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Topic: OT - What made you happy today?

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Gigem

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Re: OT - What made you happy today?
« Reply #140 on: May 15, 2025, 04:45:49 PM »
And then there's me-- born in Austin, raised in Austin, went to undergrad in Austin, worked in Austin, went to grad school in Austin, worked some more in Austin, and then moved all the way to... Cedar Park.  Oh and I work in Round Rock.

I'm crazy like that.
And how about your and wife's family?  Pretty much my entire family lives within probably 30 minutes from me, maybe a cousin here or there that may live somewhere else in Texas but I can't think of anybody who lives way off.  College Station was about a 2-2.5 hr drive from here and that's about as far away as I moved.  I did live in San Jose for a month when I worked for AMAT, but we were just training.  

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Re: OT - What made you happy today?
« Reply #141 on: May 15, 2025, 04:49:30 PM »
And then there's me-- born in Austin, raised in Austin, went to undergrad in Austin, worked in Austin, went to grad school in Austin, worked some more in Austin, and then moved all the way to... Cedar Park.  Oh and I work in Round Rock.

I'm crazy like that.

I'm old enough to remember when commuting between Cedar Park and Round Rock was quite a chore in rush hour.  Or any hour, really.  When I was living in Round Rock and dating a girl in Cedar Park and doing a lot of landscaping work in the CP and Leander area, I would've killed for that 45 toll road thingy y'all got now.  All I had was slow-ass 680 with a bazillion red lights. 

See, back in my day we didn't have all the fancy highways you kids enjoy now :72:

utee94

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Re: OT - What made you happy today?
« Reply #142 on: May 15, 2025, 04:54:43 PM »
Yeah both set of folks live in Austin.  Only my MIL is originally from Austin, though.  My FIL is from Terrell, my dad is from Alpine, and my mom is from Temple.

But of course one of the big reasons we've chosen to stay here, is to remain near family, especially once we had kids.

Both my brother and sister also live in Austin, although my sister lived in various places in Florida for about 15 years before coming back.

And my wife's sister is back in Austin after spending most of the past 20 years in Colorado and Oregon.  She's very much a hippie chick but she's back in Austin, for now.  Her brother is in New Jersey right now but that's because his wife is in the Air Force.  They've also lived in San Antonio, the Bay Area, the DC area, over the past 10 years.  But he's also lived in Austin much of his life and as soon as his wife hits 20 years in the Air Force, next year, they're going to move to the house they've built on their property just outside of Fredericksburg. 

We're actually looking at some land very close to theirs, we just might retire there too, unless I can convince my wife to move to some island in the Caribbean!


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Re: OT - What made you happy today?
« Reply #143 on: May 15, 2025, 05:08:14 PM »
Alpine.....wow.  I only recently learned of that town because there is a state university there our ERP department supports.  They don't have their own, it seems.  That's quite a haul to Austin.  Did your grandparents remain there, or other members of your dad's family? 

The ERP folks in my office have to go to Alpine for a week at a time every now and then.  By the time they drive back, they act like they need vacations, except they don't want to drive anymore.  

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« Reply #144 on: May 15, 2025, 05:19:20 PM »
Alpine.....wow.  I only recently learned of that town because there is a state university there our ERP department supports.  They don't have their own, it seems.  That's quite a haul to Austin.  Did your grandparents remain there, or other members of your dad's family? 

The ERP folks in my office have to go to Alpine for a week at a time every now and then.  By the time they drive back, they act like they need vacations, except they don't want to drive anymore. 
Yeah Sul Ross State University.  It was directly across the street from my grandparents' house.  They lived there until my grandmother passed away and my grandfather came to live at our house until he also passed.  I was in college by then but still living at home during the summers so I got to spend a lot of time with my grandpa those last few years.

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« Reply #145 on: May 15, 2025, 07:39:39 PM »
Honestly it just boggles my mind how some of you can be so spread around the country.  Some of you born on one coast, went to school in the mid-west, kids living all over the country/world. 
Born in the Chicago 'burbs. Have lived in San Jose, Orange County, Atlanta, and back to Orange County. My brother is here, one sister is in NJ, and another sister lives on a boat in the Caribbean part of the year and in Vail other parts. Parents were lifelong Chicagoans but now live in the Denver 'burbs.

For now, my kids are stuck in OC (bc they're minors) but I have no clue where they'll end up. Not sure whether I'll stay here once we're empty nesters either...

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Re: OT - What made you happy today?
« Reply #146 on: May 15, 2025, 08:31:14 PM »
Born in the Chicago 'burbs. Have lived in San Jose, Orange County, Atlanta, and back to Orange County. My brother is here, one sister is in NJ, and another sister lives on a boat in the Caribbean part of the year and in Vail other parts. Parents were lifelong Chicagoans but now live in the Denver 'burbs.

For now, my kids are stuck in OC (bc they're minors) but I have no clue where they'll end up. Not sure whether I'll stay here once we're empty nesters either...
Southern Florida is lovely!

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« Reply #147 on: May 15, 2025, 08:33:55 PM »
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« Reply #148 on: Today at 12:48:57 AM »
Southern Florida is lovely!
They have dinosaurs. 

 

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