Does this traffic make you feel depressed?

[TexasHorseLady]

Originally Posted by RoamingTX

And the insular close-minded morons who thought that this wasn’t something that could happen when they restricted the ability to build near the main job/entertainment source at the time.

Your need to flee was created by you and your ilk.

Hindsight is always 20/20, but stupidity and partisan single-issue politics have existed for so damn long that people fail to see past the end of their own ever-growing nose.

By this do you mean tear down the lovely single family housing that made it a desirable place to live and replace with multi-family ant hills?

[RoamingTX]

Correct. And look what it got us. I realize it’s been pointed out to you about 7,432 times.

You ran anyway, rather than try to help the city through it. You created a problem and ran from the result.

[Trainwreck20]

Originally Posted by 10scoachrick

There are lies, damned lies...and then there are statistics.

A percentage growth rate is hardly what many people see on a daily basis. They see actual people, so that moderate growth rate still means really crowded festivals, water features, concerts, restaurants, bike rides, streets, etc etc compared to just a decade ago(when we arrived, give or take).

That is true, and the greater growth of the suburbs (compared to CoA) is a significant factor; but my real point is that growth is also a factor in desirability. There are way more festivals and options than there used to be; the difference I see is in the things that don't expand at all - the hike-n-bike trail, Barton Creek, etc. That 'lovely single family home' had nothing at all to do with my situation in Austin in the 1980s or most of the 90s, since I lived in dumpy MFUs of one sort of another.

[TexasHorseLady]

Originally Posted by RoamingTX

Correct. And look what it got us. I realize it’s been pointed out to you about 7,432 times.

You ran anyway, rather than try to help the city through it. You created a problem and ran from the result.

Heck, if I could have kept my horses on our city lot (five minutes from downtown), I would have stayed - it was still livable when we moved to the ranch (I'm still in Austin often, sometimes five days a week, sometimes once, and until he retired my husband was there 7 days a week, 12 or more hours a day). As it is I kept the house and it is rented to some native Austinites that I've known all or most of their lives.



And glad you admit that your "solution" is to turn Austin into something entirely different from what enticed people to move here in the first place and to turn it into your preferred ant hill. Which is no solution at all.

[m1a1mg]

I've lived a lot of places, but one consistent theme through living in fast growing cities, everyone wants it to be what is was when they moved there. Not realizing that they are just as much a problem as the ones moving there today.