Looking to move to Austin...

[Glockster69]

Don't move here.

"Yeah, I'm from California and I like guns! I'm pro gun!"

Said every Californian that voted for garbage horrible politicians ever.

He's made 2 posts and no indication of his politics. You're not creating a positive image of gun owners OR Texans.

 

[pharmaco]

He's made 2 posts and no indication of his politics. You're not creating a positive image of gun owners OR Texans.

Do I suddenly need the approval of whatever plebian committee you apparently head?

 

[Glockster69]

Do I suddenly need the approval of whatever plebian committee you apparently head?

You're the one that made the assumptions, certainly you can do better than attacking me.


If he's anything other than a liberal / anti-gun person, you owe him an apology.

 

[SC-Texas]

This is awesome.

 

[jrbfishn]

Think of the bats,,,,,,, those poor defenseless bats.

sent from an idgit coffeeholic

 

[35Remington]

Hi everyone

I've had a job offer in Austin, and was wondering if you could answer a few questions for my wife.

My wife is afraid of bats, and saw a bit on the net about the Congress Avenue Bridge Bats. Do you actually see the bats around Austin and Leander? Is it a regular thing to see them around, or just right when they fly out from the bridge at dusk?

How do the schools handle the heat? Is there a temperature where they keep the kids indoors and out of the heat?

Thanks!

I hear Florida is nice.

 

[AustinN4]

The bats are ALL infected with rabies, they fly all over the city all the time. I see them in my neighborhood as far North as Hutto every evening. They are a public nuisance and their lair is beneath the bridge. Tourists like to gum up the internet with "what nice bats" but they're a plague: 1,500,000 Mexican Freetail Bats does not equate to a pleasant experience for anyone. They WILL get stuck in your wife's hair.

The heat is horrendous. It's unrelenting. It flooded and the rivers swept most of the small towns away in May and now it's over 105 nearly every day. You walk in a constant pant, just like dog, but with sweat dripped from every orifice of your body. It's turned to steam inside of your pants by the friction of your own thighs, so you'll ALWAYS have swamp ass and gout. It just never quits. Yeah, sure we all have A/C in our cars, but by the time you get where you're going your A/C has just begun to cool you down and bring you back from the cusp of another heat stroke.

Speaking of heat strokes, no one knows how to drive. Austin has THE longest commute times of any city in America. Half is due to a failing infrastructure. The other half is due to immigrants from other states assuming there are plentiful jobs here and coming here and not understanding that A) Yes you can turn right on a red, B) A Texas Courtesy Pass is not a drunk driving tactic of driving on shoulders for fun, and C) Blinkers are not optional.

Your children WILL grow up outcasts, because locals will never accept the city for what it has become or what it's becoming. Austin was never meant to have a population of more than 400,000, yet today the metroplex is crammed full of over 2,000,000 people all lying to themselves that Austin is still just as cool as it was 10 years ago. It's not. It's horrible.

If the listeria from the local ice cream doesn't kill you, you still run the risk of catching rabies from the bats. Then when you think you've got it made and reach for a gun to kill that annoying Mockingbird on your window sill, an absolute hoard of willy-nilly democrats from Ohio and California will descend upon your domicile with the tact of a hand grenade, screaming that you're a gun-totting southern racists, even though you just moved here. You'll be in fear of your neighbors, local public policy, your daily commute, the huge hornets nest that was just built in your mailbox, the annoying bats in your palm tree, and your crazy-eyed right wing extremist neighbor who you'll swear is plotting your demise.

In the end, it's probably best if you just stay put.

Classic, and mostly true!

 

[zincwarrior]

Hi everyone

I've had a job offer in Austin, and was wondering if you could answer a few questions for my wife.

My wife is afraid of bats, and saw a bit on the net about the Congress Avenue Bridge Bats. Do you actually see the bats around Austin and Leander? Is it a regular thing to see them around, or just right when they fly out from the bridge at dusk?

How do the schools handle the heat? Is there a temperature where they keep the kids indoors and out of the heat?

Thanks!

There are never bats seen in Leander. They had a bat at a high school recently and sent out a text to everyone.
The Mexican bats coming out of Austin are never seen outside of their cool evening flight.
They have air conditioning. Are you from Texas? All schools have air conditioning.

 

[zincwarrior]

Moving from San Diego, CA.

EDIT: Don't listen to what I said. Only Australians can tolerate Texas, referrig to it as that safe little place.

You should stay there. Don't listen to us. The heat will melt your face. We have rattlers, brown recluses, chicken hawks, jackalopes and the occasional hippy spotting. Recently cobras have started springing up. There was a great white caught in Lake Travis last weekend-17 footer (small for us). Fortunately it was attacked by a herd of alligators who dragged it ashore and ate it in front of a bus of elementary school children.

All Texans are horse riding gun shooting maniacs. No one is worried about the schools because we don't actually go to school here. We just tell people to get them to come here to keep the population up. Else with all the gunfights on main street at noon our population would decline.

 

[zincwarrior]

The bats are ALL infected with rabies, they fly all over the city all the time. I see them in my neighborhood as far North as Hutto every evening. They are a public nuisance and their lair is beneath the bridge. Tourists like to gum up the internet with "what nice bats" but they're a plague: 1,500,000 Mexican Freetail Bats does not equate to a pleasant experience for anyone. They WILL get stuck in your wife's hair.

