What if???

[flyphisher #]

What if you were 28, watching 30 chase you down.... Have a college education and a good dog, and a little $ saved....Say you were ready for a change of scenery,career,lifestyle etc....and had nothing really holding you down. Just what yould you do????  8-)

Austin and Beaumont Tx. are on my shortlist right now..Grad school at UT in a few years if i stay there...Really like Austin, have a few friends there already, and the girl(once in a lifetime type, i am getting a 2nd chance with) i am seeing  wants to move there from Dallas, where she went after we finished college to work. I miss living in a college town(athens). I feel like being back in that enviroment and it being in the Hill country will be the perfect place to spend some time figuring out what to do with the next 25-30 years...One of my best friends has been in Austin for grad school the last 3 years and has the fishing all figured out as far as flyfishing goes.. ;D  Plus its no big deal to go to the gulf for the weekend...

[justfishin]

Ah, to be young and have those options again. I would give my left ___ to have choices like that. You are a lucky guy.

[Long Mike]

Stay the hell away from Beaumont.  Go to the hill country.

[Cajun1977]

Stay the hell away from Beaumont. Go to the hill country.

mike tell us how you really feel ;D

[FishingBuds]

Stay the hell away from Beaumont. Go to the hill country.

SMART MAN-listen to him. If I could do it again- i'd go back sign for 800 acres in Kentucky-instead of 5acres in Indiana, . I'm not your visiting neighbor kind of guy.

I likes it to myself ;D

still keep the family, I love my family the Lord has blessed me with

[flyphisher #]

Anywhere cool on the Texas coast???? or is it the kind of place you only visit to fish? What about south LA, anywhere pleasant?

As long as I am 2-3 hours from dallas or closer....I kinda want to be close to saltwater, but the hill country is really talking to me.... i dont mind these big decisions though ;D

I am thinking about even trying to live a while with just a nice mountain bike to get around.....

[burleytog]

The best thing about the hill country is the hunting.

As for Austin...fine if you like hippies.

[mattm]

1)Fredricksburg

2)Marble Falls

3)Corpus

4)Austin

The Hill country rocks.

[flechero]

Say you were ready for a change of scenery,career,lifestyle etc

 

I did just that, but in my mid 30's.  I ended up about 45 miles north of Austin, in Belton.

The Austin job market can be tough... so many people want to be there that even the starbucks employees are college grads.  ...lol  If you want to be in Austin proper, I'd find a good job before comitting to it.

The Austin area offers unbelievable fishing opportunities all around, and saltwater close enough for an easy weekend trip (by car, not bike!) and IMO the best thing of all...  smallies on the fly rod, just up the road a few miles!!!  (Georgetown, Stillhouse and Belton lakes)

There are some cool places on the coast as well.

[Guest avid]

I would find a young lady to love, who loves me.

plan a life with her.

have babies.

and live happily ever after.

[Bass Hammer]

;D ;D

[flyphisher #]

Doesnt have to be Austin proper, would rather live on the outskirts....As far as the job market which part of the texas coast or austin area is best? I know about the fishing, i cant wait....just got to figure out as much as i can before i go out there to start looking at things.

Avid, I have the gorgeous, young lady ,that also fishes, waiting on me between her and the fishing i cant get there fast enough....she has already moved to dallas but is going to relocate when i figure out what i want to do. best thing is in the far forseeable future neither of us want babies and marriage isnt an issue, because we dont want to ever be divorced ......

[mattm]

Fly,

I don't know for sure, but I would think that the job market in the Austin area would be much better than the coast.

[Long Mike]

flyphisher, I grew up in deep South Louisiana, in a little town South of Lafayette called Abbeville.  If you want to move to that part of the world, you will be living amongst the Cajuns, who are some of the finest people in the world.  I should know, I married one.  You will also be living amongst heat and humidity like you wouldn't believe.  Also, let's not forget the salt marshes, which breed mosquitoes like you wouldn't believe.  Beaumont is just across the Louisiana border and suffers from the same conditions.  I'm sure there are nice areas in Beaumont, but it is a heavy industry area.  I grew up down there, but I will never move back.  Sure, the fresh and salt water fishing, along with hunting are great, but, as far as I am concerned, the disadvantages far outweigh the advantages.

[Catt]

Yea stay away from Beaumont, you might have to fish Sabine Lake one of the best Speckle Trout & Redfish lakes around; you may have to fish the Bass-N-Bucks Trail located in near by NEDERLAND with tournaments on Toledo, Rayburn, Conroe, & Livingston.

[cart7t]

Get out of St. Louis, move somewhere south very, very close to water.  

[flyphisher #]

St. louis  :-? :-?

I am from Ga.....

Catt,

my thoughts hadnt even made it that far.... ;D

Having so much to get done before I can set move is killing me...

havent been this excited in a while....

[Matt Fly]

    Austin is a wise choice, its central location makes it an easy place to travel out of, whether to the coast or to Lake Fork.

Hookem

Matt

[fishbear]

I would find a young lady to love, who loves me.

plan a life with her.

have babies.

and live happily ever after.

Well said Avid, well said.  Could not agree more.  Wish someone had told me exactly that about 20 yrs ago.