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METRO Red Line from Midtown to TMC is 12 minutes. I sold my second car and take the train every day. Best decision I've made.

My family has been in Austin since the 1970s. The city I grew up in doesn't exist anymore. That's not California's fault but it's hard not to feel some kind of way about it.

Magnolia Cafe "Sorry, we're open" is the most Austin sentence ever. That place has seen things.

The commute from Clear Lake to downtown Houston is rough. I-45 South in the morning is 60+ minutes. If your job isn't near JSC, don't live here.

terrell hills is the sleeper adjacent neighborhood. same vibes, slightly less

Clear Lake is the most wholesome part of Houston. Your neighbor is literally a rocket scientist and their kid is on the same soccer team as yours.

Every generation of Austinites thinks they're the "real" ones and the people who came after ruined it. UT students in the 90s said the same thing about the people moving in then.

Biking downtown from Zilker takes 15 minutes on the Barton Creek trail. Sold my car 2 years ago. Best decision of my life.

Furniture flipping. Grab free stuff off Facebook Marketplace, clean it up or do minor repairs, resell. A truck is your biggest advantage. I clear $500-800/month doing this on weekends.

Pressure washing. You can get a decent setup for $400. Driveways, fences, patios. Post on Nextdoor and you'll be booked within a week. $100-200 per driveway.

Moved from LA in 2021 for a Tesla gig. I get the frustration from locals but I didn't come here to change Austin. I came because I like it the way it is. Or was.

Parking at TMC is its own full-time job. I get to the garage at 6:15 AM and it's already half full. If you start after 7:30, you're parking in the shuttle lot.

Airline Dr. taco truck row is the best food street in Houston that no guidebook mentions. Drive it on a Friday night.

Document every maintenance request in writing (email, not just the portal). If they haven't fixed stuff you reported, that's leverage for negotiation or for your city's tenant complaint process.

Chicken on a stick on Dirty 6th at 2 AM is the great equalizer. Lawyers, college students, tourists, all standing in the same line for the same mystery chicken. Beautiful.

The kolache vs klobasnek debate is the most Texas food argument that exists. I call everything a kolache and I'm not changing.

The tram tour at Space Center Houston is criminally underrated. You stand in the ACTUAL Mission Control room where they landed Apollo 11. That's a life experience.

Truck Yard on Washington is fun but the real food truck culture in Houston is the random truck parked at a gas station at 11 PM. That's where the best food is.

"Save during the boom" is the advice everyone ignores. You see your colleagues buying boats and trucks at $80 oil. Then at $40 oil those boats are for sale on Facebook Marketplace.

The restaurants on the East Side are incredible. Suerte, Nixta, Launderette, Kemuri Tatsu-ya. But every time I eat at one I think about what used to be in that building.

Left my hybrid job for a fully remote one. Took a small pay cut but the savings on gas, parking, lunch, and wardrobe made it net positive. Zero regrets.

The Waffle Bus chicken and waffle sandwich made me rethink my entire approach to food. Sweet, savory, spicy, crunchy all in one bite.

The companies forcing return-to-office are just trying to justify their lease costs. It's not about productivity and everyone knows it.

Shipley's kolaches at 6 AM before work is a Houston ritual. The dough is freshest right when they open.

Gordon Ryan passing instructional is the correct answer for best single purchase. my passing game went from "hope and pray" to actually having a system within 2 months of drilling that content