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Posted: 2/22/2022 12:43:39 AM EDT
[#1]
I lived there a long time. It used to be fun and weird. Now it is just fucking depressing and disgusting.
When I was there, I would say the majority of people were conservative, but silent. I used to play darts with a group. I played with them 2-3 years or so. I kind of thought I had gotten to know them. Then one day they were quietly discussing taking a trip together-Tulsa... The whole group was probably more into guns than I was, but NEVER in 3 years did they mention it in public. Everyone at the table had a CHL. Same thing happened to me in Cedar Park. Went to a neighborhood bible study for a year or two. Never any mention of guns. Then one day we split into men's and women's group. Our "bible" discussion became 9mm/45 for concealed carry. Every man at the bible study had their CHL-but never mentioned it in public. Talking about their wives having an affair was fair table talk, guns was not. --- I have not been in Austin since the camping ban - shortly before it there were "homeless" under every fucking overpass, and urban campers in all the greenbelts. Don't even get me talking about their Covid crazies. |
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Posted: 2/22/2022 12:48:00 AM EDT
[#2]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Well what’s the deal about letting trees grow out of control? Do you have to pull a permit or something? Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: I lived in Austin for a year. There were restrictions with how the water could be used due to the aquafer. Well what’s the deal about letting trees grow out of control? Do you have to pull a permit or something? Yes. Anything over a certain diameter tree (12”?) is a “legacy” tree and you need a permit to cut them down. I don’t think you need one to trim though. Mostly it’s just people are lazy slobs who cant do their own yard work and do not know how to care for their trees. |
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Posted: 2/22/2022 12:51:02 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: We are in agreement with your timeline. Lived there 27 years. Left last year for Dripping Springs. Love it and do not miss Austin one bit. Cant believe how different it is in Austin every time I have to drive in. Really sad. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: From 1999 to 2010, Austin was a very nice place. It really started going downhill around 2012-2013. It has been a SHIT HOLE since 2018. I can't wait to leave! We are in agreement with your timeline. Lived there 27 years. Left last year for Dripping Springs. Love it and do not miss Austin one bit. Cant believe how different it is in Austin every time I have to drive in. Really sad. Yep. My wife & I are out your way, moved here in 2010. We wanted out of AISD, Austin, and Travis county. I had been in Austin since '82 and my wife is a native Austinite. Both of us agree that the Austin we grew up with is long gone. |
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Posted: 2/22/2022 1:04:25 AM EDT
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When I raised my kids here Austin was certainly liberal, but it wasn’t so much a shithole back then. It’s really gone downhill since the youngest graduated from LASA.
I really like my job here, I work for UT’s research branch, but I fear that’s not enough to keep me in the city where my kids grew up. That city is long gone. Liberals fuck up everything. |
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Posted: 2/22/2022 2:03:29 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Where on 6th? @mattpsky East 6th and Webberville. |
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Posted: 2/22/2022 4:14:32 AM EDT
[#6]
I wonder if Austin became like that in recent times. I thought the people there were easy going, though I was never there.
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Posted: 2/22/2022 5:43:17 AM EDT
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Stationed at Bergstrom from '75 to '79. Austin was a cool place back then. I lived right off the drag about a block from the Hole In The Wall.
6th Street was off limits back then. |
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Posted: 2/22/2022 5:43:18 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: From 1999 to 2010, Austin was a very nice place. It really started going downhill around 2012-2013. It has been a SHIT HOLE since 2018. I can't wait to leave! Its sad to hear that. I was there from 2010-2014 for school and it just seemed to be the normal big city kind of dirty. At least the homeless people back then were nice, you were way more likely to be offered free drugs than you were to get robbed or beaten 
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Posted: 2/22/2022 6:54:11 AM EDT
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My wife and I moved there 50 years ago, stayed for 4 years. It was good for bicycling back then and we really liked going to UT.
We did meet some batshit crazy Liberals. They were extremely judgmental and negative though. Back then girls and young women liked to wear no bras and skimpy, see through tops along with long hair and not much makeup. That was heaven for men. Democrats seem to push hard for a "nothing can be nice" culture. Progressive = "nothing can be nice". |
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Posted: 2/22/2022 6:55:12 AM EDT
[#10]
I thought Austin was the hot new trendy place to live?
