Reply #3: Speaking as a dual Austinite/Seattlite he'll be just fine.

[martymar64]

Both are first class towns. Austin BBQ is awesome to say the least, but Seattle seafood is absolutely to die for. Both have excellent music scenes.
I see them both as equal but different. I guess the differences are more in the negatives. Seattle is wet much of the year, but you will never encounter the brutal heat that is here in Austin for 6 months out of the year. The street numbering system in Seattle is pretty daunting with numbered streets going both North/South AND East/West (go to the corner of 15th Street E and 20th Ave NE, huh?????!11!!) .Here I constantly am confused by all the different FM an RM roads (Is it 2222 or 2224?, 1325? Aargghhhh!!!!). Both have shitty traffic but great public transport systems.

As for the furniture, Damn! I wish I saw this earlier!