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Old 04-11-2018, 09:10 AM
 
Location: Austin, TX
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Now we're going to get another surge of people from the around the US to come in and drive prices up and worsen traffic.

Great, just great.
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Old 04-11-2018, 09:19 AM
 
Location: Avery Ranch, Austin, TX
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Now we're going to get another surge of people from the around the US to come in and drive prices up and worsen traffic.

Great, just great.
Heck, many of them would already be on the way IF they could dig out of the snow at home!!!
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Old 04-11-2018, 09:46 AM
 
Location: Round Rock, Texas
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Interesting. Two young men sitting at the bar of one of mine and my husband’s favorite restaurants last night said they had just moved here from Austin.
My son & DIL love to visit Charleston. They say it has all the charm of New Orleans.... but without the awful smells.
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Old 04-11-2018, 09:55 AM
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Impressions on living in Round Rock for 6 years.

My 1000 sq foot 2BR Dr. Horton house went from 119k purchase price to 182k appraised value this year.

My commute from CP to Round Rock has gone from 25 minutes to 45 minutes plus.

Services from the city of RR have been great. Taxes have gone way up.

Most weekends we don't want to fight the traffic to go to Austin, we stay in the wilco suburbs.

Jobs in mine and my wife's field pay substantially more in Houston or Dallas, and the housing is far cheaper.
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Old 04-11-2018, 10:09 AM
 
Location: Avery Ranch, Austin, TX
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My son & DIL love to visit Charleston. They say it has all the charm of New Orleans.... but without the awful smells.
Back in the old days, the paper plant smells on the way in from Columbia would have had them singing a different tune! Truly hard to ignore!
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Old 04-11-2018, 07:08 PM
 
Location: Round Rock, Texas
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Back in the old days, the paper plant smells on the way in from Columbia would have had them singing a different tune! Truly hard to ignore!
Sometime in the late 1960s or early 1970s Michelin Tire Co. wanted to build a tire manufacturing plant in North Austin on Parmer Lane just west of 35, IIRC.
Austin had the good sense to turn them down.
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Old 04-11-2018, 08:45 PM
 
Location: Austin, TX
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Sometime in the late 1960s or early 1970s Michelin Tire Co. wanted to build a tire manufacturing plant in North Austin on Parmer Lane just west of 35, IIRC.
Austin had the good sense to turn them down.
Instead Beaumont took them in. Yeah Austin made the right decision.
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Old 04-11-2018, 11:00 PM
 
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People in Austin sound really unhappy about their circumstance and unwelcoming of outsiders. How could it possibly be the best place to live.
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Old 04-12-2018, 08:11 AM
 
Location: Austin, TX
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People in Austin sound really unhappy about their circumstance and unwelcoming of outsiders. How could it possibly be the best place to live.
When you got something good, you don't necessarily want to ruin it.
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Old 04-12-2018, 08:41 AM
 
Location: Round Rock, Texas
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People in Austin sound really unhappy about their circumstance and unwelcoming of outsiders. How could it possibly be the best place to live.
It's not the people themselves that are "unwelcome" (as you put it) it's just the added traffic, infrastructure burden, & increased CoL all of them bring.
I helped by moving out of Austin to Round Rock in 1995, but the handful of Wilco natives didn't like that much either.
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