Moving to Austin?

Travel Info
I have read all the questions around this place and liked all of them. Can you guys tell me anything more? BTW: I'll be moving there in May.

Travel Tips

I'm assuming that you've read quite a bit about Austin already so I'll try to give you a bit of flavor but since I don't know your age, marital status or financial condition, it will be pretty general. First, Austin is a great city - its got beautiful scenery, lakes, a river running through town, etc, etc. The people, even with the recent population boom, are, for the most part, very nice and very willing to lend a hand. Yes, there are a goodly number of idiots and wannabes but you can't escape those anywhere. It does trend toward the younger demo but they also have some of the coolest older "hippies" in the world. The University of Texas is the 600 pound gorilla and pretty amazing in its own right but if you happen to in the mood for some higher education on a much easier, intimate, congenial scale - try St. Edward's University on the south side of Austin. It has become a pretty expensive place to live so your financial situation has a lot to do with how much you might enjoy it. I would strongly urge you to live close to where you work as the city leaders kind of got blind-sided by the immense, rapid growth and the major pain in the butt is the traffic commute, it is bad, no denying that. Climate, in my opinion, is an A minus - a few months in the summer are real hot and a few months in the winter can be more ugly than nice (cool temps, gray, rainy) but compared to many places I've lived it is in the top ten percent. If you are single you won't lack for opportunities pretty much whatever your wants/desires are. At the end of the day, it must be pretty wonderful as very few want to leave once they are there for awhile. Hope this helped a little, I could write pro's and a few cons for many pages but this is a start. Good luck

Others
I live in Austin, It's a cool party town. But you will soon be driven crazy by the traffic
make sure you go to the hike & bike trails. they run from i35 to mopac allong the river (town lake). they are easy to get to & arent taxing if youre (like me) on the lazy side. mind the local ediquite & learn the spots off the trails. you can pop up on some really cool spots & eateries. get a month bus pass if you dont have a good car. theyre $10. groovy auto does good work & they are honest (they fix cars). rent can get expensive, ask the locals & cruise the backways. traffic is getting worse but i make better time going the surface/side streets, much more enjoyable. get the 'chronicle', itll tell you alot of the things goin on. go to the free concerts. talk to strangers, its that kinda town. you may find some freaks but most all are cool.