Houston

Ive been in Austin for two years now after 6 years in Houston and my first 25 years in new orleans.

I would not live in Houston again unless I was getting paid a ridiculous amount more money than I could make anywhere else. Id start looking in other states etc for work, living in Houston after having lived in Austin would have killed me. I lived in one of the youngest trendiest areas of houston (midtown) and it does not hold a candle to life in austin. Sorry to be a debbie downer, but I really disliked Houston.

Yeah, I lived in Midtown from 2008-2010, and not going to lie, I ran out of there as fast as I could back to New Orleans. But Midtown to me was all leased-BMW's, complete tools for dudes, stuck-up sorority princesses for women, etc. So being that all of the above was not my scene (and apparently not your scene either), Midtown was a horrible place to live. I stayed around Rice Village for a month and Montrose for two, and life was completely different there than in Midtown.
I can't believe I've just defended Houston two posts in a row :)