I do have to worry that there’s a selection effect!
I imagine there is! I’m not sure how strong it is. A lot of people I know were students, so they had some choice about where to live, but only so much and leaving wasn’t as easy as it could be. Others were there for tech jobs and were very much there by choice.
Where have you lived, if you don’t mind my asking?
I’m mostly comparing to Los Alamos, NM and SF/Berkeley. I also lived in some other towns for college, and they seemed similarly mediocre to Los Alamos. I’m kind of meh about Whole Foods, and I think Berkeley Bowl is good, but not worth getting excited about, if that helps.
If we moved to Austin, I predict the optimal set-up will have some of MIRI in the city and some outside the city, with one of those groups commuting. But it may be hard to achieve that mostly-optimal-for-us set-up.
My guess is that living in the city and commuting out of it is less of a bummer than the other way around, but either way, commuting in Austin isn’t great. It would, of course, depend on where you are in the city, and you can probably avoid the worst of it by not trying to get to downtown at 9am or whatever. As I recall, driving out of the city in the morning usually wasn’t too bad.
I imagine there is! I’m not sure how strong it is. A lot of people I know were students, so they had some choice about where to live, but only so much and leaving wasn’t as easy as it could be. Others were there for tech jobs and were very much there by choice.
I’m mostly comparing to Los Alamos, NM and SF/Berkeley. I also lived in some other towns for college, and they seemed similarly mediocre to Los Alamos. I’m kind of meh about Whole Foods, and I think Berkeley Bowl is good, but not worth getting excited about, if that helps.
My guess is that living in the city and commuting out of it is less of a bummer than the other way around, but either way, commuting in Austin isn’t great. It would, of course, depend on where you are in the city, and you can probably avoid the worst of it by not trying to get to downtown at 9am or whatever. As I recall, driving out of the city in the morning usually wasn’t too bad.