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Re:Silicon Valley Is Flooding into a Reluctant Austin by ghaff on Sunday April 11, 2021 @07:41PM (#26774613)
Not sure why Reno as opposed to Las Vegas. Reno's closer to Tahoe but Vegas is closer to a bunch of recreational areas. Neither city has a real downtown in the sense that SF or Austin do as far as I've ever seen. So you're almost definitely living in essentially car-dependent suburbs if that's an issue. (Though you often are in either SV or Austin anyway.)
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Re:Silicon Valley Is Flooding into a Reluctant Austin by jasonladuke0311 on Sunday April 11, 2021 @08:20PM (#26774847)
Vegas is a miserable inferno six months out of the year. There is no spring or fall to speak of, though winters are really mild. Education is terrible. Everything is urban sprawl garbage construction. I lived there for 35 years until moving to Denver this winter. You couldn’t move me back to Vegas at gunpoint.
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Re:Silicon Valley Is Flooding into a Reluctant Austin by mint2 on Monday April 12, 2021 @04:09PM (#26784517)
And this comment is why CA’s housing crisis is impossible to fix. There is no easy solution.

The main solution people propose, building more, has a very high likelihood of turning it into a suburban hellscape that people refuse to move to even at gunpoint.

We have plenty of places like that. If the option is just build more without an extremely careful plan, then just move to another city where it’s like that already. Phoenix is a nice sprawl.

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Re:Silicon Valley Is Flooding into a Reluctant Austin by ghaff on Sunday April 11, 2021 @08:34PM (#26774952)
But is Reno any better?
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Re:Silicon Valley Is Flooding into a Reluctant Austin by AnimalMuppet on Sunday April 11, 2021 @08:55PM (#26775084)
Pretty sure the summers aren't as bad as Las Vegas. I can't answer for any of the other issues.
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Re:Silicon Valley Is Flooding into a Reluctant Austin by Miserlou57 on Sunday April 11, 2021 @09:18PM (#26775223)
Reno gets hot but nowhere near as bad for as long
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