See the dramatic changes in Austin nearly 20 years apart, then and now

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  • Опубликовано: 29 окт 2024

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  • @tooajittoquit
    @tooajittoquit 2 месяца назад +156

    Wow… I’ve been here a long time! It’s so crazy to see how much Austin has grown! It’s now the 10th largest city in the US!

    • @davidgmaloof
      @davidgmaloof 2 месяца назад +12

      It was the 10th largest, but that honor now belongs to Jacksonville, FL. Either way, Fort Worth is going to blow past both Austin and Jacksonville in a year or less.

    • @Aggie4life77
      @Aggie4life77 2 месяца назад +22

      When you enter the big leagues amongst cities, you realize that city size is meaningless outside of taxes. It’s metro population that truly determines the size of an area.

    • @thatsTylerDurden
      @thatsTylerDurden 2 месяца назад +5

      And it’s trash!

    • @PolishBehemoth
      @PolishBehemoth Месяц назад +1

      @@thatsTylerDurden lol you sound bitter and mad bro. Nothing about austin is trash.

    • @gh0ulgirl05
      @gh0ulgirl05 Месяц назад +5

      its the #1 trashiest city in texas now! thanks californians ❤

  • @davidbasset7557
    @davidbasset7557 2 месяца назад +222

    “Luxury condos” 🤨

    • @467076
      @467076 Месяц назад +3

      Hardly any rats 😂

    • @AFTER_MIDNITE
      @AFTER_MIDNITE Месяц назад +12

      @@467076
      The largest rat I’ve ever seen was on 6th street. It must’ve been a NYC refugee.

    • @467076
      @467076 Месяц назад +2

      @@AFTER_MIDNITE lmao cold blodded

    • @youMatterItDoesGetBetter
      @youMatterItDoesGetBetter Месяц назад +6

      $600k for a 650sq ft loft in one of the new sky rises off 6th street. It’s a paradise in Austin now, but you’ve gotta make $200k+ to live.

    • @smoovkilla
      @smoovkilla Месяц назад

      @@467076wow what a thrill i get to buy a rodentless place

  • @OB-DoingWork
    @OB-DoingWork 2 месяца назад +196

    If you live long enough everything will change.

    • @dlazo32696
      @dlazo32696 2 месяца назад +3

      Couldn’t have said it better myself ^

    • @Max-zv8hm
      @Max-zv8hm Месяц назад +9

      astute observation. you must have been in special classes.

    • @brianmeen2158
      @brianmeen2158 Месяц назад

      Yes but some changes are much better than others

    • @xx133
      @xx133 Месяц назад +2

      Nothing changed for the better, just aesthetics.

    • @blakesteenrod4765
      @blakesteenrod4765 Месяц назад +1

      Nature doesn’t change

  • @swagistan69420
    @swagistan69420 2 месяца назад +173

    0:43 that chick's quad separation is insane

    • @Liface
      @Liface Месяц назад +14

      Best comment I've read in a long time

    • @divinecomedian2
      @divinecomedian2 Месяц назад +8

      Dayum!

    • @SlugSage
      @SlugSage Месяц назад +7

      Good eye

    • @jimmyconway8025
      @jimmyconway8025 Месяц назад +1

      What

    • @stikkippy1481
      @stikkippy1481 Месяц назад +12

      I can’t really tell, but it doesn’t seem like she has a ton of definition elsewhere, so seeing such a huge leg is pretty interesting. She probably does a lot of leg exercises, and walking I presume.

  • @mstyles2667
    @mstyles2667 Месяц назад +238

    Austin used to be so cool and unique. Now it looks and feels like every other city of its size. Cold and corporate.

    • @jimmyconway8025
      @jimmyconway8025 Месяц назад +22

      I'd say it's almost universal now
      NYC, Miami, London

    • @Sam_T2000
      @Sam_T2000 Месяц назад +6

      I hate both.

    • @jaehparrk
      @jaehparrk Месяц назад +13

      go away sosialist

    • @SulferDragon
      @SulferDragon Месяц назад +11

      That was my first thought when watching this. A lot of the colorful appeal and uniqueness vanished!

    • @BrilliantHandle
      @BrilliantHandle Месяц назад +6

      Austin was only kinda unique in comparison to most American towns. That’s a very low bar.

  • @mariusfacktor3597
    @mariusfacktor3597 2 месяца назад +49

    The Capitol Mall looks fantastic! Austin has a great downtown and it's getting more lively which is great! A lot of this growth looks really good, and economists have said the housing growth brought down rent and home prices because there is so much more supply now than there was 4 years ago.
    Please don't let the downtown i35 expansion happen. They want to demolish 1,000 homes and businesses for it. We don't need more traffic going right through the middle of downtown.

    • @Cycology_Major
      @Cycology_Major Месяц назад

      The city fought the law of TXDOT and the law won

  • @cs292
    @cs292 2 месяца назад +28

    Austin was a tiny little town when I was a kid growing up in San Antonio..and they passed us up pretty fast after BRAC..gave them an Airport.

    • @Hoes_Mad
      @Hoes_Mad 2 месяца назад

      SA is still bigger population wise but Austin definitely surpassed our skyline!