The heat is horrendous. It's unrelenting. It flooded and the rivers swept most of the small towns away in May and now it's over 105 nearly every day. You walk in a constant pant, just like dog, but with sweat dripped from every orifice of your body. It's turned to steam inside of your pants by the friction of your own thighs, so you'll ALWAYS have swamp ass and gout. It just never quits. Yeah, sure we all have A/C in our cars, but by the time you get where you're going your A/C has just begun to cool you down and bring you back from the cusp of another heat stroke.

Speaking of heat strokes, no one knows how to drive. Austin has THE longest commute times of any city in America. Half is due to a failing infrastructure. The other half is due to immigrants from other states assuming there are plentiful jobs here and coming here and not understanding that A) Yes you can turn right on a red, B) A Texas Courtesy Pass is not a drunk driving tactic of driving on shoulders for fun, and C) Blinkers are not optional.

Your children WILL grow up outcasts, because locals will never accept the city for what it has become or what it's becoming. Austin was never meant to have a population of more than 400,000, yet today the metroplex is crammed full of over 2,000,000 people all lying to themselves that Austin is still just as cool as it was 10 years ago. It's not. It's horrible.

If the listeria from the local ice cream doesn't kill you, you still run the risk of catching rabies from the bats. Then when you think you've got it made and reach for a gun to kill that annoying Mockingbird on your window sill, an absolute hoard of willy-nilly democrats from Ohio and California will descend upon your domicile with the tact of a hand grenade, screaming that you're a gun-totting southern racists, even though you just moved here. You'll be in fear of your neighbors, local public policy, your daily commute, the huge hornets nest that was just built in your mailbox, the annoying bats in your palm tree, and your crazy-eyed right wing extremist neighbor who you'll swear is plotting your demise.

In the end, it's probably best if you just stay put.

He's being polite to give you hope. Its way worse then that.
Go around Austin and you'll never see an old Austinite. You know why? We're all dead by 40.

 

[ShootTheBreeze]

Hi, if you seriously want to move to Austin you can check out another forum as well, not gun related, but has good info. It helped me a lot last year when my wife and I moved from California to Texas: http://www.city-data.com/forum/austin/

First I was a little afraid of my immigration test, but once they noticed I had a fable for guns and I am conservative I got a visa on probation (aka Texas Drivers license). Once you can punch 50 holes from the 3, 7 and15 yard line you get your permanent residency card; it's called CHL.

Oh, get used to the Texan humors and rants, it's all real :-)

STB

 

[zincwarrior]

Hi, if you seriously want to move to Austin you can check out another forum as well, not gun related, but has good info. It helped me a lot last year when my wife and I moved from California to Texas: http://www.city-data.com/forum/austin/

First I was a little afraid of my immigration test, but once they noticed I had a fable for guns and I am conservative I got a visa on probation (aka Texas Drivers license). Once you can punch 50 holes from the 3, 7 and15 yard line you get your permanent residency card; it's called CHL.

Oh, get used to the Texan humors and rants, it's all real :-)

STB

We're being polite. Don't mention the Mexican Bandits roaming the hills. It will scare him off. Just remember they don't need no steenking badges.

 

[Wiliamr]

Oh and the drugs here. Everyone is on drugs. The Austin police department arrests anyone with a camera, or runs them over with horses. It took me 2 hours to travel 15 miles Monday morning on 35 from Pflugerville to south of this hellhole. No one mentioned property taxes. A house that the tax people say is worth 400K is taxed at about 15 grand a year. This coming January, Open carry begins so we will have gunfights on the streets again. This morning, a rattlesnake bit my dog in the back yard. I need a drink, so I am off to the bar, lucky for me i have a half a bottle of tequila left to get me awake enough to fight traffic to get there.
The one thing we do not talk about here is the wildfires. While the press does not give any time to them like they do to California fires, we manage every year to burn out a town or at least one of the state parks (check out Bastrop fires from several years ago, or the fires around Austin subdivisions that burned down all the houses) with an occasional ranch burning off.

 

[Wiliamr]

Oh goodnes zincbandidt!!!... You didnt have to mention the Bandits! What about the gunfights with the biker gangs in Waco? The ongoing war between the motor cycle gang called the Banditos and the Mexican Banditos from the mountains that have moved north for the winter?

 

[SC-Texas]

Don't forget black widow spiders and skorpians

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[zincwarrior]

Don't forget black widow spiders and skorpians

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I forgot. Ever since the scorpions learned how to shoot Skorpions and took over the old Comancheria they've been quiet, perhaps too quiet.

Also Every once in a while herds of alligators swim north from Houston and eat a suburb. Typically this is in the spring. Occasionally they get caught up in the K5 tornadoes that come through from March to December. Remember, if you see a tornado, get under a bridge, so that the alligators don't land on you. They are really really crotchety for the first hour after they land. But if they land on your roof eventually they will calm down and climb down. Under no circumstances try to pull an alligator off the roof by yourself. Californians can't read 'em like we can, and you'll just get hurt.

Did anyone mention the javalina hawks to you?

 

[pharmaco]

You're the one that made the assumptions, certainly you can do better than attacking me.


If he's anything other than a liberal / anti-gun person, you owe him an apology.

LOL, I'll take advice from someone from your part of Louisiana when our bat overlords in central Texas tell me it's ok to do so.

ALSO, everyone is forgetting to tell OP about the worst part of it all:

There are people driving V12 4x4s everywhere!!!

Also, please see the attached picture from my car at 5am this morning

 

[kyletxria1911a1]

It's not the bats
It's the sweaty negros that are dangerous

 

[Vaquero]

2 or 3 days a week without a haboob make it pretty nice.

 

[Savage805]

No place to park. Not in Austin anyway.