Moving BACK From California To Austin Texas [I Couldn’t Take It]

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Moving BACK From California To Austin Texas [I Couldn’t Take It]
To our subscribers (and new viewers),
Ever wondered how or why I got into real estate, and now help people relocate?
In THIS video... I decided to go in a different direction.
I figured I would take a break from the things we usually address such as neighborhoods, vlogs, pros and cons, top 10s, etc. And instead, give you guys something more raw and vulnerable for once.
In this video I talk about moving from California BACK to Austin Texas. Why I moved to California from Texas in the first place, what it was like, how the two places contrasted, the highs & lows, and so much more that would eventually lead me back HERE.
Full-circle - now helping people do what I did, and finding happiness as I did.
I've made this video in hopes that someone, even if it's just one out of many, will take something from it, and possibly relate. Moving back to Texas from California was the conclusion of a wild, and painful ride. Some of you might be in a similar boat. But it helped me realize this was what I'm meant to do. Maybe it'll be home for you too, come 2022 or whenever you see this.
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"Austin is the capital city of the U.S. state of Texas, as well as the seat and largest city of Travis County, with portions extending into Hays and Williamson counties. Incorporated on December 27, 1839, it is the 11th-most populous city in the United States, the fourth-most-populous city in Texas, and the second-most-populous state capital city (after Phoenix, Arizona). It has been one of the fastest growing large cities in the United States since 2010. Austin is the southernmost state capital in the contiguous United States and is considered a "Beta −" global city as categorized by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network."
"As of the U.S. Census Bureau's July 1, 2019 estimate, Austin had a population of 978,908, up from 790,491 at the 2010 census. The city is the cultural and economic center of the Austin-Round Rock metropolitan statistical area, which had an estimated population of 2,295,303 as of July 1, 2020, roughly 84% increase from the year 2000. Located in Central Texas within the greater Texas Hill Country, it is home to numerous lakes, rivers, and waterways, including Lady Bird Lake and Lake Travis on the Colorado River, Barton Springs, McKinney Falls, and Lake Walter E. Long."
"Residents of Austin are known as Austinites. They include a diverse mix of government employees, college students, musicians, high-tech workers, digital marketers, and blue-collar workers. The city's official slogan promotes Austin as "The Live Music Capital of the World", a reference to the city's many musicians and live music venues, as well as the long-running PBS TV concert series Austin City Limits. The city also adopted "Silicon Hills" as a nickname in the 1990s due to a rapid influx of technology and development companies. In recent years, some Austinites have adopted the unofficial slogan "Keep Austin Weird", which refers to the desire to protect small, unique, and local businesses from being overrun by large corporations. Since the late 19th century, Austin has also been known as the "City of the Violet Crown", because of the colorful glow of light across the hills just after sunset."
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@LivingInAustinGroup 2 года назад

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@BEACHDUDE71 Год назад

More people should move to Texas from California

@RR-wd9wf 8 месяцев назад

Thank you for allowing yourself to be vulnerable in sharing your personal story. Really appreciate and value your honest approach with the content your providing. 😊

@igornovik3468 2 года назад

For me at the moment, the only benefit of California now is Ocean and Nature. Nothing else. For me all this diversity and other stuff is nonsense in LA. I literally hate it. People hate each other. Moving to Dallas in December. Made a decision after 3 days in TX :)

@LivingInAustinGroup 2 года назад

Congrats!!

@Myke_thehuman 2 года назад

You hate diversity…wow. At least you’re very mask off about it.

@howellwong11 2 года назад

Yep, the weather is nicer out there. I lived in both states, but left California Orange County in the early Seventies.

@nygeriunprence 2 года назад

@@Myke_thehuman I think he’s saying it’s bullshit as in the diversity is fake. People in LA are kinda segregated so I think he meant that.

@howellwong11 2 года назад

@Big Dick Black Are you talking about LA in the Fifties?

