I tell people that Friday rush hour starts at 3:30 on Thursday afternoon. Back in the 1980s a friend with some other friends and a couple of actors from the Doctor Who program went out and the British men taught them how to play cricket at the Triangle where Lamar and Guadalupe meet. I remember when the community gardens was where the Winter's Center is in the same area. I was driving before they cut Shoal Creek Blvd past Anderson Lane. Before the Pickle campus was so named. When IBM was built out on 1325 which is now more Burnet Rd. and there was a Travis County school there at the corner of Kramer and 1325. Before they cut Braker past Lamar. I had a friend who said I had the interesting dichotomy of being a Damned Yankee and Old Austin.
I would move back to Austin, but even If I paid 600k for an average Austin home, the property taxes and untility costs are insane, Austin really has to get control of this .
Yup, sucks here, and it's not getting better, gentrification, rising costs, a lack of respect for the cultures that were already here. Same beat of drum, from a different culture of people that has a history of doing this.
I've lived in Austin since 2003. I settled into South Austin for a time but was in a cycle of renting and unable to keep up with it even though my wages rose. With the crazy home prize explosion and slight adjustment this year (2023), I decided to settle into a home just outside of Austin but within a half hour of downtown.
I was in austin twentyfour hrs, the humidity ran me out. Dallas is an oven and concrete jungle. San antonio is now too expensive and the freeway is a mess. My $100k home now over 300k with 3% prop tx. Sorry i sold in 2008 for $130k a 2500 sq ft home. 6 yrs old.
I lived in Austin in the 70s. Even then Kinky Friedman was complaining that the town was ruined, as he cruised down 6th St in the Yom Kippur Clipper with the Longhorns out on the end of the hood. Boy howdy, look at it now.
still drawing parallels with NOLA on the California front. Yep: I call it CaliforNola. But then they leave after a few years b/c it rains, because it's not Cali lol They DID kill any affordable housing here, which kills our local community and culture. So far it seems we have similar everything, except NOLA is broke and falling apart.
WARNING: You want to live somewhere that’s thriving when things go down you want a functioning area to live in. And about people leaving: sure, if you moved to Austin out in creepy areas not IN Austin. It’s hard if you want a big house, but I live in Austin and it’s the best. I wouldn’t live anywhere except in Austin in the actual city. I’m on a quiet street but I am in walking distance to everything! and I just love the vibe here. You can be a Republican in Texas a Democrat here too. It’s the best when it’s mixed. Do you want to laugh about things and stop being so freaked out and polarize there’s a lot of comedians here that will help you.
summers in the future will be the same, global warming is hitting TX hard, the heat damages car batteries, electronics, foundations due to drought, and your skin -- not good
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I tell people that Friday rush hour starts at 3:30 on Thursday afternoon. Back in the 1980s a friend with some other friends and a couple of actors from the Doctor Who program went out and the British men taught them how to play cricket at the Triangle where Lamar and Guadalupe meet. I remember when the community gardens was where the Winter's Center is in the same area. I was driving before they cut Shoal Creek Blvd past Anderson Lane. Before the Pickle campus was so named. When IBM was built out on 1325 which is now more Burnet Rd. and there was a Travis County school there at the corner of Kramer and 1325. Before they cut Braker past Lamar. I had a friend who said I had the interesting dichotomy of being a Damned Yankee and Old Austin.
traffic, crime, lack of affordable housing, homeless pop., bad city govt., lower than avg. salaries even in profess. fields
I would move back to Austin, but even If I paid 600k for an average Austin home, the property taxes and untility costs are insane, Austin really has to get control of this .
Yup, sucks here, and it's not getting better, gentrification, rising costs, a lack of respect for the cultures that were already here. Same beat of drum, from a different culture of people that has a history of doing this.
I've lived in Austin since 2003. I settled into South Austin for a time but was in a cycle of renting and unable to keep up with it even though my wages rose. With the crazy home prize explosion and slight adjustment this year (2023), I decided to settle into a home just outside of Austin but within a half hour of downtown.
I was in austin twentyfour hrs, the humidity ran me out. Dallas is an oven and concrete jungle. San antonio is now too expensive and the freeway is a mess. My $100k home now over 300k with 3% prop tx. Sorry i sold in 2008 for $130k a 2500 sq ft home. 6 yrs old.
Great review!
I lived in Austin in the 70s. Even then Kinky Friedman was complaining that the town was ruined, as he cruised down 6th St in the Yom Kippur Clipper with the Longhorns out on the end of the hood.
Boy howdy, look at it now.
so far, after two items it sounds like here in NOLA lol ;-)
still drawing parallels with NOLA on the California front. Yep: I call it CaliforNola. But then they leave after a few years b/c it rains, because it's not Cali lol They DID kill any affordable housing here, which kills our local community and culture. So far it seems we have similar everything, except NOLA is broke and falling apart.
For those who live in São Paulo, Austin is a paradise! Wait for me.
WARNING: You want to live somewhere that’s thriving when things go down you want a functioning area to live in. And about people leaving: sure, if you moved to Austin out in creepy areas not IN Austin. It’s hard if you want a big house, but I live in Austin and it’s the best. I wouldn’t live anywhere except in Austin in the actual city. I’m on a quiet street but I am in walking distance to everything! and I just love the vibe here. You can be a Republican in Texas a Democrat here too. It’s the best when it’s mixed. Do you want to laugh about things and stop being so freaked out and polarize there’s a lot of comedians here that will help you.
What about Dallas?
I'm a cook at Golden Corral in Austin, 98% of the cooks don't know English! lol
Austin just ain't the same without the Armadillo.
most panhandlers are from elsewhere, they can be removed
summers in the future will be the same, global warming is hitting TX hard, the heat damages car batteries, electronics, foundations due to drought, and your skin -- not good