I moved my family from California to Austin, Texas, and regretted it. Here are 10 things to consider before making an expensive mistake.

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Brett Alder
Brett Alder.

Brett Alder

Sen. Ted Cruz is worth at least $2.6 million, according to financial disclosures

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Sen. Ted Cruz, a Texas Republican

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An American Airlines passenger says she never wants to fly again after her suitcase was seemingly 'run over,' destroying $1,000 worth of her stuff

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How the inside of Tiffany's luggage looked after her checked baggage was returned to her following an American Airlines flight.
How the inside of Tiffany's luggage looked after her checked baggage was returned to her following an American Airlines flight.

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Dried-up Texan river bed reveals perfectly-preserved tracks of 111-foot-long dinosaur

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A three-toed track in the dried-up Paluxy riverbed, with some remaining water in the background, in Dinosaur Valley State Park in Glen Rose, Texas, in August 2023.
A three-toed track in Dinosaur Valley State Park in Glen Rose, Texas.

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Forget snowbirds: 'Sweat birds' flee the heat of Texas and Arizona to spend summer in cooler northern climates

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Cindy Woudenberg lives most of her year in Arizona and spends the hotter months in Michigan.

Cindy Woudenberg

Texas is about to shut down an election office in a heavily Democratic county that includes Houston less than two months before the city's mayoral election

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Red yard signs in Texas that read
Election administration offices in Texas' Harris County, home to Houston, will soon close after a challenge from state Republicans.

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A Texas judge has declared unconstitutional a law championed by Gov. Greg Abbott that limits the power of Democratic-led cities

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Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas signed the bill into law in June.

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A sunken World War 1-era wooden ship potentially the size of a football field was discovered in a Texas river by a man on a jet ski after severe drought revealed the wreckage

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The wreckage found by Bill Milner in the Neches River; an example of a wooden boat produced under the Emergency Fleet Corporation in World War 1.
The wreckage found by Bill Milner in the Neches River; a wooden boat produced under the Emergency Fleet Corporation in World War 1.

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Texas education board members vow to keep PragerU out of public schools after one state official went rogue

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SBOE member Staci Childs speaks at Tuesday's press conference.

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Abbott's Texas National Guard set up a secret spy operation and treated the border like it was the war in Iraq: whistleblowers

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Left: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott; right: A Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) trooper supporting Operation Lone Star looks over the Rio Grande at the U.S.-Mexico Border on March 23, 2021 in McAllen, Texas.

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