  • @BradThePitts
    @BradThePitts 2 месяца назад +36

    1:05 Good to see that the Daniel Johnston mural has been preserved!

  • @chriswren1825
    @chriswren1825 2 месяца назад +93

    South Park’s SoDoSoPa irl. Happened here in Seattle, too.

    • @dlazo32696
      @dlazo32696 2 месяца назад +2

      😂😂😂

    • @Dave....
      @Dave.... Месяц назад +7

      This might be the best comment in here lol

    • @Sam_T2000
      @Sam_T2000 Месяц назад +6

      have you ever been to Ci-Pa-Town?

    • @Akac3sh
      @Akac3sh Месяц назад +1

      So real

    • @alexlestat
      @alexlestat Месяц назад +2

      Ironically enough, whole foods was founded in Austin

  • @PSTXFL
    @PSTXFL 2 месяца назад +10

    Great video 👍
    I first went to Austin as a kid in 1979, it sure has grown up since then!

  • @Commonwealth96
    @Commonwealth96 Месяц назад +30

    Wild to see so much soul evaporate in front of your eyes

    • @Solotocius
      @Solotocius Месяц назад +7

      What? I only see progress here, no "evaporation".

    • @atticustay1
      @atticustay1 Месяц назад +6

      A lot of it is an improvement

    • @propoop6991
      @propoop6991 Месяц назад +3

      I'm not from austin so I really don't have a say in the culture, but it looked like a sad city 20 years ago (the horrible roads, undeveloped land, lack of trees) so I'd say a lot of it is improvement

  • @camodown
    @camodown 2 месяца назад +10

    Wow. That 2010 skyline is what I know. Haven’t been back since moving away and didn’t realize it changed that much.

  • @KayentaRojo
    @KayentaRojo 2 месяца назад +168

    Why are so many cities loosing color and vibrancy to be replaced with grey, depressing, monotone colors..

    • @eldebtor6973
      @eldebtor6973 2 месяца назад +14

      🏳‍🌈

    • @marcusinfinity9386
      @marcusinfinity9386 2 месяца назад +24

      Uniformity and rainbow agenda

    • @c0rnichon
      @c0rnichon 2 месяца назад +44

      @@marcusinfinity9386 You do realize that uniformity and "rainbow agenda" are the absolute opposite ends of the spectrum, right?

    • @marcusinfinity9386
      @marcusinfinity9386 2 месяца назад +22

      @@c0rnichon not in June

    • @checkoutmyyoutubepage
      @checkoutmyyoutubepage 2 месяца назад

      @@marcusinfinity9386You’re a bot account.

  • @LIFEWITHTHEJONESES1
    @LIFEWITHTHEJONESES1 2 месяца назад +26

    Looks like what's happening here in Nashville.

    • @SulferDragon
      @SulferDragon Месяц назад +2

      Oh no! I hope it doesn't go too far.

  • @josephsantoy1107
    @josephsantoy1107 2 месяца назад +61

    And 35 looks the same lol

  • @pibbitybibbity
    @pibbitybibbity 2 месяца назад +201

    It’s a shame. Austin used to be a wonderful, quirky city. Now it’s just a big city with all the big city problems and very little, if any, of the quirky charm that made Austin Austin.

  • @Nemo71340
    @Nemo71340 2 месяца назад +187

    The gentrification seems very corporate. Like you can tell the people who are gentrifying it aren't Texas natives, it's just what they think "Texas" should look like. It doesn't feel like a natural development it feels forced.

    • @jdos5643
      @jdos5643 2 месяца назад

      You rather have nothing. A flat town with nothing but houses. Ppl like you is why we can’t nice things.

    • @tvviewer4500
      @tvviewer4500 Месяц назад +11

      Dude the people who flocked to Austin from all over the state, like the preacher’s sons who were gay, the lesbians who didn’t want to marry men, the kids who couldn’t cut it on the farms/ranches/oil fields have all been filling up Austin for decades. You are discounting the bulk of Austin’s population

    • @Nemo71340
      @Nemo71340 Месяц назад +21

      @@tvviewer4500 you can meet someone that is gay and still tell if they are from Texas. This just feels like somebody came in from a design studio from out of state and was like “make it look more Texas.”

    • @jdos5643
      @jdos5643 Месяц назад

      @@tvviewer4500 what do you mean the lesbians who didn’t want to marry men? A lesbian does not like men nor are attracted to men. Why would they need to marry one?

    • @Abandonsoyciety
      @Abandonsoyciety Месяц назад

      Lol that's every city, Denver used to have an iconic skyline, now all the new skyscrapers just make it look like a blocky corporate mess. Cities are awful looking.

  • @rodnroll3096
    @rodnroll3096 2 месяца назад +50

    What happened to KEEP AUSTIN WEIRD

    • @TexaSurvival
      @TexaSurvival 2 месяца назад +29

      Somebody bought it and slapped it on t-shirts for nostalgia only.

    • @fosty.
      @fosty. 2 месяца назад +3

      It's too weird.

    • @realSamAndrew
      @realSamAndrew 2 месяца назад +10

      They didn't keep it.

