We all know people are moving to the Austin area every day. I met 8 groups in the last 3 days that have been here from two weeks to "just got here" two days ago. Three families from CA., one family from MN., a couple from Chicago, a couple from VA., and last night, a young lady from Boise, and a couple from Denver. Since I see many people a day at my job in retail, I'm getting an idea where most of the people I meet are coming from...California. I meet a lot of people from NY, but the majority of them escaped NY at least a few years ago, like me. The ones from CA tell me their decision was mostly due to the lower cost of living here, the other reasons from this group, 3 getting away from the cold, VA couple came for work, Boise girl came to get away from her boyfriend. The couple from Denver thought it was funny how everyone here was "suffering" from the cold...they said it was zero degrees back in Denver. The majority of the CA'ers say they miss CA, but couldn't pass up our more for less real estate and cost of living. A recent CA transplant told me their cost for natural gas was higher than electric. He was from around Oakland. The girl from Boise told me, without me asking, that ducks do land on the blue football playing field...smurf turf...of the Boise St. Broncos, they think its a lake....I guess the ducks aren't too smart up in Idaho.
Last edited by the Genral; Nov 14, 2014 at 5:40 PM.
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