How is Austin becoming like California?

[jdevelop2]

Originally Posted by TexasHorseLady

Just that I've seen people doing that for decades. It's when the trees and rocks start to talk back (and you, the eavesdropper, can hear them) that things get bizarre. Of course, some scientists have hooked plants up to electrodes and discovered that they evidently scream when injured, so maybe it's even less bizarre than I thought.

Does that make the guy who cuts my grass a mass torturer/murderer?

[artsyguy]

The campus looks like it was hit by an earthquake does that count as Californian?

[AK123]

Originally Posted by artsyguy

The campus looks like it was hit by an earthquake does that count as Californian?

Okay, I'm getting really curious.
Has something happened to the campus more recently? Are you talking about construction?

[hoffdano]

Nothing has happened to the campus. Artsyguy absolutely hates the University of Texas. That's all.

[austin-steve]

Californians, selling there small homes in Cali for $500,000+, moved here and saw homes 3 times the size they had in Cali, selling for 80-90,000.

My parents sold their home in San Diego for $169K in 1992 and moved here and bought an $82K home that 1.5 times the size, so the difference in prices at that time wasn't as pronounced as you say, but your point remains valid and is one with which I agree.

That same San Diego house was worth $550K when I drove through the old neighborhood on vacation in 2004 when prices were running up. Now it's probably worth somewhere in $300s.

Steve

[mwv]

Originally Posted by sliverbox

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What I saw a lot in Berkeley is people just acting and behaving outright bizzare, people talking to trees and rocks, randomly yelling, runaway suburban kids begging for money, or bicyclists intentionally blocking traffic, thus creating dangerous traffic situations. People talking seriously about religions they totally made up, people who had fried their brains with drugs.

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This is another thing I don't like about California, but it is of course more common in San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley.

There's a notable section of people who are so intent (in their own minds) on being novel and on the edge that they become pathetic. Transgression becomes a fetish, as if one has to act out against all perceived barriers merely because they are barriers.

It's childish, and the Bay Area has a lot of very childish adults.