AM
Because our water table. That's not to say there are no basements, so I should correct myself and say, they're very rare, because they would leak all the time. We have sub-ground structures, but they all require pumps. Downtown Houston has an underground area that has pumps; they learned that the hard way back in 2001 when Allison flooded much of Houston, and the downtown area had little in the way of that support structure. A woman drowned in an elevator in downtown Houston during that storm...what a lousy way to go. Drowning itself is bad enough, but in a parking garage? I can't imagine.

http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Woman-drowns-when-elevator-floods-in-basement-2020952.php

Basements do exist here and there, but they're expensive to put in, so the cookie-cutter home developers don't include them. The only way you'd get a basement in Houston is if you buy a pre-existing house that already has one, or if you're willing to pony up the cash to build a house from scratch.
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