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BFP 12.20.2010 :: missed m/c 1/2011 around 8 weeks
BFP @ 9dpo 5.24.2011 :: missed m/c 6/2011 around 7 weeks
positive for ANAs (1:40) with a speckled pattern
MTHFR c677t mutation (heterozygous)
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BFP @ 9dpo 2.1.2012 || HCG = 8 : Progesterone = 19.2
2nd HCG @ 11dpo = 40 || 3rd HCG @ 21dpo = over 5000!
Stick, little one, stick! EDD October 15, 2012
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Attempt at a controversial poll... transplants
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BFP 12.20.2010 :: missed m/c 1/2011 around 8 weeks
BFP @ 9dpo 5.24.2011 :: missed m/c 6/2011 around 7 weeks
positive for ANAs (1:40) with a speckled pattern
MTHFR c677t mutation (heterozygous)
*folic acid, baby asprin, Prometrium, acupuncture, Lovenox*
BFP @ 9dpo 2.1.2012 || HCG = 8 : Progesterone = 19.2
2nd HCG @ 11dpo = 40 || 3rd HCG @ 21dpo = over 5000!
Stick, little one, stick! EDD October 15, 2012
Re: Attempt at a controversial poll... transplants
I'll go first
I'm really torn about this issue. I know lots of transplants, obviously, and love them! In some ways, I love the diversity it brings to Austin and my life. In some ways, I don't like Austin being changed to be like other places (coughCaliforniacough). I don't mind growth and change, as long as it's where Austin wants to grow. When they start shutting down Jimmy LeFave playing accoustic music at Shady Grove at 7pm .... things are getting too uptight. And yes, I tend to blame that somewhat on "transplants" moving in.
Man ... I hope this isn't flame worthy. I'm a wuss.
Ok fine, I'll start.
I think transplants are fine. Except when they come from HCOL areas and buy up all the good real estate. Or expect there to be a strip mall on every corner for their convenience (coughcoughIhatethegalleriaandmisstheBackyarddittoSouthparkMeadowscough). Or whine about Austin not having ______ because whatever place they came from had it and it was so much better.
I do like that Austin attracts liberal, creative people that usually tend to be pretty open-minded. I love the diversity. Of course that means that my industry is crowded full of people competing for the same few jobs.
BFP 12.20.2010 :: missed m/c 1/2011 around 8 weeks
BFP @ 9dpo 5.24.2011 :: missed m/c 6/2011 around 7 weeks
positive for ANAs (1:40) with a speckled pattern
MTHFR c677t mutation (heterozygous)
*folic acid, baby asprin, Prometrium, acupuncture, Lovenox*
BFP @ 9dpo 2.1.2012 || HCG = 8 : Progesterone = 19.2
2nd HCG @ 11dpo = 40 || 3rd HCG @ 21dpo = over 5000!
Stick, little one, stick! EDD October 15, 2012
Word.
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So true. I got SO mad when I saw a "Keep Austin Normal" bumper sticker once. Um... go away and leave if you don't like it, buddy.
BFP 12.20.2010 :: missed m/c 1/2011 around 8 weeks
BFP @ 9dpo 5.24.2011 :: missed m/c 6/2011 around 7 weeks
positive for ANAs (1:40) with a speckled pattern
MTHFR c677t mutation (heterozygous)
*folic acid, baby asprin, Prometrium, acupuncture, Lovenox*
BFP @ 9dpo 2.1.2012 || HCG = 8 : Progesterone = 19.2
2nd HCG @ 11dpo = 40 || 3rd HCG @ 21dpo = over 5000!
Stick, little one, stick! EDD October 15, 2012
I am so guilty of this....but I know y'all would be happy with a trader joe's and H&M, too!!!!
You got me there... if Austin got an H&M I probably would not complain.
BFP 12.20.2010 :: missed m/c 1/2011 around 8 weeks
BFP @ 9dpo 5.24.2011 :: missed m/c 6/2011 around 7 weeks
positive for ANAs (1:40) with a speckled pattern
MTHFR c677t mutation (heterozygous)
*folic acid, baby asprin, Prometrium, acupuncture, Lovenox*
BFP @ 9dpo 2.1.2012 || HCG = 8 : Progesterone = 19.2
2nd HCG @ 11dpo = 40 || 3rd HCG @ 21dpo = over 5000!