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Posted: 2/22/2022 7:18:14 AM EDT
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Sad to hear how far it has declined. I've only been there once, as a teenager in 1975 I thought it was a beautiful city. Clean, safe, great for bicycling. My late dad, a UT grad, would be livid if he knew....
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Posted: 2/22/2022 7:27:42 AM EDT
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The Geezinslaw Brothers would not approve.
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Posted: 2/22/2022 7:32:03 AM EDT
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Quoted: In town for a job. Holy shit this place is horrible. Everything is nasty as shit. Trash everywhere. Nasty looking people everywhere. Just gross. Everything is just dirty. |
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Posted: 2/22/2022 7:48:41 AM EDT
[#14]
well that sucks
was thinking of taking a roadtrip WI to austin-galveston-NO-pensecola.... |
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Posted: 2/22/2022 8:09:21 AM EDT
[#15]
Pre-Wu Flu I went to San Antonio every year for vendor training. I took a side trip to Austin one year and was amazed at how shitty people were.
As for filthy, try Montreal some time. |
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Posted: 2/22/2022 8:11:56 AM EDT
[#16]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Austin is a shithole Word! |
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Posted: 2/22/2022 8:13:31 AM EDT
[#17]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Should have seen it before the camping ban was passed. Truth.... you mean the camping ban was re-enforced. It's been around for decades. |
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Posted: 2/22/2022 8:16:20 AM EDT
[#18]
The liberals have also destroyed Dallas and Houston.
I lived in Houston back in the 1970s and it was in ruins back then so the attacks from California must have started in the 1950s and 60s. |
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Posted: 2/22/2022 8:18:07 AM EDT
[#19]
Quote HistoryQuoted: The liberals have also destroyed Dallas and Houston. I lived in Houston back in the 1970s and it was in ruins back then so the attacks from California must have started in the 1950s and 60s. Dallas isn't as bad as Austin or Houston. Yet |
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Posted: 2/22/2022 8:21:04 AM EDT
[#20]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Liberals do that They’re like cockroaches. |
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Posted: 2/22/2022 8:22:15 AM EDT
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Lots of blue haired people everywhere. I live in Pflugerville and avoid going into Austin as much as I can.
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Posted: 2/22/2022 8:22:43 AM EDT
[#22]
I go there for the motogp, and terry blacks bbq. And I am always armed.
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Posted: 2/22/2022 8:30:30 AM EDT
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Austin was cool up to the early 90’s. The Texas Silicon Valley moved in and it started to go full militant lib tard. It hit peek lib tard during Obama. The cool lib tard left because it wasn’t hip lib tard anymore and the militant lib tard took over.
Sadly the cool lib tard moved north and south of Austin and is currently infecting those areas, spreading the lib tard virus that destroyed Austin. They are also moving into San Antoinio as well. I-35 from Georgetown to San Antonio will be a liberal shithole in 25 years except in gated communities. The Matthew McConaughey type Texas liberal is taking over, shitting and moving on when the cool is no longer cool enough. |
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Posted: 2/22/2022 8:37:49 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Lots of blue haired people everywhere. I live in Pflugerville and avoid going into Austin as much as I can. Pluggerville has sucked for awhile. How's your intermarried city council doing?
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Posted: 2/22/2022 8:50:53 AM EDT
[#25]
What large city isn't a filthy shithole?
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Posted: 2/22/2022 9:12:51 AM EDT
[#26]
Quote HistoryQuoted: From 1999 to 2010, Austin was a very nice place. It really started going downhill around 2012-2013. It has been a SHIT HOLE since 2018. I can't wait to leave! I was there 20 years ago and it was already shitty then. |
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Posted: 2/22/2022 9:16:04 AM EDT
[#27]
And they will/have dragged the entire state down that hole.
 At least this might stop some of the liberals from moving there. |
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Posted: 2/22/2022 9:17:01 AM EDT
[#28]
Quote HistoryQuoted: What large city isn't a filthy shithole? OKC is full of Dems, hipsters, and gang bangers. Everyone should stay away! |
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Posted: 2/22/2022 9:19:22 AM EDT
[#29]
It's getting dangerous, on another front. No traffic enforcement has had a serious toll.
