Anyone move to Austin....and hate it? (Dallas, Portland: apartment complex, rooftop)

[TexasGirl@Heart]

Originally Posted by twange

Spot on.

It's funny you referenced Cash/Haggard. I grew up on that stuff(my mom liked them) and that's the sort of country that I've always liked. White Blues. Songs as troubled and flawed as their writers!

99% of the musicians in all genres that write, arrange, produce, record, engineer, perform, tour, conduct and teach...are anonymous to the mainstream public. But they often make great livings, are admired by their peers and range from below average to legendary status. I consider it a blessing to have so much music here on the human scale - by that, I mean small venues, where you're much closer to the music.

Nashville has that stuff too, but it's an industry town, so most of the publicity it gets is geared towards the big and well-known. Austin has a grittier and more authentic music personality, that I think is really great!

Twange, you would LOVE Dale Watson then...check him out on a Monday night at the Continental Club! Tell him Shelly from Pittsburgh sent you! He knows me! He writes all his own stuff. If Haggard and Jones procreated, the end result would be Dale!

I like that you consider Austin a blessing in terms of music. So many take Austin for granted. When people write on these boards about "where's the music? I thought this was the live music capitol of the world" ...it makes me wonder where in the heck are they at in Austin. Like another poster said..."You can't swing a dead cat without hitting a talented musician in Austin". That is the ultimate truth.

And I love that you "get it" re: the grittier music personality of Austin! You got reps for that one!

[love roses]

I think I need to find a babysitter and go hear some Dale

[scongress1234]

I LOVE this post! Such a popper of hype and bombast!
Confucius say: If 800,000 people SAY that a city is the best, it surely must be!
Confucius also say: If enough marketing-based top 10 lists lobbied by Austin's chamber of commerce say that Austin is best, and 150,000 new residents that religiously follow those lists like lemmings move there, AND say Austin is the bestest in unison, it MUST be so!

[TexasGirl@Heart]

Originally Posted by love roses

I think I need to find a babysitter and go hear some Dale

ooohhh...can I come with you? Have you ever heard him before? Tell him Shelly said "Hi"!

[TexasGirl@Heart]

Originally Posted by scongress1234

I LOVE this post! Such a popper of hype and bombast!
Confucius say: If 800,000 people SAY that a city is the best, it surely must be!
Confucius also say: If enough marketing-based top 10 lists lobbied by Austin's chamber of commerce say that Austin is best, and 150,000 new residents that religiously follow those lists like lemmings move there, AND say Austin is the bestest in unison, it MUST be so!

Confucius say: Get a life I'm not baseing anything I know about Austin on some list on the internet. I KNOW from first hand experience Been coming to Austin for the better part of a decade, sometimes 2-3 times per year!

[TexasHorseLady]

And I've been living here since about 1969. Now, grant you, I did come here because two separate sets of people (one single guy, one couple, neither of who knew each other) told me some neat things about it, and because of the university, of course, but the city sold me on it itself.

[TexasGirl@Heart]

Originally Posted by TexasHorseLady

And I've been living here since about 1969. Now, grant you, I did come here because two separate sets of people (one single guy, one couple, neither of who knew each other) told me some neat things about it, and because of the university, of course, but the city sold me on it itself.

Exactly! The first time I stepped foot in Austin was on my way through to San Antonio and fell in love with the city way back in 1994! Never heard a thing about Austin until I visited. I didn't return until 1999 (5 years later) for a much more in depth visit and have been coming annually ever since. The city also sold me on itself....not some list or Austin's COC!!

[scongress1234]

Originally Posted by austinjennifer

I am surprised to see all the negative comments about Austin. Everyone I know loves it here and wouldn't imagine ever leaving. It is a favorite city of many Texans. You have the advantages of a city (high property values, job opportunities, good schools, shopping, concerts, activities), but the beauty of the hill country is all around you. And you can't beat spending a day on Lake Travis. The neighborhoods and people of North Austin are very different from South Austin, so make sure you understand the differences before you move here. There are many liberals in Austin, so if you share those views you will love it. If you don't (and you are like me), you just learn to tolerate them. My only real complaint is that it is a sanctuary city.

Funny, because south Austin was "bubbaville", a redneck, trailer-court haven till the late 80's....the one next to shady grove is one of the last ones left. People wouldn't be caught dead south of DT if they had bucks, and there were winos, hookers, and bums all over. Then, Austin popped up on top 10 lists, which were lobbied and created by the Austin Chamber of Commerce,the techies and middle-class californians priced out of housing, and others displaced from THEIR local job market discovered Austin from those same top 10 lists and websites like City-Data, and a 10 year wave of hype was born!

[scongress1234]

Harlan Sanders sez:

Austin is "finger lickin' good!"

http://www.biography.com/images/database_images/19172.a.jpg (broken link)

And they hype their city better than I could ever hype my chicken......

[TexasGirl@Heart]

Originally Posted by scongress1234

Funny, because south Austin was "bubbaville", a redneck, trailer-court haven till the late 80's....the one next to shady grove is one of the last ones left. People wouldn't be caught dead south of DT if they had bucks, and there were winos, hookers, and bums all over. Then, Austin popped up on top 10 lists, which were lobbied and created by the Austin Chamber of Commerce,the techies and middle-class californians priced out of housing, and others displaced from THEIR local job market discovered Austin from those same yop 10 lists and websites like City-Data, and a 10 year wave of hype was born!

Get over yourself, PLEASE! I didn't know ONE thing about Austin on my first visit...never heard of them being on some "top 10 list" back in 1994, even if they were.