    • @Tea4Texas
      @Tea4Texas 2 месяца назад +5

      It became a bumper sticker

    • @MikeBarbarossa
      @MikeBarbarossa Месяц назад +2

      The color and old artistic flair got replaced with bland light and dark gray architecture

  • @lakin8r
    @lakin8r 2 месяца назад +5

    I remember when the frost building was built it towered over the other buildings for a little while now it’s hard to find surrounded by skyscrapers

  • @baller84milw
    @baller84milw 2 месяца назад +36

    They in fact did not keep Austin weird lol. I love how at 0:26 it literally looks like "The Lofts at SoDoSoPa" from the South Park episode about gentrification 🤣

    • @unknowncurlz
      @unknowncurlz 2 месяца назад +3

      Dude my exact thought with South Park 😂

  • @TucoJames
    @TucoJames Месяц назад +3

    the drive on 35 was beautiful during the 80s.. green pastures, fields with cattle ..now you sees is asphalt n car lots

  • @alejandrohernandez7340
    @alejandrohernandez7340 2 месяца назад +49

    Damn Austin was such a vibe before the 2020s now it’s just a mini California

    • @DiegoMendoza-bg5oh
      @DiegoMendoza-bg5oh 2 месяца назад +19

      Blame Elon Musk and Joe Rogan, it lost its uniqueness

    • @Nilbog-Hunter
      @Nilbog-Hunter 2 месяца назад +13

      Blame yuppies for gouging out the identity of austin

    • @destinfarr
      @destinfarr 2 месяца назад +2

      ​@@DiegoMendoza-bg5ohNowhere close. The city was significantly changing its flavor many years before Elon and Joe became a household name.

    • @austin33785
      @austin33785 2 месяца назад +2

      It's not elons fault

    • @LuckyCharms777
      @LuckyCharms777 Месяц назад +2

      @@DiegoMendoza-bg5oh
      I get it, you hate Elon, but Tesla Austin has only been in operation for 3 years. And Joe has only lived there 4 years and his podcast/club didn’t have any impact on Austin’s growth. Blame SXSW, it put Austin on the national map.

  • @stickynorth
    @stickynorth 2 месяца назад +39

    Nice to see Austin both grow up and fill in... Now get that LRT system built!

    • @1995texasaggie
      @1995texasaggie 2 месяца назад +3

      I helped by giving up my space when I got the "F" out.........$38k per year property taxes on my corner lot in 78702 was more than I could bear.

    • @Cycology_Major
      @Cycology_Major Месяц назад +2

      @@1995texasaggie Monstrous taxes here. One never really owns their property in Texas when the threat of increasingly high property tax looms over you

    • @LuckyCharms777
      @LuckyCharms777 Месяц назад

      @@1995texasaggie
      Wow, $38k on the bad side of town! Your house was probably demolished and now there are 4 tiny cookie cutter homes on the lot that bring in $38k each.

    • @1995texasaggie
      @1995texasaggie Месяц назад +1

      @@LuckyCharms777 I "proofed" the property to keep needle-lovers out.....property hasn't changed yet as I still visit Dan's Hamburgers on Airport Blvd. The area had been changed to Opportunity Zone so there's no telling what it'll become.

    • @LuckyCharms777
      @LuckyCharms777 Месяц назад +1

      @@1995texasaggie
      Wow, I just looked at some housing prices for that area. Old unimproved homes have gone up in value 400-500% in just 12 years!!! That’s great if you want to reap a profit, but for anyone that lived there for a long time and wanted to stay, the property taxes forced them out. It’s so messed up. Politicians always complain about broken communities, but then longtime residents get forced out of their homes.

  • @franand
    @franand 2 месяца назад +67

    Austin is like LA without the nice weather and beaches

    • @uberenthusiasts
      @uberenthusiasts 2 месяца назад +11

      Lmao not even.

    • @Weshopwizard
      @Weshopwizard 2 месяца назад +28

      But still all the californicators.

    • @cameraman655
      @cameraman655 2 месяца назад +24

      @@WeshopwizardCommifornians…👎👎👎

    • @microbios8586
      @microbios8586 2 месяца назад

      There are lots of ugly people in Austin though, unlike LA

    • @c0rnichon
      @c0rnichon 2 месяца назад

      @@cameraman655 lol tech bros are pretty right-wing mostly. They belong in Texas more than in California

  • @02nupe
    @02nupe 2 месяца назад +15

    change is the only constant. Interesting to see all the growth and progress.

    • @LuckyCharms777
      @LuckyCharms777 Месяц назад

      No poop, Sherlock. What rapper shared that kernel of knowledge with you that everyone else already knows? Was it Tupac? 🤡

    • @Solotocius
      @Solotocius Месяц назад

      ​@@LuckyCharms777wrong, it was Heraclitus

    • @LuckyCharms777
      @LuckyCharms777 Месяц назад

      @@Solotocius
      No poop, Sherlock. You failed to grasp my point.

    • @Solotocius
      @Solotocius Месяц назад

      @@LuckyCharms777 just say shit lol

    • @LuckyCharms777
      @LuckyCharms777 Месяц назад

      @@Solotocius
      My comments are constantly censored by RUclips so I have to moderate my language and subject matter.

  • @mrchopsticks3
    @mrchopsticks3 2 месяца назад +17

    Last time I was in Austin was for SXSW in 2004. It was a fun, weird city oozing with charm. Now it just looks like any other city.