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Posted: 2/22/2022 9:20:28 AM EDT
[#30]
1977-88. Keep Austin weird used to be a fun town.
Now it's just keep Austin nasty. |
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Posted: 2/22/2022 9:21:01 AM EDT
[#31]
Quote HistoryQuoted: It's getting dangerous, on another front. No traffic enforcement has had a serious toll. https://media.kvue.com/assets/KVUE/images/c8a62429-fee1-4fbd-b1ca-077e4f38547f/c8a62429-fee1-4fbd-b1ca-077e4f38547f_1920x1080.jpg No, it's the illegal drivers that think they can drive the same way here as the did back where they came from. Along with being drunk. |
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Posted: 2/22/2022 9:21:27 AM EDT
[#32]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Never been to Austin. I'm sure it can't be worse than Portland. Portland and Austin are basically the same city with the same types of people, except Austin has a lot more brown skinned people. |
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Posted: 2/22/2022 9:22:22 AM EDT
[#33]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Portland and Austin are basically the same city with the same types of people, except Austin has a lot more brown skinned people. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Never been to Austin. I'm sure it can't be worse than Portland. Portland and Austin are basically the same city with the same types of people, except Austin has a lot more brown skinned people. And guns.... we have guns.
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Posted: 2/22/2022 9:22:39 AM EDT
[#34]
Quote HistoryQuoted: No, it's the illegal drivers that think they can drive the same way here as the did back where they came from. Along with being drunk. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: It's getting dangerous, on another front. No traffic enforcement has had a serious toll. https://media.kvue.com/assets/KVUE/images/c8a62429-fee1-4fbd-b1ca-077e4f38547f/c8a62429-fee1-4fbd-b1ca-077e4f38547f_1920x1080.jpg No, it's the illegal drivers that think they can drive the same way here as the did back where they came from. Along with being drunk. Well, yeah. And the stoned drivers with paper tags. |
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Posted: 2/22/2022 9:22:41 AM EDT
[#35]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Stationed at Bergstrom from '75 to '79. Austin was a cool place back then. I lived right off the drag about a block from the Hole In The Wall. 6th Street was off limits back then. Lived on 22 1/2 St. for years. |
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Posted: 2/22/2022 9:23:21 AM EDT
[#36]
We raced at COTA this past weekend.
Two trucks broken in to and a ton of stuff stolen. Ridiculous |
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Posted: 2/22/2022 9:23:25 AM EDT
[#37]
I'll be there for the first time in a few months for MotoGP. Been a while since I've been to a liberal strong hold. Last time was when I went to Oregon. I was amazed at the homeless and their "camps"
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Posted: 2/22/2022 9:24:04 AM EDT
[#38]
Thirty years ago Austin was beautiful....I spent a lot of time there on business....my last trip there was in 2018 and it was disgusting....I will only drive thru there, will not stop
Liberal shithole with a liberal shithole university there.... |
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Posted: 2/22/2022 9:28:35 AM EDT
[#39]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Well, yeah. And the stoned drivers with paper tags. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: It's getting dangerous, on another front. No traffic enforcement has had a serious toll. https://media.kvue.com/assets/KVUE/images/c8a62429-fee1-4fbd-b1ca-077e4f38547f/c8a62429-fee1-4fbd-b1ca-077e4f38547f_1920x1080.jpg No, it's the illegal drivers that think they can drive the same way here as the did back where they came from. Along with being drunk. Well, yeah. And the stoned drivers with paper tags. Austin has always had a larger amount of traffic Collison than it should for a similar sized city. |
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Posted: 2/22/2022 9:34:48 AM EDT
[#40]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Liberals do that |
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Posted: 2/22/2022 9:40:41 AM EDT
[#41]
Back in the late 90's, I'd go downtown to see bands, and I never felt in danger.
