Houston vs L.A.

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Re: Houston vs L.A.

@khattichic

You can’t compare SoCal with Austin lol…it’s like apples and oranges. Obviously, if a person can afford to live on the West Coast, it’s a no brainer. But when you look at what a $350,000 house in Austin or Dallas gets you vs a $350,000 house in SoCal…well…

I have lived in SoCal/West, Mid, East and in south and have enjoyed what each region has to offer. If we take out job related restrictions, here is the list in order where I want to live

1. West (specially SoCal)
2. South
3. East
4. Mid West

I have put SoCal at top because here I find right balance of

• quality education (for kids and adults)
• Islamic resources (mosques, Islamic school, halal good etc)
• great weather (you can go out and enjoy your day almost all year except when its raining)
• Enough desi population to socialize in our desi setting but not enough for someone to show up at our door every day asking for piaz or aaloo or some desi auntie telling my wife that she saw me with some chick during lunch hour

Yes it does come with the price tag though. So if saving is the top goal, I’d advise against it. I actually moved out of SoCal and moved to South for around 8 years for same purpose and moved back couple of years ago.

PS: btw, We also enjoyed Toronto a lot and we would have stayed there had it not for my wife and son getting ill more frequently due to cold weather. We still own a property there so who knows we might move back someday.