@chasing_dragons 2 года назад

Thank you so much for this video. I was born and have lived in Los Angeles all 48 years of my life. Still here. Everything you described is at minimum 100% correct. There are many things that people are not allowed 🚫 to say about the who, what, where, and why California is the way it is and people can blast me all they want. The truth is Los Angeles and the VAST MAJORITY of California is a perfect hell storm of political, social, economic, educational, crime, racial, ethnic, gender, transportation, and various other quality of life issues that creates what is referred to as "Angry Rat Syndrome." I have worked in many different industries including entertainment. Anyone try non-union background work? Pure misery. I will make a public admission with God as my witness that MOST of California and especially Los Angeles and surrounding areas is NOT a happy place to live. It would take days to explain and even after that, there will always be some smart mouth who will argue "Yah but every city has its problems and the weather is just so great here so what do you expect?"

@LivingInAustinGroup 2 года назад

Well said!

@kmadon6828 2 года назад

Nah. I live about an hour outside of LA. My neighbors are awesome, the community is diverse but extremely welcoming, everyone helps each other out and it's laid back here. I've travelled to every other continental state, and Californians have a reputation for being outgoing & friendly for a reason. It's also very, very safe here. Your personal experience tells me more about you than anything else.

@adamc.7795 Год назад

@@kmadon6828 Are you in OC or Santa Barbara areas? I'm trying to figure out moving to OC or San Diego, can't stand LA county (all of it).

@kmadon6828 Год назад

@Adam C. I technically still live in LA county, but in the mountains. I love it up here. Quiet, beautiful, with all the benefits of California living and none of the downsides. LA county is enourmous- there is a LOT of variety in communities. Also, what I find to be wonderful might not please you- I love the countryside. I have a herd of goats and a bunch of chickens. Maybe you'd think that's dirty and loud. Orange county in my opinion is insufferable. I dislike the people and dislike the noise and pollution. Maybe there are pockets of goodness, but on the whole I dislike it. The horse people there are NUTS which may have shaded my opinion on OC's rural areas. The coast is too cold and murky for me lol. I like living inland. Do what feels right for you! Some people love the mood and atmosphere of coastal living. Some people really like Orange County. Just not me lol

@adamc.7795 Год назад

@@kmadon6828 Hahah, I laughed out loud when you mentioned 'horse people'. I understand why you like more open space, I grew up in Upstate NY where it was mainly corn and cows and smaller cities with not much to do. Irvine I noticed had like zero human activity when I was there on a Friday night. I thought wow, not for me. Yet those other areas like Aliso Viejo or something seem OK, more trees and parks and hills, plus the ocean is close. I don't bother driving anywhere near Santa Monica or any beaches of LA anymore, they are shit. OC much better. It would be sad to move from LA in search of more community or nicer areas and then land in OC or even San Diego and find it's the same types of people in LA, only more laid back and slightly different scenery.

@andremartinez6449 2 года назад

Great story. I’ve been through a similar thing when I moved to Alabama. No amount of money is ever worth your health and happiness. I left after 11 months never to return 😃

@gumamell Год назад

It's who you are?. It's your personality and perspective in General. Wherever you go your personality goes to.

@gomi 2 года назад

Perhaps check out the rest of California

@Kirstenmaryott1 2 года назад

Hi I’m living in Austin from Los Angeles ✌🏻❤️

@Megantuano 2 года назад

Enjoyed your story

@aresleve619 2 года назад

I'm from San Diego, Ca and moved to Los Angeles, Can last year. Everything you've stated about California is true unfortunately. People are not friendly, and for a while, I hate to admit I thought I was experiencing racism, but after watching more videos about the state I grew up in, I see it's not race, it's simply people being unfriendly.

@bioboost12 2 года назад

@Big Dick Black Much more unfriendly? I doubt that

@jglee6721 2 года назад

@Big Dick Black Yes, they had to fight the Comanche and the Mexicans.

@BEACHDUDE71 Год назад

More people should move to Texas from California

@richardwilson2827 Год назад

ok you have to take it as a grain of salt because if your black there is places in the south you cant go period you dont stop there you make sure you have gas and you pray your tires dont go flat and im not making this up!!!! and your people will tell about this or warn you before you come. im in stockton cali now but i was born in texas

@jeffgates7645 2 года назад

I have seen a lot of beggars and homeless camps in Austin.

@chop3625 Год назад

Just the beginning, mild weather draws em in.

@lenaheart8103 2 года назад

Moved from San Diego to Austin, TX… we miss family, but happy here. Slower pace here, more time for family & friends, lots of friendly Ppl here from diff parts of the world.

@LivingInAustinGroup 2 года назад

Well said!