Stick, little one, stick! EDD October 15, 2012
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this reminds me of the 80s/90s when california had a huge influx of people - I remember seeing a bumper sticker saying, "welcome to CA, now go home."
I'm glad texans are more welcoming!
So true! Perhaps I'm only irritated when people complain about not having things I don't also want.
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I haven't met too many transplants that I actually liked. They all seem to complain about something or the other about Austin. So my thinking is, if they have those gripes and they think their original homeplace is so much better, then why don't they just leave?
I think I'm kind of a transplant too, I came to UT and wouldn't leave. However, I don't really complain about Austin much, I usually won't talk it up to people who don't live here though, b/c I don't want anyone else moving here
I would like a Trader Joe's though...
Hahaha! Oh there were totally "Go Back To California" bumper stickers. I haven't seen one in a while though.
Hehe, and ... we are glad to have you!
Because some of us (or our DH's) have a really good job here.
What part of West Texas did you grow up? I lived in the panhandle (Amarillo to be exact) for about 12 years and hated it!
We moved from Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, NC, which is also overrun by transplants. It's much worse there than it is here. Friends of ours there had moved from Maryland, and they said I was the first southerner they'd met in NC... and I'm not from North Carolina. It seemed like every other person we met in NC had moved there from the northeast, and they were driving up the real estate prices.
We've been in Austin for three years, and we love it. We have no plans to leave any time soon! We came here for DH's job, and so far, the area is a good fit for us.
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I'm a transplant so I should say I love them
But I couldn't live in Round Rock anymore. Maybe the transplants are to blame, but the growth in that town was too much for me. They are building so much and the roads can't handle it. Going anywhere is a nightmare because of traffic. Two years ago, our apt complex at the corner of 1460 and Old Settlers seemed like it was in the middle of nowhere. I don't even recognize that corner anymore because they have built so much there.
I love Belton/Temple because it still has that country feel. I'll be very sad if all the farms are gone in 10 years and there's a Walgreens on every corner.
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This. We moved here because of DH's job. Austin is a nice place to live and we have been here for 3 years, but it doesn't feel like home to us. We are moving up to CO once DH is finished with school... we miss being close to family so much and CO is a better fit for us all around. Austin will always be special to us because this is where we started our life together, adopted our dog, bought our first house, etc.
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I don't think I grip about Austin, but believe me, if I could get DH to move to Seattle I would go home in a heartbeat!! Nothing against Austin because I like it here pretty well and I've made it home, but I just really really love my hometown.
I can totally see DH having this bumper sticker on his truck if he were a bumper sticker sort of person. He's a native Austinite that has lived here his whole life though, minus a few years when he was 5-8 that they lived in N Texas. From his POV, Austin didn't used to be so liberal/ weird. He prefers more of the small-southern-town vibe that it used to be. Granted it isn't that anymore at all, but that bumper sticker doesn't necessarily hold the negative connotation that it may translate to for another person.
As far as my opinion, I don't see why anyone cares where anyone else is from. My mom moved my sisters and I here in our early teens and we had no choice. We've made families and friends, but we still don't completely feel at home here and constantly hearing that I was a "transplant" didn't help me feel at home, either. I don't take offense to "Native Texan" pride, I just don't see the point in pointing a finger at "transplants" and evaluating whether they belong here or not.
This. I was an Army brat. My parents moved to Round Rock when my dad got out of the Army. Even after that, I've lived in Orlando, Monterey CA and Seattle. To be honest, I came back to TX for three reasons:
1) My mom and brother are here( being in the military you become very close to your family) . And his family is all in El Paso.
2) IT IS CHEAP! Really, the cost of living is much better than anywhere else I've lived so far.
3) As petty as it sounds, my tattoo artist is here. Once you find a good artist, you don't leave.
I'd love to be able to move around more once we have a family but moving is expensive. So who knows how long we are here.
Speaking of pretentious...
I'm really surprised by some of the provincial responses to this post. We do not live in a vacuum; the xenophobic attitude is useless & unbecoming.
That may also depend on how he grew up here. A friend of my mother's moved to Austin in her late teens/early 20s which was in the early 70s. She has some pretty ... interesting ... stories that would make you think Austin was pretty weird and liberal!