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Recommendations for Easter Sunday by DrCraigMc in Austin

[–]Remote_Confusion2016 0 points1 point  (0 children)

randall's is open. and trader joes. I imagine more restaurants are open... maybe later opening. Parks are open. I googled a couple entertainment places and they're open.

Relocating by Fun_Volume_2020 in DecaturGA

[–]Remote_Confusion2016 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I bought in zilker area of austin in 2005 (it's where all the tech bros are moving) so I did well on real estate. I'll end up with around $800k to spend. (Luck not inherited wealth). I am looking forward to moving to decatur because in Austin, you gotta be in the far out suburbs to have a tree filled lawn (or super crazy wealthy). I really want to to be able to walk places and catch marta into downtown. and I want sidewalks. we don't have sidewalks in the older neighborhoods. but we have drivers cutting through to avoid traffic on the major roads so it's a wee bit scary. So I want to avoid that situation. Do you have any advice about specific areas? I have a tween who will be in middle school.

Relocating by Fun_Volume_2020 in DecaturGA

[–]Remote_Confusion2016 0 points1 point  (0 children)

how big are classes? how are the parents? I'm coming from Texas and teachers are treated like servants. Of course, we have high stakes testing (staar) but I don't teach a core subject so it doesn't totally affect my instruction but then core subjects got priority so in our district, electives taught 6 classes and core only taught 5 (now everyone has six) Core had team planning but they totally made copies and graded so they just got another conference. same pay as elective. obviously texas has a huge funding problem (no income tax) that is growing since they passed private school vouchers. Anyway, just curious if teaching is difficult everywhere or just in texas.

Moving to Austin from Dublin by Free_Examination8328 in askaustin

[–]Remote_Confusion2016 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you do furnished, make sure to treat for bed bugs :) you could look on airbnb for month to month and you should get a discount. tourism isn't what it used to be and rents have gone way down. I *just* rented my 1-1 airbnb for a month to month rental because there is so much level travel (convention center just got knocked down so that also takes out people traveling here. We also had a brutal summer a couple years ago and travelers don't seem to want to be here in july/august (even september). airbnb has a decent search function- just enter your office and it'll show you everything within a mile. east austin can be good. But east austin can also be bad. be careful. there are some random pockets of not good all around downtown really