@HopeBromley 2 года назад

Lived in Escondido Lena. I know about SD lol. But I’m from Texas but was ready to come home after 14 years gone due to the navy.

@lenaheart8103 2 года назад

@@HopeBromley Welcome Home 🍾 🎊. I was born in Houston, but grew up in LA. We are grateful and feeling blessed to be in TX ❤️.

@HopeBromley 2 года назад

@@lenaheart8103 I was born and raised in Orange, TX (east of Houston 😂 right on the TX/LA border). Grew up there till I was 18 and then went into the military. Was stationed in Jacksonville, Florida 8 years and then lived in San Diego for 6 (ex husband Navy out there). I only miss the 70 degree weather and being about 1hr from Disneyland 😆. I was glad to come home though. Nothing like home in Texas.

@michaelsix9684 2 года назад

@@HopeBromley wow, I lived in Orange, tX 1956-66, dad was sent to open chemical plant, we had to return to Ohio in 66, I was in Akron -Columbus, never adjusted to snow and cold, and people were awful -returned to tX in 81, lived in Galveston, Austin, settled in Houston, fin. career here and will leave asap, now tX is getting crowded and expensive, yikes!

@BEACHDUDE71 Год назад

More people should move to Texas from California

@adamc.7795 Год назад

Pasadena, miss how it was before 2020. So many places closed and turned over, doesn't seem to be as vibrant as it once was. It is a nice area though compared to a vast majority of LA county. I'm ready to leave LA county, all I do is stay in my bubble due to traffic it's pretty sad. The only beaches I like are OC ones, so drive down there early Sat mornings. Just total lack of decent open space in LA too. I know mountains but, the air sure is cleaner by that ocean.

@Donkeyearsa Год назад

I came from San Diego and moved to the greater DFW area. Texas views suck as its basicly flat and boring. Where California has lots of variety of beautiful views all over the state. As for cost of living California just out right sucks there is no other way to say it. Where Texas is relatively inexpensive. As for jobs there are many jobs in both states. As for politics as far as I am concerned as a libertarian they both really suck, but in different ways. California is just out right full of wackos where in texas corruption is ramped with the good old boy system of the rich. As for crime, personally Texas has been far worse than California. In the 40 years I lived in California I have been robbed 3 times. As for Texas I have lost count how many tines I have had been robbed. An example, I was working on my bobbed wire fence and needed a tool. I walked to my house to get the tool and when I got back where I was working on the fence all the tools that I was using on the fence where all stolen. The biggest crime I had, i had a building delivered and before I could have it erected it was stolen in the middle of the night and the cops could not give a crap. They could not even put in the effort to try to pretend to actually do anything.

@TomGarcia-g8w Год назад

Caifornia is the best if you have s medical need. They help you so you also need to consider health care available. The cost of living is cheaper in these states because they dont provide adequate health care for older people...

@beddythecorgi4269 2 года назад

The only question to ask to know if it was a mistake - can you have your corgi? If the answer is no, don't go to that horrible corgiless place. As someone who had to leave texas for work you will not find better people than those you meet in texas.

@gregorriusadolphus2729 2 года назад

Thanks for sharing; I left Austin in 2016 and moved to Denver for a job and had a very similar experience. I got a job there that I couldn't refuse, and was excited about the no humidity, mountains, and a change of scenery. The honeymoon phase lasted 6 months. Sometimes the air is so dirty you can't see the mountains from the city; the traffic to get into the mountains is horrific on the weekends. It's expensive although I had a good tech job so I was lucky to afford it. They have a similarly bad homeless problem; super aggressive and were all over (I lived close to downtown). The food was bland. And the worst thing was the people....cold and unfriendly and flakey. I moved to Austin from Dallas in 2007 and couldn't believe how nice the local, original Austinites were. I moved there knowing no one and within two years had a large friend group/connections. You can go to bar solo and come out with two new hangout friends Such a great energy there. I tried to make it last in Denver but decided to move back to Texas about 6 months ago since I became a remote worker-I looked at coming back to Austin but the prices were rising too fast on homes, so I moved just outside of San Antonio where I build a new house for half of what it costs in Austin. But there is still the same energy as Austin as far as people who were raised in central Texas-I don't think you will find more genuine, cool people anywhere, and I've been on six continents. You truly don't know what you have until you leave it!

