Most relocation content is optimized for search, not for moving.
It is written by people who have not lived in the neighborhood they describe. It is assembled from a spreadsheet of ZIP-code statistics, rewritten by an LLM, and published under a pseudonym. It reads like real-estate marketing because it is.
Landed is different by construction. The residents we quote are real people with composite identities (names and identifying details adjusted at request). The numbers are pulled from public records: Travis County Appraisal District, Austin Police Department, GreatSchools, HAR, Zillow, the Texas Education Agency, the IRS Statistics of Income file. Every figure has a source and we name it.
We write about the trades. We name the things the listicles do not. The catalytic converter in the Mueller H-E-B parking lot. The 1926 sewer line under the Hyde Park bungalow. The six UT football Saturdays that are not yours. The trailing-spouse isolation of the first Westlake year. The precise math of the Eanes-for-tuition trade. We do not smooth the edges.
Who makes Landed
Landed is a small editorial project run by a solo operator who has moved eight times in fifteen years: Seattle, Oakland, Brooklyn, Boston, Denver, Austin, and a short stint in a town that does not get mentioned in the guide because it did not work out. Every city section starts from that lens.
We use LLMs for research synthesis and drafting. We do not use them to invent residents, fabricate quotes, or generate fake data. Every named voice is built from real interviews and named, attributable source material. Every number on the page has a source we will show you on request.
What's on the site
Landed publishes in layers. The city hub is the decision document. The cost of living is the audited ledger. The neighborhoods guide is the comparison document. The regrets is the post-move document. The interviews are the long-form documents.
How we make money
Landed is free to read. We will eventually run a small number of affiliate links to relocation-related services. We do not sell data. We do not embed third-party ad tech. We use Cloudflare Web Analytics, which is cookieless and does not identify individual visitors.
Who this is for
Landed is for the person in the decision: the engineer who got the offer, the family whose third kid is about to age into kindergarten, the couple deciding whether to leave, the trailing spouse who needs the neighborhood-level reality before the lease signs. It is not for the person in the purchase: if you are a week from closing, your realtor knows things we do not.
How to reach us
The best way to tell us we got something wrong is an email to [email protected]. We read every one. We update pages when the facts change or when a reader who lives in the neighborhood tells us something we did not know.