re: Cost of living: Texas vs Lousiana.

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Property tax would be about $7000 in Texas

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$7,000 Try $16,000 for property tax outside of Austin but in the metro. We pay way less in the Lafayette metro for the same size house and more land.

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In Louisiana you are more likely to have to spend $6,000 to $20,000 grand a year per kid for K-12.

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This is optional. Our kids go to public school in Louisiana. In Austin I knew several doctors who were sending their kids to private junior high and private high schools. They were paying in the $20,000 range.

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For Crime in this country Houston is ranked 19 and New Orleans is ranked 21. So basically they are exactly the same. And New Orleans has the highest crime in the state of Louisiana. Wait a few years and liberal policy will ruin Austin and Dallas and their crime rate will sharply increase.


Your facts are skewed. To live in the cool parts of Austin, Dallas, and Houston are way more expensive and to live a lifestyle of going to expensive restaurants, stores, and activities is going to cost a hell of lot of money. Otherwise living in cookie cutter suburban town going to work, doing kid stuff, hitting up the local chain restaurants, and chain stores is basically your exact same life as if you lived in Louisiana except you waste your vacations on visiting Louisiana to see family while living in Texas. I can think of a thousand better places to spend vacation than Louisiana and I will do more in those out of state cities in a week than most will do living there full time in a year.