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Old 12-08-2020, 05:14 PM
 
Location: Round Rock, Texas
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Downtown Austin wasn't like that 5 years ago, it was a model to the rest of the U.S. showing how nice and clean a city could look. The graffiti and garbage have become especially bad over the last 2 years.
I've worked downtown ever since i first set foot in Texas almost 17 years ago. No way would I call downtown "nice and clean"... I worked at 6th and congress 2014-2018 and boy was that area a dump...drug addicts galore, overflowing trashcans, remnants of the previous night's drunks.

Now I'm around the area by the power plant...which looked much better...for a time, but then came the homeless people, dog crap on sidewalks, litter... the worst offenders are those people in the 360 condos and the apartments nearby, allowing their dogs to crap all over the place and aren't inclined to pick it up. Haven't set foot on the trail in years, but when I did it was nice. guess that's gone downhill too.

oh well, that's urbanity for you. nice to visit for entertainment or hang out for happy hour, and then you go home.
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Old 12-10-2020, 05:24 PM
 
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The best thing about the pandemic is that a significant number of downtown office workers (techies like me anyway) will not be returning to our offices, not anytime soon and in many cases not ever. WFH and flexible work options will be the new normal.

I don't miss the office and I sure don't miss the drive. A nice side effect is that the traffic in Austin is noticeably better as well!
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Old 12-13-2020, 01:12 PM
 
Location: Central Texas
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The towers represent economic prosperity, and an alternative to sprawl. Yes, I am pleased with that.

- Austinite since 2005

In other words, you're part of the problem. Desperately wanting to turn Austin into AnyCity, USA, rather than moving to one of those cities you so crave. One wonders why that might be? (Yes, feeling particularly cranky today.)
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Old 12-13-2020, 01:16 PM
 
Location: Central Texas
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I've worked downtown ever since i first set foot in Texas almost 17 years ago. No way would I call downtown "nice and clean"... I worked at 6th and congress 2014-2018 and boy was that area a dump...drug addicts galore, overflowing trashcans, remnants of the previous night's drunks.

Now I'm around the area by the power plant...which looked much better...for a time, but then came the homeless people, dog crap on sidewalks, litter... the worst offenders are those people in the 360 condos and the apartments nearby, allowing their dogs to crap all over the place and aren't inclined to pick it up. Haven't set foot on the trail in years, but when I did it was nice. guess that's gone downhill too.

oh well, that's urbanity for you. nice to visit for entertainment or hang out for happy hour, and then you go home.

yeah, it stopped being "nice and clean" about the time all the skyscrapers started popping up like mushrooms and people stopped wanting to go down there because it's such a mess in a variety of ways all of which seem to be tied together. Ask you said, that's urbanity for you. Except that we don't go down there unless we absolutely have to, not even for entertainment - much better places for that now even though we used to go there all the time.
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Old 12-13-2020, 01:19 PM
 
Location: Dallas
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The towers represent economic prosperity, and an alternative to sprawl. Yes, I am pleased with that.
Another view is that sprawl represents a wonderful alternative to towers.
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Old 12-13-2020, 01:21 PM
 
Location: Dallas
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oh well, that's urbanity for you. nice to visit for entertainment or hang out for happy hour, and then you go home.
We just don't go. There are plenty of places in the suburbs for happy hour, etc.
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