02 December 2007

Step One: Research

After deciding on Austin, it was time for some heavy duty internet research. Getting the lay of the land was easy enough, there's a river (Town Lake) that cuts the city in half (north and south) and an interstate (I-35) that divides it the other way (west and east). The downtown is in the northwest quadrant, the so-called 'seedy' area is in the northeast, the hip and 'real' area is the southwest and the airport is in the southeast.





The best site that I discovered is the Austin forum on city-data.com. This site contains a wealth of information from people who live in Austin and from other people who are moving to Austin. With this site and others, I started to put together a mental image of the area and I began to get a feel of the kind of place it is.



The next step is to pay Austin a visit to see what all the hype is about.

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