  • @portcybertryx222
    @portcybertryx222 Месяц назад +1

    That clip of downtown Austin’s transformation had me gobsmacked. Like literally what happened 😮

  • @jakeinstereo1670
    @jakeinstereo1670 2 месяца назад +19

    The “Hi, How Are You” mural hurts the most (to me) because there used to be a Thai restaurant called “Thai, How Are You” and the food was so good. 😢 Oh how the city has changed. I don’t even recognize SoCo anymore. 😕

    • @Sam_T2000
      @Sam_T2000 Месяц назад +1

      the mural is still there… and I’m pretty sure it’s much older than any restaurant inside.

    • @AFTER_MIDNITE
      @AFTER_MIDNITE Месяц назад +5

      Anybody who uses terms like SoCo is an outsider to me. That’s trendy terminology introduced by carpetbaggers. It’s just as foreign as people who say uptown and midtown.

    • @euphoricmonk
      @euphoricmonk Месяц назад +2

      Super Thai in south lamar is just as good, for reals.

    • @jakeinstereo1670
      @jakeinstereo1670 Месяц назад

      @@AFTER_MIDNITE well I also call the lake Town Lake, but I digress.

    • @jakeinstereo1670
      @jakeinstereo1670 Месяц назад

      @@euphoricmonk ayyy!! Locals know the best spots! I gotta check that one out!!

  • @jswishdaman
    @jswishdaman Месяц назад +6

    Being born and raised in Austin, seeing this is bittersweet. I tell people all the time the Austin you see now isn’t the Austin I grew up in. It’s a whole different place now I can’t even recognize it.

  • @blank.9301
    @blank.9301 Месяц назад +1

    I miss 2006, life was still chill.

    • @tbc9096
      @tbc9096 27 дней назад

      Very much so. To be honest, even the mid-2010s feels radically different than now. I really detest the present.

  • @jimjim01938
    @jimjim01938 Месяц назад +1

    I like how the city is getting some much needed densification and development, but they at least could’ve made everything look a little more rustic and not so grey and corporate

  • @robl326
    @robl326 2 месяца назад +3

    I'm not 100% certain it's the right building because it was 1997, but I'm pretty sure the last time i was in Austin, that Willy Nelson mural was a dragon mural.

  • @BradThePitts
    @BradThePitts 2 месяца назад +54

    Has it ever been proven that the majority of new residents in Austin are from California?

    • @eschiedler
      @eschiedler 2 месяца назад +19

      They're from all over, New York, Georgia, other parts of Texas, etc. I've seen estimates that over 50% are from within Texas and about 8% from California, the rest from elsehwere. But remember people might move first to Dallas from Califronia, then Texas, so it depends.

    • @bryanspilner7370
      @bryanspilner7370 2 месяца назад

      Only the morons

    • @asu5632
      @asu5632 2 месяца назад +5

      They are from all over Texas too calm down. Most are from all parts of Texas

    • @somapersona
      @somapersona 2 месяца назад

      If they aren't Californians they're still Texans that vote like Californians, hence the result

    • @anon2414
      @anon2414 2 месяца назад

      Austin is liberal like California buddy. And the people that think the Californians that are moving to Texas are liberals are dummies. All the conservatives are moving out. WHICH IS WHY THEY ARE MOVING OUT

  • @TonyGue
    @TonyGue Месяц назад +1

    Wow, austin really was a quiet and simple town a long time ago

  • @shazamdeal
    @shazamdeal 2 месяца назад +51

    Austin was more fun 20 years ago

    • @mstyles2667
      @mstyles2667 Месяц назад +7

      Yes it was.

    • @seatstitcher3636
      @seatstitcher3636 Месяц назад +2

      Absolutely!

    • @euphoricmonk
      @euphoricmonk Месяц назад +5

      Everything was more fun 20 years ago. Before "smartphones"

    • @BrilliantHandle
      @BrilliantHandle Месяц назад +1

      @@euphoricmonkyou know, you can choose to stop using a smartphone at any time. No one forces you to use one. Flip phones still exist.

    • @euphoricmonk
      @euphoricmonk Месяц назад +1

      @@BrilliantHandle Of course and I do. My point is still valid, no need to argue.

  • @jvillalaz44
    @jvillalaz44 Месяц назад

    Amazing at the transformation 👏

  • @cooldudep
    @cooldudep Месяц назад +2

    That's how you upgrade a city the right way.

  • @John-ct9zs
    @John-ct9zs Месяц назад +6

    Some of these changes were not that long ago, 2017, 2018, 2019 is all very recent history. But Austin has changed so much in only 5-7 years. Amazing. And I forgot how everyone still read newspapers in the 2000s and you could buy newspapers publicly at the time. I told a kid that recently and he looked at me like I was talking about living in 1935 with a kid selling papers and yelling "extra! extra! read all about it, Hitler on the move!"

    • @BrilliantHandle
      @BrilliantHandle Месяц назад

      So you support journalists and newspapers? You don’t deride them as fake news?

    • @John-ct9zs
      @John-ct9zs Месяц назад

      @@BrilliantHandle Dude are you high? Stop drinking and smoking crack man. I have no idea what you are talking about.

