So I'm 80% sure I'm moving..

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Originally Posted by blaise

Just out of curiosity, what is it you've heard about the East Coast that makes you think it's so bad? Just the regular rude people kind of stuff, or something else?

No. I used to want to move to NYC more than anywhere else. And really, really wanted to move to the East Coast. I was open to moving pretty much anywhere though. My girlfriend at the time didn't want to move there, and she only wanted to move to one of two places. Neither place bothered me at all so I just said okay. The plan was to move after grad school. Those plans changed like a week ago and now I'm moving somewhere with a friend of mine from college but when I brought up NYC to him he said it was way too expensive and that's fine with me so never talked about NYC again. I would much rather move somewhere else (that I'll like anyways) with a friend than move to NYC by myself.

This past week is the first time I've ever really looked up information on all these various parts of the country. I've looked at Portland, Seattle, SF, SD, Texas, and a couple east coast cities in Boston and DC. It was mainly the fact that when I looked up random lists of 'best cities to live in' the east coast ones didn't nearly as much as I thought they would. I literally probably looked at a hundred lists though, it wasn't like 4 or 5. The last 3 cities we were looking at were Austin, Portland and SD. I'm gonna look a little into Charleston, SC because a good friend of mine suggested it to me today but after talking to him I don't think it's going to beat out Austin.

So I guess I was just jumping to assumptions. If I talk to anyone who lives there I feel they'll be biased towards it, and it's not like I can go visit 10 different cities to check them out. I just saw all these other cities showing up towards the top of lists more often and figured that meant people enjoyed living there more. I'm sure if I did move to NYC, Boston or DC I'd have a blast and love it and same goes for anywhere else I've mentioned. I just want to be back to a big city.

I have visited Boston NYC and DC all before, and have been to all of them in the past 6 months actually. I didn't have a bad time at all, and I love NYC. I just thing after I looked at everything I did Austin seemed like the best choice for me personally, and it wasn't too hard to see it.