Do the Most Hipster Thing Possible – Move to Des Moines

Re:Do the Most Hipster Thing Possible – Move to Des Moines by eli on Saturday November 15, 2014 @11:48AM (#8612023)

I hear Austin is already getting tough: high rents forcing out exactly what made it cool in the first place.

I personally think the value of being in a hot well known startup city is overrated. My startup is in DC and we're doing fine.

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Re:Do the Most Hipster Thing Possible – Move to Des Moines by crazyjayd on Saturday November 15, 2014 @12:02PM (#8612050)

We actually visited Austin to move there, and found the rents/home pricing so much, that we would have to live in a distant cookie cutter home community. We went with Boston, because of bigger job market. Better public transportation and crappier weather (j/k).

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Re:Do the Most Hipster Thing Possible – Move to Des Moines by vcjohnson on Saturday November 15, 2014 @02:28PM (#8612406)

Yeah Austin rents are pretty high in the main area of the city now. You can get decent places/rates a little farther out, but the boom has risen rent prices considerably in the last 5 years. Still much, much less than SF/NYC though.

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