  • @MidnightRider1034
    @MidnightRider1034 15 дней назад

    The downtown skyline transition at 1:29 is actually quite depressing because it gives off a symbol of isolation. In the 2010 pic it shows people are outside in the park, socializing, engaging in activities, exercising and just enjoying life because this was really before social media took off in consuming everyone’s lives, and the 2024 pick shows the park completely empty like no one wants to be outside anymore and everyone’s inside buried on their phones and computers living life completely digitally and isolated

  • @lord_of_love_and_thunder
    @lord_of_love_and_thunder 2 месяца назад +6

    Landed in Austin in 2003. Left for California in 2021. Saw Austin grow in front of my eyes.

    • @bryanspilner7370
      @bryanspilner7370 2 месяца назад +2

      Now stay

    • @BrilliantHandle
      @BrilliantHandle Месяц назад

      @@bryanspilner7370This person moved to California in 2021. Trust me, they are plenty wealthy enough that they can stay. Almost all of those who left California for Texas were those who couldn’t afford Californian home prices.

    • @Quicks1lvr
      @Quicks1lvr Месяц назад +2

      ​@@BrilliantHandleah yes. Only the poors left this proudly democratic state. I'll be sure to tell my uncle, a millionaire, that he would be better off staying here in California paying 2/3 more for housing than where he is now in Tennessee.
      Go step in some human feces like we do in San Francisco. Luckily we have apps to avoid such things

    • @BrilliantHandle
      @BrilliantHandle Месяц назад

      @@Quicks1lvr wow! A millionaire?! So rich! Maybe the richest person in your town! Oh wait, that’s just middle class in San Francisco.

  • @Dangermouse8645
    @Dangermouse8645 Месяц назад +1

    It looks like it had a sense of place that has since been removed.

  • @gregvandell
    @gregvandell 2 месяца назад +12

    I lived in Austin 20 years ago (technically 25), and visited 3 months ago for a work conference. Everywhere I looked there were homeless people, why was that not in this video? Like compared to 25 years ago it was at Lear 100x more homeless.

    • @BrilliantHandle
      @BrilliantHandle Месяц назад

      Supply and demand. Demand goes up but supply doesn’t match it. Fewer people can afford that product. Therefore, more are homeless.

    • @xfloodcasual8124
      @xfloodcasual8124 Месяц назад +1

      It's because when they gentrify, the people hanging on to the lowest rung of apartments all end up on the street. I remember seeing a family of latinos evicted on the front lawn of an apartment with all their luggage and personal items strewn about while demolition began on the back end. A year later, millennials were having a party on the balcony of new "luxury" apartments in their place.

  • @kurtwillig4230
    @kurtwillig4230 2 месяца назад +8

    Loved Austin the way it was in 1975. Now, tho.......

    • @dcooper1115
      @dcooper1115 2 месяца назад +1

      Yeah, well everything was better in 1975.. you could drive drunk and the cops would escort you home. The music was better than it’s ever been since. We peaked. Austin has to change

  • @smoovkilla
    @smoovkilla Месяц назад

    As someone who’s lived in Austin since I was born (thankfully I move the end of this year) this place started declining hard in the 2010s. It was nice in the 2000s. Already was like it is today by 2012. Glad I’m leaving this city lmao. Aint gonna miss it

  • @SURENITY
    @SURENITY 2 месяца назад +42

    R.I.P Historical Rainey District.
    All to make way for soulless apartment Californians…

    • @nicelol5241
      @nicelol5241 2 месяца назад +18

      Half of your city is single family homes and highways that went through vibrant majority black neighborhoods lol, anyways, this is the best to solve the current housing crisis we're in, because a tiny apartment can cost you 2000-3000$, the only issue i think is the gentrification.

    • @eldebtor6973
      @eldebtor6973 2 месяца назад +2

      @@nicelol5241 there were no blacks in austin

    • @azulaquaza4916
      @azulaquaza4916 2 месяца назад +4

      @@eldebtor6973Austin is 8% black with more in the Suburbs wtf are you on about

    • @eldebtor6973
      @eldebtor6973 2 месяца назад +2

      @@azulaquaza4916 they were kicked out. keep Austin weird

    • @azulaquaza4916
      @azulaquaza4916 2 месяца назад +2

      @@eldebtor6973 Nah they're still there, literally just came from down there

  • @trojanhell7639
    @trojanhell7639 Месяц назад

    I like it …. Luxury the city up and fill it with beauty …. Give it class

  • @Mindyourbusiness0027
    @Mindyourbusiness0027 2 месяца назад +6

    Imagine Austin 20 years later

    • @Syvern.
      @Syvern. Месяц назад

      Probably will be a derelict old town burning down

    • @Mindyourbusiness0027
      @Mindyourbusiness0027 Месяц назад

      @@Syvern.I mean who knows btw

  • @yupyup4209
    @yupyup4209 Месяц назад +5

    If you actually go to Austin right now you will see homeless tent cities everywhere even along side nice suburbs. They had to go out of their way to not capture any of that in their shots for this video 😂

  • @DMagician6
    @DMagician6 2 месяца назад +4

    We need to terraform Austin again 😂😭😭

  • @ralphseewald4069
    @ralphseewald4069 2 месяца назад +12

    When I lived in Austin in the early 1980s there was a big campaign to preserve the state capital views

    • @azulaquaza4916
      @azulaquaza4916 2 месяца назад +1

      You can still see it from plenty of angles my guy. It’s literally the signature of congress avenue

    • @Yilver499
      @Yilver499 2 месяца назад +1

      It was part of the law until the law makers were incentivized $$$$$

    • @DioTheGreatOne
      @DioTheGreatOne 2 месяца назад +6

      ​​@@azulaquaza4916 Damn you replied to almost every single comment in this video. Why U so mad bro?

