I miss Austin

Living in Grapevine is the essence of being a soccer mom and I’m a guy. Here you’ve got professionals with money, big houses and expensive cars. They have pretty much everything. So, they don’t go anywhere except to, well, soccer games (or football games). It’s nice and quiet... and boring.

Now, DFW is a big city, right? There must be tons of places to go, right? Well, there are, but they are all spread out. I can go hang out in Arlington at the one decent bar there... Sadly, I’ve been doing that off and on for nearly four years and I’m tired of it even though it’s 15 minutes aways. I could go to Fort Worth and hang out at Sundance Square. Again, been there, done that. Repeatedly. And, while I occasionally have fun, I’m usually bored. And, it’s thirty minutes away. Dallas is another difficult one. There is simply too much of it. There are cool places to go, but getting a group together to head over there is difficult. And, then meeting someone over there, you might be meeting someone from the other side of Dallas. No thanks.

I really miss Austin. It was small enough and big enough, there were good fun local places to hang out and downtown was not all that distant. In fact, you could go have fun downtown, come home and change, and still make a late party up town without any difficulty. I know, I’ve done it. I have a convenient sports bar in Austin, a goodly number of single friends and there’s a large number of young professionals there to date, not to mention my favourite clothing store (the only location in Dallas is 30 miles away and half the selection).

So, why have I been complaining about Austin since I got there? Well, I missed my friends in Europe, a lot. I missed Europe, a lot. I missed warm, not nuclear, Summers. Of course, now that it’s Winter, I don’t miss the cold of Europe so much. Heck, two weeks ago I got to eat outside at night in Austin. Can’t do that in late November in Lille. And, while I miss my Summers in France and England, I’m sure there is a way to deal with the insane heat in Austin. I mean, heck, I survived the hottest Summer on record last year, right? It can only get better.

I miss my friends in Austin and all the things we did and could do. I’m not sure if I want to stay in Austin permanently, but I can definitely say that I miss it right now and I’m looking for any way to get back there. Who knows, maybe I’ll want to stay there forever. There certainly are some nice places to live.

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Copyright: 2009-12-05 08:57:37