What’s up with Austin?

Re:What’s up with Austin? by sithadmin on Friday June 24, 2022 @09:29AM (#31861476)

Strongly agree with all of your arguments. Watched the city transform radically between ~2007 and ~2014, and not really for the better. Most notably, the city and surrounding suburbs did not prepare for nor manage the tech-driven population boom whatsoever.

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Re:What’s up with Austin? by drchopchop on Friday June 24, 2022 @09:44AM (#31861681)

Same, lived there in the early 2000's, and coming back recently it's almost unrecognizable. The music scene is largely gone, tech bros everywhere, the traffic is even worse than it was before, housing is ridiculous. The "Keep Austin Weird" charm, which used to be real, is now a faded memory that's packaged up to sell at the airport gift shop.

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Re:What’s up with Austin? by dvtrn on Friday June 24, 2022 @09:36AM (#31861579)

They did it to themselves. It’s one of the leading reasons I left the region after grad school for the ancestral planes of my parents: Suburban Illinois, heh.

https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/boomtown-yesterday-d...

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Re:What’s up with Austin? by enraged_camel on Friday June 24, 2022 @09:49AM (#31861781)

A lot of people tried, but got blocked by NIMBYs.

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