    • @SpongeBob5000_
      @SpongeBob5000_ 2 месяца назад

      @@azulaquaza4916You’re doing tricks on it

    • @divinecomedian2
      @divinecomedian2 Месяц назад +1

      Well, it was bound to get obscured. It ain't worth blocking high density buildings so we can see an old building where a bunch of crooks work.

  • @Tea4Texas
    @Tea4Texas 2 месяца назад +8

    Make Austin Normal!

  • @vishnuramia2140
    @vishnuramia2140 2 месяца назад

    Nice. Damn it’s changed a lot

  • @alexanderdelarge5103
    @alexanderdelarge5103 2 месяца назад +1

    Same thing happened to St. Petersburg in Florida.

  • @antonbonin5003
    @antonbonin5003 Месяц назад +1

    Still remember back in 2012 when I drove to Austin with a friend. Some homeless dude was trying to shake me down for $3 because that's how much a whopper costs, and he had to feed his kids. Not a kid in sight, not a McDonald's in sight, and after giving him $3, he remembered that they were actually $4...
    He was the "parking manager" of that area btw. That's why he was charging me the price of a whopper.
    I'm glad to say that moving back after 20 years, it's exactly the same. Except the homeless now have guns, and enough rights to execute people on the sidewalk without accountability.

  • @GueroMexicanGT
    @GueroMexicanGT Месяц назад +3

    Turned into another soulless metropolis 😒

  • @shaybapple
    @shaybapple Месяц назад +4

    Now people are leaving because its gotten too expensive

  • @FleagleSangria
    @FleagleSangria Месяц назад

    Lived there for a bit in the 80s. That was the time Austin was unique.

  • @maryanncastro6011
    @maryanncastro6011 Месяц назад

    And the Willie Nelson mural shows a Tesla truck driving by, that's another thing I now see almost every day in Austin. Moved here in 1989, seen these changes but this was amazing to watch. You can barely see the Capital.

  • @Mickey-iv6nf
    @Mickey-iv6nf Месяц назад +1

    1:48 cyber truck lol

  • @mrhoach2229
    @mrhoach2229 Месяц назад +2

    Welcome to anywhere USA.

  • @SkillardWillard-t4i
    @SkillardWillard-t4i Месяц назад +1

    Austinite born and raised. It’s not Austin anymore and hasn’t been for decades, it’s whatever these people who moved here have turned it into. Change is inevitable, all the original Austinites moved away. Time for me to move on as well. Good luck with this new Austin everyone. Genuinely.

  • @portcybertryx222
    @portcybertryx222 Месяц назад

    It’s nice to see the city moving forward with some unique architecture styles. Yes people in the comments feel nostalgic about the past. Come on change is a part of a city’s growth. We should be happy that the city is at least preserving certain landmarks and still has a character to it. Soon we will be nostalgic for what exists now.

    • @Semper_
      @Semper_ Месяц назад

      Idk how that architecture can be unique. It's all the same.
      People are voicing their grievances 'cause Austin is soulless now. Sure Austin has a bigger economy now, but at the cost of it's culture. It had a very unique vibrant culture, and now it's soulless and corporate. Not all progress is good progress

  • @12GAFL
    @12GAFL Месяц назад +2

    Slowly destroying itself. Thanks city “leaders”

  • @azulaquaza4916
    @azulaquaza4916 2 месяца назад +3

    As much as people complain about Austin not being like its old self well which is no duh since it’s a million person city now. Its downtown is one of the most healthy and walkable in the country and it puts education, health and parkland front and center unlike its parking lot covered siblings in Houston and Dallas

    • @mstyles2667
      @mstyles2667 Месяц назад +2

      So, it's just another generic looking mid sized city now. Lost it's uniqeness which was what made it what it was.

    • @azulaquaza4916
      @azulaquaza4916 Месяц назад +1

      @@mstyles2667 Wtf is this “uniqueness loss” you’re crying about?? Congress Avenue is still there, Lady bird lake is still there, Food scene is still there, Hill country is still there, Live music is still there, 6th street is still there, Rainey, SoCo, Ann Roy & Butler, Barton Creek, The Greenbelts, Hamilton pool, ACL & SXSW are STILL THERE. It still looks and feels a lot different from any other Texan city so no it has never lost its uniqueness, just has a bigger skyline.

    • @LuckyCharms777
      @LuckyCharms777 Месяц назад +1

      Austin’s downtown is only walkable for people who can afford to live there, and those people certainly aren’t native Austinite’s, or Texans for that matter. I used to live just north of campus and ride my bike across downtown for both work and play. I later had an apartment off the drag. There’s no way I’d be able to afford that now. Downtown Austin has become just another rich person’s playground.

