I just happened on this blog by complete accident while looking for information about planting a garden in Austin in October (yes, it's possible, in fact, it's ideal)...anyhoo, I just had to say this.

I love Austin, loooove it, but the traffic is absolutely, completely insane. If you do not live and work in the same quadrant of the city, you will spend what will seem an interminable amount of time sitting in traffic or driving really fast on very congested freeways. I'm not sure which sucks more.

I lived in Boston for a year. Boston drivers are crazier -- what the hell is that turn left when the light turns green b.s.? -- but Austin traffic is much more annoying and soul-draining. And we have no viable public transportation here yet. It is promised, and I hope the promise pans out.

In short, you would like it here, but you would complain about the traffic all the time like the rest of us.