Is it just me or.........

[Lonesome Dove]

Most all the new members are moving to or have moved to or have been residents for a time from Austin.

Other than the geography and the liberal over run is there something else or some kind of magnetic field that draws em in? Housing and property are not cheap in fact way over priced.
Traffic is just that. Tourist attractions are overly crowded, Downtown area Sucks!, Lake Travis is just a lake, is it the California, New Yorker, New Jersey, Arizona and such vibe?
Long standing residents don't go off on me I know it was a great place a couple decades ago and once you're settled you're settled.

 

[TreyG-20]

Jobs.

 

[Tnhawk]

Most all the new members are moving to or have moved to or have been residents for a time from Austin.

Other than the geography and the liberal over run is there something else or some kind of magnetic field that draws em in? Housing and property are not cheap in fact way over priced.
Traffic is just that. Tourist attractions are overly crowded, Downtown area Sucks!, Lake Travis is just a lake, is it the California, New Yorker, New Jersey, Arizona and such vibe?
Long standing residents don't go off on me I know it was a great place a couple decades ago and once you're settled you're settled.

There's too many Texans in other parts of the State.

 

[Shady]

Austin holds high paying tech jobs

 

[mdf9183]

I lived there for 20 years but that was because of my job, when I retired I got out of there as fast as I could.That was in 1989 and haven't been back since

 

[BRD@66]

A job promotion brought me to Austin in 1979 & I stayed for (sigh) 25 years.

 

[FireInTheWire]

Texas is the 8th largest economy in the world... that should sum it up.

 

[dsgrey]

Talking with a friend the other day. Her daughter plus the daughter's friends graduated from UNT Denton a few years back and they all headed to Austin due to job opportunities being better than DFW.

 

[Moonpie]

Yep, jobs.

My sister left her job in S.A.
Drove 60 miles up I35.
Tripled her salary.

 

[kbaxter60]

Jobs.

...at companies with the same/similar "mindset" of the cesspool community left behind.
Not a good outlook for the Austin, area, I am afraid. We lived in WA for years and got to see the decay from the CA exodus. The people were always SO glad to be away from the taxes and gangs and crap, but still had their lefty mindsets, even though it ruined their former homes, which began in paradise.

 

[Lonesome Dove]

Austin holds high paying tech jobs

Yeah but not worth the ticket price.

 

[Lonesome Dove]

Austin holds high paying tech jobs

If you move to Austin you support Austin and it's libtard agenda.

 

[toddnjoyce]

Yeah but not worth the ticket price.

Eh, not to you.

The greater Mustang Ridge-Elgin-Cedar Park metropolitan statistical area was the 2nd fastest growing MSA in the US in 2023. Georgetown is in the MSA and was the fastest growing city >50,000 in the US in 2022. It stands that some percentage of that growth is going to find it’s way to our little corner of the ‘net.

I grew up in Pflugerville, experiencing it’s growth from a one schoolhouse town to there being about a dozen or so schools. Left in ‘92 came back for visits to family until they all went further out over the last three years or so. Not my cup of tea, but it’s certainly is for a lot of people.

 

[baboon]

Hell I just thought they all wanted to be close to Hippy Hollow for some butt naked adventures.

 

[General Zod]

If you move to Austin you support Austin and it's libtard agenda.

It's easy to sit back and judge others trying to support their families, I suppose. Must be nice.

 

[wakosama]

Maybe it's the part of TX most similar to CA...

 

[Tnhawk]

Maybe it's the part of TX most similar to CA...

It will become that in a short time!

 

[Vaquero]

It will become that in a short time!

Already is.

 

[General Zod]

Already is.

About 10 years ago, they started work on a new subdivision outside Dripping Springs (which is outside Austin). I thought nothing of it, rather than lamenting the loss of more countryside for a neighborhood full of expensive cookie-cutter houses on tiny plots of grass with a single sapling planted out front.

Then, a few months in, they put up a billboard advertising the name of their little housing development.

"Caliterra".

No shit. Guess who they're catering to?

 

[PinnedandRecessed]

It's easy to sit back and judge others trying to support their families, I suppose. Must be nice.