@michaelsix9684 2 года назад

lovely story and thanks for sharing, Austin is overrun now, and SA is the next boomtown here, Austin has lost so much of what it was, it's really sad

@AndreKulchyk 2 года назад

Thank you so much for sharing! Interesting to hear your story and experience!

@davejarvis7522 Год назад

I'm from Denver, very true it isn't the place I grew up in the 60s. Denver use to be the best city in US when I was a kid but ,not now

@AndrewB290 Год назад

The central part of Texas is the most friendly, however that's pretty tricky because a lot of people in Central Texas aren't from Texas, same with outer DFW area. The friendliness is pretty hit-or-miss in the rest of the state, to get a general idea of how Texans really are, step East of Interstate 35, that's where more born and raised Texans are.

@adamc.7795 Год назад

I've read about the same cold and distant type of people in Denver also, although have only been to the airport haha! I don't get why Denver could seem like that, it seems like a happier more affordable place than LA is that's for sure. Plus Denver is made up of people from all over CA, NY, anywhere else. I want to find a study about which cities are becoming like this, is it most major cities globally? Or is it an American problem having that lack of friendliness, etc. Then I hear of people who left LA, SF to move to Denver and they said it's much better in Denver. Just so many dynamics to account for.

@h.al.8801 Год назад

I left California in 1998. Results: Early Retirement, bought a house with cash, money in the bank, no crime!

@BEACHDUDE71 Год назад

More people should move to Texas from California

@chriscancolor 2 года назад

Thank you for this! I’m looking forward to leaving California because I do feel like It’s taking my soul.

@BEACHDUDE71 Год назад

More people should move to Texas from California

@erich84502b 2 года назад

When you enter California there is a sign on the interstate that says; "welcome to California " that's all you need to know. Sign speaks for itself

@AndreKulchyk 2 года назад

What do you mean?

@erich84502b 2 года назад

@@AndreKulchyk your Entering California so that your expectations. People have expectations when they enter a Republican state. When they move in they expect it to be same as the Democrats state they left.

@beddythecorgi4269 2 года назад

Huh? Every state has a sign that says "welcome to x". Good states like Tennessee go out of thier way to have visitor centers that put the state you just entered from to shame. Your statement is what is wrong w current ca. It used to be a balanced state that lead the way leaning left. Now it's led by elite out of touch wokeness and no one wants to return to center and be normal.

@karimski84 2 года назад

We Moved to San Diego in 95, we only lived there for 5 years. We did not know any of our neighbors, until the real estate sign went up in front of our home, only THEN did I meet a majority of my neighbors. They only wanted to know what We listed our home for 😑 ( to witch I told them 300k less than the current values at the time ) the looks on their faces 😂😂😂 solidified one of our many reasons we left CA. Great video by the way, thank you for sharing.

@michaelsix9684 2 года назад

Houston is lot like san diego, so hard to make friends here, wiil be moving to GA soon

@adamc.7795 Год назад

Not knowing your neighbors seems to have become one of our great American values hasn't it? It can be the same crap back in the small town/city I am from.

@swedeinla 2 года назад

i live in Koreatown, between Hollywood and downtown LA, and work at Paramount Studios and moving to Austin in a few months.....Not a lot of soul in LA indeed.

@LivingInAustinGroup 2 года назад

And not everyone minds that! But I certainly did. I think you’ll be happy here in Austin!

@igornovik3468 2 года назад

Omg, Koreatown is so bad. Absolutely hate this part of the city. Also moving to Dallas soon.

@michaelsix9684 2 года назад

bring money, Austin is tight for rents and housing now, do your research before you come

@ellenrose2041 2 года назад

I have been a California girl most of my life. I grew up in NorCal, lived in Hawaii for a few years and then moved to SoCal. Honestly, everything you have said about SoCal is so true. We are moving to Austin, TX in July/August and looking forward to the change!

@AndreKulchyk 2 года назад

Thank you for sharing your experience and story! For me, someone who lives in LA and planning move to Austin, this was very interesting insight!

@LivingInAustinGroup 2 года назад

Happy to be of help, Andre!

