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Old 09-05-2013, 09:59 AM
 
Location: Austin, TX
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Now I know you don't stray from Austin much. Those place suck!

This is your opinion and I trust my own taste buds more than I trust what stupid texas monthly says

No I haven't eaten there but that doesn't mean the downtown food trucks are over saturating and not all that great.
Such informed and fact based statements. So researched and thorough... The others, too, but these are just classic!
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Old 09-05-2013, 10:16 AM
 
Location: The People's Republic of Austin
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Such informed and fact based statements. So researched and thorough... The others, too, but these are just classic!
This is the one I loved:

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Thai - about as dumb as the Mexican comment. I've eaten all over Thailand - from street hawkers in Bangkok, to waterside fish places in Hat Yai and Koh Samui to mom and pop's in the Northeast. Som's/Madame Mam's is as good. Haven't been to Sway yet, but hear mixed reviews. Again you really need to get to NY or Baltimore or DC or Philly or Northern Va. or NJ or California. Please travel so that you can back up your sad statements.
Travel? You mean to, like actually Thailand? Which couldn't possibly be a better standard for Thai food than New Jersey. How arrogant of me to believe that.

Another entry for the ignore list.
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Old 09-05-2013, 11:54 AM
 
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Worst: traffic. Hands down.
Second worst: crowded everywhere with trustafarian grackles.
Third worst: huge competition for relatively low-paid jobs.
Best: food. Cheap and good food, which is the silver lining of "third worst."
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Old 09-05-2013, 12:26 PM
 
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This is the one I loved:



Travel? You mean to, like actually Thailand? Which couldn't possibly be a better standard for Thai food than New Jersey. How arrogant of me to believe that.

Another entry for the ignore list.

You probably think the seafood is good here too.
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Old 09-05-2013, 12:53 PM
 
Location: Austin, TX
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You probably think the seafood is good here too.
Please stop arguing.

I ran by your past posts was floored by all the arguments and "idiot" judgments you've called other City-Data posters.

The Austin forum really doesn't need more posters who are argumentative and are judgmental for simply the sake of being so. Let's play nice, listen and learn!
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Old 09-05-2013, 12:54 PM
 
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Please stop arguing.

I ran by your past posts was floored by all the arguments and "idiot" judgments you've called other City-Data posters.

The Austin forum really doesn't need more posters who are argumentative and are judgmental for simply the sake of being so. Let's play nice, listen and learn!

no. I am right.

Last edited by fortwashingtonkid; 09-05-2013 at 01:06 PM..
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Old 09-05-2013, 01:30 PM
 
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Third worst: huge competition for relatively low-paid jobs.


Oh, god. I totally forgot about that one. Yeah, it's amazing how many applicants my former office got for a $9/hr. administrative job. Something like 2,000? Of course, this was at the height of the recession, but from what I hear in my current HR, it's about that competitive, at least in education.
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Old 09-06-2013, 10:55 AM
 
Location: San Antonio, TX
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Austin GMA population:

250,000 in 1970
1,250,000 in 2010

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Old 09-07-2013, 01:23 PM
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Location: Cedar Park
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The vast hoards of mostly liberal college students who help vote in all kinds of bond issues and other feel good and costly nonsense that raises all of our property taxes, only to leave town after they graduate and stick us with the higher taxes, as the new students move in and whine about how expensive it is to live here.
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Old 09-07-2013, 01:33 PM
 
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The vast hoards of mostly liberal college students who help vote in all kinds of bond issues and other feel good and costly nonsense that raises all of our property taxes, only to leave town after they graduate and stick us with the higher taxes, as the new students move in and whine about how expensive it is to live here.
Clue: Those liberal college students aren't just the ones voting in higher property taxes. It's the new folks who come to town armed with masses of cash to fritter away who vote on this stuff. I would love to own property (again), but I just can't justify it, given the extraordinarily high tax rate. Anyone who comes here and thinks they're saving money on real property has to be smoking crack. (I'm an Independent, BTW.)

If you want Austin's cost of living to remain within the realm of remotely reasonable, you need to vote. And that goes for ALL of us who live here.
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