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Old 07-01-2017, 03:28 PM
 
Location: Austin TX
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Well, a Texan needs a qualifier for Paris.
ROFL. My grandfather was born and raised in Paris.

It seemed so exotic ... until my first visit there.
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Old 07-01-2017, 04:17 PM
 
Location: Austin, TX
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Friend: My parents have a cabin in Geneva.
Me: WTHECK are you doing living HERE?????
Friend: Geneva, TX
ME: oh nvmd, please proceed with your life
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Old 07-01-2017, 04:31 PM
 
Location: Avery Ranch, Austin, TX
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And Santa Fe. When I first met my (now) sister-in-law, and she told me she was from Santa Fe, I assumed it was New Mexico. It took a while before I realized it was Santa Fe, TX.
A few years ago, when darned near every airport NOT in Austin was closed for weather, DW and SIL were trying to make their flights to Ecuador. DW asked ME to try to find SOMEthing that would get them out of here(Dallas, Houston, Atlanta were all closed or seriously delayed).

I found one route that would at least get them in the right direction...until I realized it required a layover in San Jose !!! I thought, "San Jose??? They're trying to get to South America!!!" Silly me(who had NOT spent 18 years working for Delta Air Lines) didn't realize that it made perfect sense to lay over in San Jose, COSTA RICA !!! They got there around midnight, caught a cab to the hotel on top of a beautiful mountain, had a lovely breakfast watching the sun rise...then caught a morning flight to Quito!
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Old 07-02-2017, 01:00 AM
 
Location: 78745
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Austin, Indiana was named after Austin, Texas.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austin...na?wprov=sfla1
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Old 07-02-2017, 04:53 PM
 
Location: Avery Ranch, Austin, TX
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Austin, Indiana was named after Austin, Texas.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austin...na?wprov=sfla1

Well, I was named after Austin, Indiana!!! About 100 years AFTER !

-10 points for using Wiki
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Old 07-09-2017, 07:06 AM
 
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When will we go from being Austin, TX to being Austin?
Austin, TX >> Austin >> ATX
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Old 07-09-2017, 11:04 AM
 
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I love Austin but don't love all of Texas. I'm native Texan so I can certainly say that! But so can everyone else for that matter. Austin (and other big cities here) are different than other parts of TX, thank goodness for that. Most people I come across know what I'm talking about when I say "Austin"
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Old 07-10-2017, 08:29 PM
 
Location: C.R. K-T
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And Santa Fe. When I first met my (now) sister-in-law, and she told me she was from Santa Fe, I assumed it was New Mexico. It took a while before I realized it was Santa Fe, TX.
Gotta love Galveston (and Houston)!
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Old 07-11-2017, 06:50 AM
 
Location: Central Texas
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If people "love" austin, but do not love texas, then they dont belong here.
This, exactly. There's this delusion among those who don't know any better that Austin is somehow not Texas (and they have a similar delusion about what the rest of Texas, all 268,597 miles and 26,000,000 people and counting of it, is like) and that Austin is somehow "better" than the rest of Texas. Idjits.
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Old 07-17-2017, 12:27 PM
 
Location: Austin, TX
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I just say "Austin" and everyone knows which one. We are now the 11th largest city in the country; people have heard of us. Nobody says "Houston, TX" or "Dallas, TX"... the first guess is probably the correct one.
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