    • @azulaquaza4916
      @azulaquaza4916 Месяц назад

      @@LuckyCharms777 Wanna know a hard truth? If Austin had cheap housing then it would attract cheap people and it wouldn’t look anywhere as nice as it does. Is it taking you long to figure this out?

    • @LuckyCharms777
      @LuckyCharms777 Месяц назад

      @@azulaquaza4916
      Wanna know a hard truth? Central Austin used to have reasonable housing costs and it attracted students, along with the lower/middle class. The cheap people stayed where the housing was more inexpensive.

  • @crypticmystic3489
    @crypticmystic3489 2 месяца назад +13

    All the shit does tend to pile up in one place…

  • @noodletribunal9793
    @noodletribunal9793 Месяц назад +2

    the skyline looks markedly worse. those new highrises look atrocious

  • @aaronseth
    @aaronseth 2 месяца назад +3

    they ruined Austin tbh 😢

  • @microbios8586
    @microbios8586 2 месяца назад +1

    Austin is so interesting. It's uniquely Texan yet nothing like Dallas and Houston. It's a western and hilly and close to the border but not like Laredo or San Antonio. It's a weird place.

  • @divinecomedian2
    @divinecomedian2 Месяц назад +10

    The saddest thing is how everyone is on their phone in 2024. I miss when people would actually look at you and smile on the sidewalk.

    • @misterb1132
      @misterb1132 Месяц назад +4

      Was born there, but went out in '95 for teaching interviews and scouting. Everyone was always so kind and polite, even on the phone long distance to southern Cal, that that made a huge impression on me. Never did move my young family back to my roots (parents graduated UT), but the days of almost everyone you pass walking saying hello are long gone with the phone-staring for sure.

    • @Sam_T2000
      @Sam_T2000 Месяц назад +1

      because you never look at your phone in public, right?

    • @BrilliantHandle
      @BrilliantHandle Месяц назад

      A lot of people are answering business emails, reading books, etc. they aren’t all just on Facebook getting angry over memes like you.

    • @Quicks1lvr
      @Quicks1lvr Месяц назад +2

      ​@@BrilliantHandleno they go on RUclips and try to convince strangers of something like you do

  • @juanzuniga7616
    @juanzuniga7616 2 месяца назад +5

    Basically another ruined city

  • @superslayerguy
    @superslayerguy Месяц назад +1

    Austin used to be actually weird. Now it’s just become corporate.

  • @westrim
    @westrim Месяц назад

    RUclips 'steps' in increments of 5 seconds. It would have been nice if this was timed for that to easily flip back and forth.

  • @thatguydylan314
    @thatguydylan314 Месяц назад

    1:46 GODDAMMIT I GOTTA GO CATCH MY FRIDGE

  • @Pepe1999
    @Pepe1999 2 месяца назад +4

    That lake is destroyed now 🤮🤢

  • @Technovore88
    @Technovore88 2 месяца назад +13

    What a shame!

    • @johnerwin9024
      @johnerwin9024 2 месяца назад +1

      Brings jobs but loses character like so many other cities. 👍👎

    • @381delirius
      @381delirius 2 месяца назад

      ​@@johnerwin9024it's more like character development.

  • @bigt4135
    @bigt4135 Месяц назад +2

    Looked better 20 years ago.

  • @theirishbandit7301
    @theirishbandit7301 Месяц назад

    The thing that did it for me is when they dismantled the original TCM house on quick hill back in 1998 and now the whole area is unrecognizable in 2024.

  • @xfloodcasual8124
    @xfloodcasual8124 Месяц назад

    Living through this was like being in a war, complete with PTSD.

  • @thetexanladd
    @thetexanladd 2 месяца назад +2

    It's interesting that Austin's downtown 2 decades ago was relatively modest, before exploding and pretty much becoming like Houston. Whether or not that's a good thing is none of my business.

    • @hdfjg
      @hdfjg 2 месяца назад +1

      very true! its the business for the city and new jobs.

    • @LuckyCharms777
      @LuckyCharms777 Месяц назад

      It’s a bad thing.

    • @thetexanladd
      @thetexanladd Месяц назад

      @@LuckyCharms777 Again, not my business, as I don't live there and, at this point, I'm now unlikely to move there.

    • @LuckyCharms777
      @LuckyCharms777 Месяц назад

      @@thetexanladd
      It is your business because if you live in Houston, you live in the rapidly growing Texas Triangle, which is going to change our communities forever. Dallas to San Antonio to Houston to Dallas is going to become just as congested and expensive as greater LA.

    • @thetexanladd
      @thetexanladd Месяц назад

      @@LuckyCharms777 I don't live in Houston, either. I'm in DFW.
      If there's really no where else left to go, then why should I bother? I'm done with this convo.

  • @MalleusSemperVictor
    @MalleusSemperVictor Месяц назад +8

    People will live in a sterile, corporate wasteland and exclaim that their metropolitan hellscape is better than other metropolitan hellscapes.

    • @BrilliantHandle
      @BrilliantHandle Месяц назад +1

      Have you seen metropolitan areas outside of the U.S.?

