What happened to the slacker town I moved to 30 years ago?

[AustinN4]

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Edited to correct - posted in wrong forum - belongs in rants

 

[Armybrat]

I dunno.

What happened to the nice quiet little college town I moved to 55 years ago and was overrun later on by hippies, slackers, & now hipsters?

 

[Vaquero]

Ain't that a bitch?

Dell, mostly.

 

[LOCKHART]

I was born and raised in Austin. I spent my early youth on the eastside, but
we moved to south austin in 1954. I saw the handwriting on the wall in late
60's and moved my family to Hays county. I've never looked back, unless it
was to lament the passing of a nice Texas town. Now, the idiots from Commiefornia
and other liberal chitt holes, are moving here to continue their destruction of our
state. Kinda like they did to their own states!

 

[CrazedJava]

We moved to Austin in 1980 and I moved away in 2000. I grew up in Austin, I was 7 years old when we arrived. 1980 was a big tech boom, which is how we ended up there as my Dad transferred to R&D and the company he worked for had moved their labs there. Bam! Instant Texans. I left just before the big DotCom bust that anyone with half a brain saw coming. Now the town has more tech companies moving in just like the 90's. Every 10 years, except for 2000, it seems like more tech companies move in.

Basically, despite all the tech in DFW, Austin really is the Silicon Valley of Texas and they have similar cultures.

All that IT money is not going to be content with a sleeper little slacker hippyville. They want flash and gadgets. I have to say, I like visiting Austin but glad I don't live there anymore. Nothing is ever conveniently located and you can't hardly fart there without tripping an environmental study. The city council is an ineffective joke and don't even get me started on the Municipal Court (I used to work for Travis County Sheriff's Office as a jailer downtown)

There's been money in Austin for as long as I can remember. Even before the Dellionaires. It is very attractive to IT executives as the low taxes is worth setting up a residence in even if they don't live there most of the year. Kind of like how most companies I've worked for are are "Delaware based" corporations.

 

[Mikeinhistory]

Haha. I know people who were literally looking at that house this weekend.

 

[robertc1024]

You guys ain't seen nothing. I was born there, as was my dad (in his house in Hyde Park) which was the north end of town. He used to put fireworks that blew up if you threw them against the ground on the streetcar tracks. North Lamar was a dirt road in his time and after he got out of the Navy & got married, he built a house in Allendale between Great Northern and Shoal Creek in 1959. The street my parents built on (and still live on) was the last street in the city limits. There were literally cows across the street. He'd shoot dove on the railroad tracks next to Mopac. That probably wouldn't go over very well anymore.

 

[Vaquero]

You guys ain't seen nothing. I was born there, as was my dad (in his house in Hyde Park) which was the north end of town. He used to put fireworks that blew up if you threw them against the ground on the streetcar tracks. North Lamar was a dirt road in his time and after he got out of the Navy & got married, he built a house in Allendale between Great Northern and Shoal Creek in 1959. The street my parents built on (and still live on) was the last street in the city limits. There were literally cows across the street. He'd shoot dove on the railroad tracks next to Mopac. That probably wouldn't go over very well anymore.

I need a map for that one.

 

[TXAZ]

?.. He'd shoot dove on the railroad tracks next to Mopac. That probably wouldn't go over very well anymore.

I'm just west of there a mile, haven't seen many dove but keep thinking I could shoot the 3' tall vandalizing rats that come around every night, but there are too many Bambi lovers around here.

 

[JohnnyLoco]

I was born and raised in Austin. I spent my early youth on the eastside, but
we moved to south austin in 1954. I saw the handwriting on the wall in late
60's and moved my family to Hays county. I've never looked back, unless it
was to lament the passing of a nice Texas town. Now, the idiots from Commiefornia
and other liberal chitt holes, are moving here to continue their destruction of our
state. Kinda like they did to their own states!

Anything about 45 minutes around Austin is about ruined now. Between the yuppies and the illegals, you have to look long and hard for the small Texas towns of the past.

Try out around Bandera and west and south. Utopia is nice.

 

[Anger]

I dunno.

What happened to the nice quiet little college town I moved to 55 years ago and was overrun later on by hippies, slackers, & now hipsters?

Didn't you forget "working on a greencard with my and my property's (read the female) whole extended family from overseas?" Cuz that's all we gotz up in north austin.

 

[jbgramps]

I was born and raised in Central Texas about 80 miles from Austin. we've lived in Austin since 89. Now we've decided to move outside Travis and Williamson county. Just too crowded, too high taxes and too liberal. On the up side, Our house has increase in value three fold. Haven't picked a place yet, but thinking about Lake Buchanan area, or maybe east toward College Station. Can't get too far away because our kids and grand kids are in Georgetown.

 

[azkcr]

College station is a great town to be near. They are also growing. But are growing to the south (commuters to Houston).
They remain conservative in CS unlike Austin

 

[Davetex]

You guys ain't seen nothing. I was born there, as was my dad (in his house in Hyde Park) which was the north end of town. He used to put fireworks that blew up if you threw them against the ground on the streetcar tracks. North Lamar was a dirt road in his time and after he got out of the Navy & got married, he built a house in Allendale between Great Northern and Shoal Creek in 1959. The street my parents built on (and still live on) was the last street in the city limits. There were literally cows across the street. He'd shoot dove on the railroad tracks next to Mopac. That probably wouldn't go over very well anymore.

That's where I grew up. The other side of the RR tracks was Balcones DR. Anderson Lane was the north end of town. We were on Silverleaf way back then. Had friends over on Yellow Pine, Skylark, and the next one over, can't remember the name now.

 

[shortround]

I've driven THROUGH Austin many times on I-35, only to pass on through.

The last time I "visited" Austin was in 1977, when I drove there to bring my sister home from UT.

That was before Austin was just weird. It was downright nuts back then. First person I saw standing outside of the Dormitory was dressed in an all white Indian frock holding a white cat and chanting "Why can't we all be friends?"

Top that with the LBJ Library at UT when the cretin matriculated from Southwest Texas State Teacher's College in San Marcos.

 

[NeckBeard]

the first class pussification of the male species in this country is a prime reason why austin is becoming this way. it's not the only place that is faggin' out. the testicle-lacking masses are taking over.

 

[JohnnyLoco]

the first class pussification of the male species in this country is a prime reason why austin is becoming this way. it's not the only place that is faggin' out. the testicle-lacking masses are taking over.

Ever been to the West Coast?

The sissies over there make Austin trendies look like John Wayne.

Yeah, there is this new trend among white, urban 20/30 somethings in Austin and places like San Francisco and Seattle where they all talk like homosexuals and have the same mannerisms and all, while the women are acting more dominant and bossy. True reversal of roles.