@SAG2023SAG 2 года назад

Sounds like you were hopping California would solve your problems or live the California dream etc...and since you did not cut it, you felt homesick and decided to go home. My parents (and their kids) came here to California back in the 1970's from Texas and we loved it, and still do! None of us went back. As they say, to each its own.

@JakeRichardsong 2 года назад

I agree with your assessement in general...but that's the price of culture shock. Sounds like maybe NYC would be a better culture fit if you want to pursue PR work. I prefer real people too and experienced the fakeness and traffic in LA. Left after less than a year.

@em4475 2 года назад

Been watching your videos the last few days and just stumbled across this one, can’t help but laugh because I grew up in San Juan Capistrano!

@austinpaula8188 2 года назад

Los Angeles was my childhood so many memories and parts of Los Angeles I did some Broadway shows as a kid the tasty food from olvera street always buying folklorico boots and costumes performing at the luckman fine arts complex, Ford amphitheatre, I attended la city college, east Los Angeles college when I was in middle school our school got to go to the museum of Anne Frank, Griffith Observatory, when I was a kid I thought I was so cool because I got to go inside LA ink (owned by kat Von D) oh my gosh I was always enchanted when we drove on the freeway and drove past abc , universal 34, nickelodeon, cartoon network building los Angeles really is all about entertainment it's crazy

@davidgonzales2274 2 года назад

When we get older the weather. The folks the costs. Maybe effect us more than it needs to. Live in san francisco went tto thr art museum to see all the paintings in all the art books. Swam. In the river were gold was discovered in sacramento. Went to doger station the olympics. Now 69 memories are good but the people make the memories and make way fot the others.

@betzyri 2 года назад

Thanks for sharing your experience with us! My husband and I are hoping to move to Austin in the future.

@LivingInAustinGroup 2 года назад

That’d be lovely! Where are you two currently residing?

@pinkiistar 2 года назад

The last part of story is so great! I have always loved Texas and happy to leave California in a couple of months!

@kleinkourtney 2 года назад

Love this video Frank! Keep up the goods!

@LivingInAustinGroup 2 года назад

Much appreciated, Kourtney!

@dandaniel6917 2 года назад

Don't let the door hit u on the way out of California and thank u for leaving California

@xjumpmaster82 2 года назад

Good example, Exactly how "some" California people talk. 🤦🏻‍♂️

@emmef7970 Год назад

@@xjumpmaster82 Seems like I have heard way worse comments from Texans about California. Californians don't generally make derogatory comments about Texas. I certainly don't speak like that about Texas but it seems Texans whether they have ever been to California or not love to spew their disdain towards CA., and no other state? Why is that? And, of course it's generally focused on the "cities" of L.A. and San Francisco. Not even the counties as a whole. Almost every comment section I read on RU-vid that mentions CA, Texans are the ones most vocal about everything wrong with the state. If this comment is the worst thing you have heard and find it so distasteful, you must be pretty thin skinned and sheltered. And, if you don't think Texans speak like this and even worse you are delusional. I've known my share of Texans through the years. I was also involved with a Texas "gentleman" when I was much younger, he was the one and only man I have ever been involved with that was rude (not to me), disrespectful and mean to everyone, ie: our friends, parents, restaurant staff, kids, etc. As far as I noticed, his family never saw this side of him. I'll venture a guess and wager a bet he is still the same. Thankfully, I had the sense to kick him to the curb before wasting years of my life with him. So I'm here to say, "some" Texans are way more vile than this commenter. And, I don't doubt, that many Texan's would make the same comment or something more rude to anyone that was not happy living in their state. Me, I wouldn't necessarily phrase it as the commenter did but I certainly don't find it offensive. If you don't like it, leave. I would, however, say, I love the fact that "some" people are leaving the state. makes my heart hopeful for the future of the state. Hopefully the migration out of CA continues, there are too many "fame & fortune and wealth seekers, Hollywood wannabe's, that have caused the majority of influx to the state. Plus, there are known states that import their homeless population by buying them one way tickets to sunny California, by selling them the fact that they don't have to worry about the cold & snow in the winters. I would love to see my state downsize, where those people go, I don't care. I wish them well. :) Texas should be warned though, massive migration might not be in the best interest of the state. Isn't that what happened in CA? What might it look like in another 20 years? Just so you know, I'm not a Texas hater. I have loved my time spent there, except for the heat! lol.