    • @meatballmeatwad5730
      @meatballmeatwad5730 Месяц назад +8

      I love how alot of the issues people are complaining about here are caused by capitalism and big monopolistic companies and old billionaires and oligarchs just following the market flow. But when you point it out, you get accused of being a gay communist from California.

    • @Solotocius
      @Solotocius Месяц назад

      You guys just love throwing those words around

  • @RealDavidN
    @RealDavidN Месяц назад +1

    People used to ask me how i enjoyed living in the austin area. After some thought, i responded “it’s great if you can get near it”.

  • @aliadam575
    @aliadam575 Месяц назад +1

    🇺🇸🍻✨️🍻🇺🇸 Ideal growth & development cheers 2 Austin down in the lone star state!.....

  • @oldschool9699
    @oldschool9699 Месяц назад

    Austin use to be such a beautiful town. USE TO!!!
    Austin, California

  • @lionlikemessenger
    @lionlikemessenger 2 месяца назад +9

    Is Nashville the next Austin?

  • @iLikeMyOwnPosts
    @iLikeMyOwnPosts Месяц назад +6

    It makes me want to puke. When I got here in 2013 the city was still amazing - but long time austinites told me I missed the golden years. I can only imagine how amazing those were.
    This new austin... it's terrible. The soul of Austin has been completely sucked out of it, and this is a corporate husk of what it once was. If you disagree - you're lying to yourself or ignorant of what it was before - just like I used to be. Seeing this happen to TWO different cities I've lived in now... it's disgusting. All for the almighty dollar. Nothing for the people.

    • @GueroMexicanGT
      @GueroMexicanGT Месяц назад

      “erm you just hate new things” 🤓

  • @UPguy2024
    @UPguy2024 Месяц назад +1

    I see a disgusting cybertruck on that thumbnail.

  • @Ben-0
    @Ben-0 Месяц назад

    Why is nobody talking about the cybertruck in the thumbnail?

  • @SizzleCorndog
    @SizzleCorndog Месяц назад

    I don’t even live in Austin but replacing an outdoor graffiti gallery with soulless condos makes me so fucking mad

  • @angelor9211
    @angelor9211 Месяц назад

    Am I the only one that gets depressed seeing all the nature and simple buildings be changed for modern stores and buildings?

  • @adityaganjoomech
    @adityaganjoomech Месяц назад

    But why? Hardly seven people live in the entire Texas

  • @RGE_Music
    @RGE_Music 2 месяца назад +4

    song name please and thank you

    • @02nupe
      @02nupe 2 месяца назад +1

      shazam it

    • @RGE_Music
      @RGE_Music 2 месяца назад +1

      @@02nupe i already did. Never gave me this exact song

    • @BrilliantHandle
      @BrilliantHandle Месяц назад

      @@RGE_Music”Wrightwood” - 5Alvo. Shazam works better if it is directly integrated in your computer’s internal audio.

  • @yungtitynac
    @yungtitynac Месяц назад +1

    now all Austin has to do is build more infill, narrow all of the roads into streets with 1 lane each direction, separated bike lanes, wide sidewalks, lower the speed limits, end suburbanization, build more mass transit. im sure theres more things but if austin can do any of these i think the city will only get better. it looked like a drab mess sea of parking years ago, what a garbage city. now its actually turning into something that is inhabitable for the masses. good job austin

  • @INDKFGC
    @INDKFGC 2 месяца назад +2

    The magic has been gone since 2011-ish?

  • @ToopidPonay
    @ToopidPonay Месяц назад

    I don’t like the Frost building being hidden. 🥺

  • @chase_modugno
    @chase_modugno Месяц назад

    Nice

  • @cameraman655
    @cameraman655 2 месяца назад +19

    Back when Austin was….TEXAN! Not the enclave of California that it has become…
    Make
    Austin
    Texan
    Again

    • @hadriangonzalez607
      @hadriangonzalez607 2 месяца назад +5

      Austin has always been weird and not Texan.. it's what makes Austin Austin. Keep crying about change.. you'll eventually realized the only constant in life is that it changes .

    • @LuckyCharms777
      @LuckyCharms777 Месяц назад

      @@hadriangonzalez607
      Except Austin isn’t weird anymore, it’s been corporatized. Go to Brownsville and spur change there. With a poverty rate of 22%, it certainly needs it more than Austin.

    • @hadriangonzalez607
      @hadriangonzalez607 Месяц назад

      @@LuckyCharms777 congratulations.. you've described the end goal of every city in America since the industrial revolution.

    • @LuckyCharms777
      @LuckyCharms777 Месяц назад

      @@hadriangonzalez607
      Nope, only mid-large cities. Plenty of cities are content with being “bedroom communities”.

    • @hadriangonzalez607
      @hadriangonzalez607 Месяц назад

      @@LuckyCharms777 yes I'm sure their chamber of commerce are thrilled at the idea of not increasing their cities revenue.

  • @j.p.1967
    @j.p.1967 Месяц назад +1

    Blame it on Joe Rogan

  • @chrisdacey6586
    @chrisdacey6586 Месяц назад

    Cybertruck in thumbnail

  • @mexidraw
    @mexidraw Месяц назад

    Oh, wow

  • @liamcoolcool
    @liamcoolcool Месяц назад +1

    they're finally trying to fix it