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Originally Posted by chinchaaa
Better to plan early. Have you been here before? Those areas are very suburban/not exciting, yes, including the Domain. It's basically a mall with some offices. I would recommend coming and experiencing the real Austin for yourself. I think you'll find there's a reason most people our age and in our industry live close to downtown.
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No, but I've been planning to move to either Austin, San Diego or Portland for the longest time. Hell, even Sacramento since I'm in the Bay Area but I would prefer to go away from home for a bit. I've talked to some other coworkers who have lived or visited Austin and they all tell me it is a great area for me to move to. I was in Dallas last month for work and they even told me how Austin is a good spot for me too since I'm in the tech field, plus I love live music.
I check the Austin subreddit often, your threads here on skyscraperpage and watch some vloggers on YouTube who live in Austin and in The Domain and it all made me decide on picking this city over SD or Portland. COL, tech companies and the opportunity all help on my decision too.
I think I'll come during ACL time and go to the concert for a day and the rest of the days go around the city and explore.
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Originally Posted by zrx299
Those areas make more sense if you end up working in that area. But like others have said, you really need to get out and walk & experience an area to decide if its for you. At least for the Domain you can walk to get a beer and a burger. There's also the red line train that gets you downtown. A HUGE plus during SXSW time. It's cheap, a bit of a walk but totally do-able.
The big wildcard in your situation it seems, is office location, and how much of a priority commute time is for you.
The main reason I picked the Domain area is because I work in Tech Ridge and didn't want to waste time sitting in traffic every weekday. Some coworkers live downtown and end up wasting an extra 10 hours a week or more sitting on 35 for that privilege. I would much rather have a downtown office and live walking distance like I have in the past in other cities, but that unfortunately isn't an option for me here in Austin. A lot of the bigger companies in Austin are still in love with the 1980s-style suburban office park/campus ( )...
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Yeah, it all depends on where I work but also how affordable an apartment is and it's proximity with everything. Tech Ridge is pretty close to the Domain and I wouldn't mind just driving over to check out the spot every so often.
If I did somehow worked in downtown and lived in North Austin, I wouldn't mind walking around downtown everyday to kill time and for traffic to die down. I used to do that in San Francisco but I took the train back home (Less crowded in the train though)