Why I'm leaving Austin: An 8th Generation Austinite's observations (Houston: neighborhood, live)

[EzPeterson]

Yeah. It's so busy nobody goes there anymore.

[TexasHorseLady]

Originally Posted by Austinite101

All I keep seeing is people complaining about the "crowds". Oh the big bad crowds. If one does not like being near a lot of people, one should refrain from moving to a city.

And I didn't move to a city. Unfortunately, enough people who wanted to live in a city moved to where I lived and turned it into what they wanted, not what the people already living here (with some exceptions) wanted. So your argument doesn't fly.

[Cathy4017]

Originally Posted by TexasHorseLady

And I didn't move to a city. Unfortunately, enough people who wanted to live in a city moved to where I lived and turned it into what they wanted, not what the people already living here (with some exceptions) wanted. So your argument doesn't fly.

Yep. When Sis moved back to the Austin area over 30 years ago, she was out in a bedroom community south of Austin (Kyle-Wimberley-Buda-Mountain City.

I visit by car every so often, and I barely recognized the subdivision when I was last there in 2007 because it just grows like a weed between visits.

I missed the turnoff, and had to backtrack to find it in the mess. Forget about getting in and out of the development during either rush hour. Everything in the area is just running together these days.

She doesn't think it's so wonderful with the wall-to-wall people now.

Neither does this small-town desert rat....

[Komeht]

Originally Posted by TexasHorseLady

And I didn't move to a city. Unfortunately, enough people who wanted to live in a city moved to where I lived and turned it into what they wanted, not what the people already living here (with some exceptions) wanted. So your argument doesn't fly.

Love the revisionist history.

Austin was a thriving metropolis with a great downtown back when they built the Diskill and Paramount, etc.

Then the boomers nearly killed it and did everything in their power to turn Austin into Houston. Now downtown Austin has been rescued from neglect and tragic misallocatin of resources. Most of those bitter boomers have moved out to some far flung suburb but still ruminate about how great Austin was back in the day...the ones who stayed get it and love it.

The people who truly love Austin live in Austin. I have little time, patience and no respect for the generation who created the horrific sprawl that now surrounds and chokes the city and then bitterly talks about how no one goes down town anymore because its too crowded.

You want to know Austin's history..look at the Driskill. Built in a time where Austin was thriving, neglected by the so called greatest generation and left to decay and rot by the boomers in the 1970s - early 1990s while they built their McMansions in the suburbs. it was rediscovered and revitalized by a new generation who rejects the dementia that gripped the country that is finally slipping away.

[EzPeterson]

Originally Posted by Komeht

Love the revisionist history.

Austin was a thriving metropolis with a great downtown back when they built the Diskill and Paramount, etc.

Then the boomers nearly killed it and did everything in their power to turn Austin into Houston. Now downtown Austin has been rescued for neglect and tragic misallocatin of resources. Most of those bitter boomers have moved out to some far flung suburb but still ruminate about how great Austin was back in the day...

The people who truly love Austin live in Austin. I have little time, patience and no respect for the generation who created the horrific sprawl that now surrounds and chokes the city and then bitterly talks about how no one goes down town anymore because its too crowded.

The whole downtown piece of that is true. DT Austin and the surrounding area is light years cooler, more diverse and attractive for multiple age groups/desires than it ever has been.

That said,
The whole deriding people for an address thing is so elitist and tired. I mean, you couldn't even step up to the task of identifying properties inside or outside of your narrow reality. Perhaps because not all that is "Austin" resides, grows or is present within those myopic walls?

[Komeht]

Originally Posted by EzPeterson

The whole downtown piece of that is true. DT Austin and the surrounding area is light years cooler, more diverse and attractive for multiple age groups/desires than it ever has been.

That said,
The whole deriding people for an address thing is so elitist and tired. I mean, you couldn't even step up to the task of identifying properties inside or outside of your narrow reality. Perhaps because not all that is "Austin" resides, grows or is present within those myopic walls?

Living in central Texas=\=living in Austin. I get tired of hearing crap from denizens of Cedar Park and Georgetown, Hutto and Buda talk about how crowded Austin is (no one goes there anymore).

[EzPeterson]

Obviously, you don't know your Yogi Berra. It was a joke.

Central Austin is really far from crowded in the grand sceme of things. Can you drive in, park in front of wherever and just roll in? No, you take a cab or the lightrail or bike so you can knock back a few and not worry.

[Komeht]

Originally Posted by EzPeterson

Obviously, you don't know your Yogi Berra. It was a joke.

Central Austin is really far from crowded in the grand sceme of things. Can you drive in, park in front of wherever and just roll in? No, you take a cab or the lightrail or bike so you can knock back a few and not worry.

1. Uh, read me again, obviously I'm in on the joke.

2. What light rail? Ou mean the commuter diesel to Leander??? That's not light rail.

3. Anyway, I'm of the opinion Austin is to nearly crowded enough. As for parking, that is a complete joke. As long as people don't mind pulling into a garage and paying a few bucks there is ample parking for everyone. The days of having free street parking available to all are gone and good riddance. Surface parking lots and plethora of street parking coincided with few businesses and no life.

[EzPeterson]

Originally Posted by Komeht

What light rail?

Anyway, I'm of the opinion Austin is to nearly crowded enough. As for parking, that is a complete joke. As long as people don't mind pulling into a garage and paying a few bucks there is ample parking for everyone. The days of having free street parking available to all are gone and good riddance. Surface parking lots and plethora of street parking coincided with few businesses and no life.

The weak excuse for lightrail we have does drop you at the convention center. From there, you can walk or pedicab it to your destination.

[Komeht]

Originally Posted by EzPeterson

The weak excuse for lightrail we have does drop you at the convention center. From there, you can walk or pedicab it to your destination.

That's not light rail. That is heavy track diesel.