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laughs....I'll leave it to your imagination.
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They don't even appear on my radar for "good coffee." (Neither does Starbucks for that matter.) They've gotten too big and lost control of the quality. Maybe the original in SF was good, but the ones in Seattle stink. (Course, we got Vivace, Zeitgeist...etc etc basically the motherlode of good coffee) |
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Dude...now you're bumming ME out! I love San Francisco, and that picture is so very, very wrong.
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LOL! Yes, it is pretty lame(I'm wearng a third world t-shirt from the GAP right now and I'm feeling like a hypocrite ). But stay strong, SF is still awesome. Just like NYC, the bohemian areas have just moved somewhere else but they're still there. I know they are in Austin as well. |
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I'm not convinced that Austin's underground cultural scene is unique or strong enough to survive. It could very well get stronger and bigger, but I could just as easily envision it being drowned in a sea of immigrants seeking a nice city and a mainstream lifestyle. I suspect that there will always be a strong music scene and a progressive attitude at the core of Austin, but as far as being cutting edge or a bastion of creativity on the fringes, I'm not so sure... |
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![]() It's a never-ending problem like so many others in life. Our existence is a result of contradictions and polarities. Light and dark are inseparable. Birth causes death. There is no "up" without "down." And there's no wonderful place for starving artists that doesn't get destroyed by the very people who love to be around starving artists. It's just a process and it's neither good nor bad. It's life, and life leads to death. So if death is bad, then surely life must also be. |
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![]() We'll have to move back to the Rust Belt...which will remain "affordable" for the forseeable future ![]() |
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For the brave, there is always a place in larger cities to pioneer. Just be prepared to be accused of gentrification. People love to cling to their ghettos and hate when newcomers fix up an old crack house. All over east Austin I see the spray-painted words "Yuppies out of East Austin", usually on stop signs. |
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As soon as I started investigating Austin, it was the East that caught my eye(even though relatives in Austin have been heavily discouraging that idea). As I started researching, I found a lot of articles about the backlash going on there. Sounds like the old "equal but separate" dialogue of the early 60s. The neighborhoods like your money but they don't want you to live there. People living there for generations suddenly can't afford the taxes, have to leave and next thing you know whatever character was there is gone. It's a very complex thing and I certainly don't have the answers. Check out this link:http://www.goodlifemag.com/archives/...11-04_east.htm |
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