Everyone Moving from Ohio and Georgia to Texas?? (Austin, El Paso: live, shop)

[Spade]

Originally Posted by Canine*Castle

That is such a inane statement.

Texans can be very provincial people at times which leads to people being annoyed with them. Austin is growing and people need to get over it. If people want to go to small town, go to Fredericksburg or something. But Austin is no longer the city that some people identified with in the 1970s anymore. It's time for people like AustinTexan to get over it.

To all Ohioans, Georgians, Californians, New Yorkers, Illinoisians, Michiganders, Pennsylvanians, and other Southerners, WELCOME TO TEXAS and I hope you all keep coming.

[TexasGirl@Heart]

Originally Posted by love roses

I have to defend TGH. I'd much rather see jobs go to transplants who are legal, hardworking American citizens no matter their heritage than to Illegals being hired by companies who are just looking at hiring people for next to nothing just so they can take more money home and in the process abuse the illegal as well..ie, don't offer benefits, pay under the table, no workers comp and on and on.

Thanks LR--tried to rep you, but I couldn't because I just did yesterday!

[TexasGirl@Heart]

Originally Posted by Spade

Texans can be very provincial people at times which leads to people being annoyed with them. Austin is growing and people need to get over it. If people want to go to small town, go to Fredericksburg or something. But Austin is no longer the city that some people identified with in the 1970s anymore. It's time for people like AustinTexan to get over it.

To all Ohioans, Georgians, Californians, New Yorkers, Illinoisians, Michiganders, Pennsylvanians, and other Southerners, WELCOME TO TEXAS and I hope you all keep coming.

Thanks Spade!

[bellasofia]

You shouldn't be so quick to crucify people coming to live in Austin. Some of us are business owners looking to relocate our businesses there. Which means this would help the economy and we would be hiring people. I don't think that sounds bad.

Originally Posted by AustinTexan

So you're an ex-Austinite? Figures. You have no clue what all this migration here is really doing to our city. You think it's good for our kids to be in overcrowded classrooms? Why don't you talk to some real native Austinites and see what they think about all this growth? Our hill country is being torn down and replaced with condos, strip malls, and shopping centers, and it's malarkey? Our downtown is being built up with high rise condos that ruined the landscape of cities like Miami, and it's malarkey? It sounds like you need a wake up call. Next time you're jobless and are competing with 50 other people from out of state for the same position, stop and think about this "malarkey" we discussed because I know several people who can't even land a teaching position and are competing with all these transplants coming here for the few openings available. When our kids graduate high school and are looking to attend a state college or university, guess what? They'll be competing with all these transplants for a spot at those schools as well.

Steady population growth is healthy and good for a lot of reasons.....population booms like what we're seeing in Austin and around Texas is NOT GOOD!! Look what it did to California. California is an overcrowded, overpriced, dump. Period. Those same people who made California the dump it is today are now headed to Texas to do the same. Not only that, but all their cousins, friends, and family from up North are joining in. As much as people use to hate on Texas in years past, those same people sure can't get here fast enough. Texas has now become the "in thing, the place to live" and everyone wants their piece of the pie. Hopefully, the recession will help keep a lot of the would be transplants from being able to afford the move here and local companies will really start to enforce the "hire locally first" slogan. I know a lot of companies already do so, I just wish every company would hire locals and Texans first before even considering someone from out of state.

[Canine*Castle]

Originally Posted by Spade

Texans can be very provincial people at times which leads to people being annoyed with them. Austin is growing and people need to get over it. If people want to go to small town, go to Fredericksburg or something. But Austin is no longer the city that some people identified with in the 1970s anymore. It's time for people like AustinTexan to get over it.

To all Ohioans, Georgians, Californians, New Yorkers, Illinoisians, Michiganders, Pennsylvanians, and other Southerners, WELCOME TO TEXAS and I hope you all keep coming.

Amen, Spade!!!

[AustinTexan]

Originally Posted by Spade

Texans can be very provincial people at times which leads to people being annoyed with them. Austin is growing and people need to get over it. If people want to go to small town, go to Fredericksburg or something. But Austin is no longer the city that some people identified with in the 1970s anymore. It's time for people like AustinTexan to get over it.

To all Ohioans, Georgians, Californians, New Yorkers, Illinoisians, Michiganders, Pennsylvanians, and other Southerners, WELCOME TO TEXAS and I hope you all keep coming.

Get over yourself. You're probably a transplant, which would make sense. To all the people the transplant welcomed here, please find another state to overpopulate and ruin. There are no jobs here and I hope the local businesses will hire Texans first and then only as a last resort, will hire someone from out of state. I know a lot of businesses already do so, I just wish ALL OF THEM would do it. We need to take care of our own first! Period.

[love roses]

Originally Posted by bellasofia

You shouldn't be so quick to crucify people coming to live in Austin. Some of us are business owners looking to relocate our businesses there. Which means this would help the economy and we would be hiring people. I don't think that sounds bad.

Speaking of which, I saw an Ohio license plate on a company truck here in Hutto on my way to the eye doctor.

[JohninAustin]

I am a native Austinite (born in Seton Hospital) and I can not disagree with AustinTexan more. Austin has changed and a lot of it is for the better. All the new bars and resturants I find are great. The new development downtown is creating an exciting, walkable, and liveable central city. And I have definately made new friends from out of state as well (Michigan, Illinois, Kentucky and Wisconsin).

[TexasGirl@Heart]

Originally Posted by AustinTexan

Get over yourself. You're probably a transplant, which would make sense. To all the people the transplant welcomed here, please find another state to overpopulate and ruin. There are no jobs here and I hope the local businesses will hire Texans first and then only as a last resort, will hire someone from out of state. I know a lot of businesses already do so, I just wish ALL OF THEM would do it. We need to take care of our own first! Period.

AustinTexan, practice what you preach!

[Spade]

Originally Posted by AustinTexan

Get over yourself. You're probably a transplant, which would make sense. To all the people the transplant welcomed here, please find another state to overpopulate and ruin. There are no jobs here and I hope the local businesses will hire Texans first and then only as a last resort, will hire someone from out of state. I know a lot of businesses already do so, I just wish ALL OF THEM would do it. We need to take care of our own first! Period.

Nope. Not a transplant. Try again. Oh and I love the crying that you're doing in the rest of your post. It's hilarious. Oh and I second THG's post. Practice what you preach.