I haven't been down there in years before a couple months ago. I went down to a club on Red River to see my nephew play drums in a band. Yeah... downtown is a mess. TONS of those electric scooters everywhere, mostly not being used. People everywhere. Homeless people camped out on sidewalks. I didn't necessarily feel unsafe, but I didn't really want to be there. At all. I could go the rest of my life without going downtown. |
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Posted: 2/22/2022 9:43:50 AM EDT
[#42]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I thought Austin was the hot new trendy place to live? For Californians. They buy up all the houses out west in Westlake and Bee Caves, keep voting in the ACAB lesbian city council and sit by their pools and laugh. |
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Posted: 2/22/2022 9:51:43 AM EDT
[#43]
Went there with then-gf in 2019. Stopped in a Wendy's to grab something to eat. I'd never before, or since, seen a Wendy's without a seating area.
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Posted: 2/22/2022 9:51:48 AM EDT
[#44]
Austin was a shithole overrun by hobos. The only redeeming thing about it was the food.
Get some cooper's BBQ. Brisket and ribs, yes to the sauce they dunk it in. Thats about the best thing the city has to offer. Quoted: Portland and Austin are basically the same city with the same types of people, except Austin has a lot more brown skinned people. Isn't portland the one with no sales tax? Ive been to both for work. The difference i experienced was austin was thousands of hobos in huge groups. Portland was the same amount of hobos peppered out every where. They said basically both cities have laws in place to "protect" the homeless. What it turns into is attracting hobos from all over the country. They flock to those places like hobo mecca and Madina. I do remember we had folks at work help everybody place our orders for shit and had it ready when we got to portland. We saved boatloads of money because no sales tax. |
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Posted: 2/22/2022 10:30:10 AM EDT
[#45]
It’s a malignant tumor.
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Posted: 2/22/2022 12:13:08 PM EDT
[#46]
Quote HistoryQuoted: My wife and I moved there 50 years ago, stayed for 4 years. It was good for bicycling back then and we really liked going to UT. We did meet some batshit crazy Liberals. They were extremely judgmental and negative though. Back then girls and young women liked to wear no bras and skimpy, see through tops along with long hair and not much makeup. That was heaven for men. Democrats seem to push hard for a "nothing can be nice" culture. Progressive = "nothing can be nice". YES! That’s how I see it. Austin used to be pretty cool honesty. 5-7 years ago or so….. the women were always amazing….. But it’s exactly like you describe…. Every aspect that has something good to it seems to be attacked until it’s destroyed. |
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Posted: 2/22/2022 12:14:09 PM EDT
[#47]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Back in the late 90's, I'd go downtown to see bands, and I never felt in danger. I haven't been down there in years before a couple months ago. I went down to a club on Red River to see my nephew play drums in a band. Yeah... downtown is a mess. TONS of those electric scooters everywhere, mostly not being used. People everywhere. Homeless people camped out on sidewalks. I didn't necessarily feel unsafe, but I didn't really want to be there. At all. I could go the rest of my life without going downtown. I was driving to my hotel around 2-3 last night through downtown….. definitely a “not safe” feeling. |
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Posted: 2/22/2022 5:22:08 PM EDT
[#48]
Quote HistoryQuoted: It's getting dangerous, on another front. No traffic enforcement has had a serious toll. https://media.kvue.com/assets/KVUE/images/c8a62429-fee1-4fbd-b1ca-077e4f38547f/c8a62429-fee1-4fbd-b1ca-077e4f38547f_1920x1080.jpg I suspect the sharp increase in traffic fatalities is mostly due to the 10 fold increase in bums playing Frogger on I-35. |
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Posted: 2/22/2022 5:30:38 PM EDT
[#49]
I only ever lived out West for the 10 years I was there. Southwest Parkway / Bee Cave / Lakeway were where we frequented.
Hobos were off of Guadalupe and 6th/5th, primarily near the churches/shelters... now they're literally EVERYWHERE. Took the family back last year and tried to hike Bull Creek with them as I've done hundreds of times.... the amount of trash / diapers was disgusting to say the least. |
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Posted: 2/22/2022 5:32:30 PM EDT
[#50]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Never been to Austin. I'm sure it can't be worse than Portland. I have been to both... it's not as bad as Portland. |
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