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Austin is much more expensive than Houston which is pretty cheap. There are a few decent places in the Houston suburbs to live. Hopefully you can get work close to where you live or you could end up with a 1 hour commute. You can get anything you want in Houston, it's a huge city.

Austin has a lot more personality than Houston and is full of laid back weird California types. Austin has a big high tech IT scene. Austin gets hotter and colder than Houston since it's farther from the water. Austin is much prettier than Houston which is pretty much flat as far as the eye can see (if it weren't for all of the billboards and crap).

Houston is probably more likely to flood, but all you have to do is check the maps to see where it floods and don't move there.