Austin, Texas

Is this post from 2003 or something?

No its from today R1 is there something wrong with your reading comprehension? If you are going to be rude then leave.

[Quote]If you are going to be rude then leave.

Definitely not a DL motto.

R3 But its the motto for this thread. I just wanted to know what the experience is like not argue and nit pick. God are DLers so bitchy lately? This place used to be funny yet informative.

OP see all these beautiful new skyscrapers? Most of them are half-empty. Austin was destroyed in the teens by wealthy developers building second homes, investment properties and money laundering havens for coastal bouges (especially the Bay Area) and the Chinese. I believe it’s now the most inflated real estate market in America.

If you have a mil to drop on a fixer upper shotgun house, and aren’t really interested in having a job, by all means, move down there.

Second most inflated after Boise

Thank you R5 and R6 for the information. That's all I asked for. I appreciate it.

It's a nice place. Lots of gays. Horrid traffic. LOTS of homeless downtown. The outskirts are beautiful, but you definitely know you are in Texas.

R5–Some friends and I just visited and we noted how the downtown area near the river consisted almost entirely of newly constructed buildings. There was so little left that I wondered what had been in that area. Was it just residential or industrial? There were good restaurants and bars in some of the new buildings, but the area seemed a bit sterile because there was nothing old.

Outlying residential areas seemed nice. Good barbecue.

Have you been to Hill Country, OP? It is really pretty, reminds me of California

Just little two and three story buildings

Even YEARS ago it was one of the gay capitals…I’m sure you'll find company there, Op.

It’s too bad the older buildings downtown weren’t large enough to preserve. A street scape needs a mix of old and new to have character.

It’s hotter than fuck in summer

[quote]Can any DLers currently or formally living there tell me what its like overall?

Oh Dear, dear!

Boots with tuxedos, I’m afraid. If you call that formal.

I like Austin but it has lost something along with the upsurge in tech. The Hill country is nice.

Austin was never a significant business center like Dallas, Houston or San Antonio so it doesn’t have nice old buildings outside the government buildings or university.

Caftans and crinolines.

I moved to Austin in 1994 when I was 22. I fell in love with Austin right away. It's not what it used to be. Overpriced, horrendous traffic, high rent and expensive homes. It is a liberal city and gay friendly and good restaurants, but you are still in a red state. Mild winters and very hot summers. Yes, the hill country is really nice. Austin has lost it's charm that I fell in love with. But, it's home and the only place I can tolerate living in Texas. I'm a native Texan btw.

MARY! R15 go take your anxiety meds. You're becoming a hysterical queen.

I briefly lived in Austin in the late 80's and it was a blast. It was still a great place to be in the 90's when SXSW was taking off. I went there before the pandemic and was surprised to see how much it had grown and, my God, the traffic was hideous (and I lived in LA at the time.) I entertained moving there recently but found that San Antonio/Boerne was more affordable and Austin wasn't that far away.

Second everyone who says the traffic is horrible. Austin has lost it's charm.

OP, you might consider Eureka Springs, AR. Much more affordable, nice gay community, nice art community and the weather is a bit more tolerable in the summer.

what about Houston?

Houston is a mess. Used to be a great place to live but it has really gone into the toilet.

Yes, but unfortunately it's surrounded by this hellhole known as Texas.

I live in Houston and the traffic has gotten horrendous. Still fantastic dining though.

A half mil for a basic single story 3bedroom house in the burbs. Traffic like you cannot believe and constant road construction.

Houston is bustling, eccentric Southern city. It is basically in a jungle swamp which I think makes it fascinating but one of the things that gives Houston its massive inferiority complex. The air does not move in the summer.

Dallas is basically a Midwestern city but more stereotypically Texan for better or for worse. I would live in either of them before I live in Austin, which is basically a bourgeois Potemkin village at this point.

Does San Antonio have the bad traffic and overvalued real estate that Austin has? San Antonio might be the place to move to.

R30 Traffic is bad but I had a friend who lived on the outskirts and it was very nice where he lived. Not sure about real estate.

[quote]It's not what it used to be.

This. I had a bunch of FBs who went to UT and they all raved about how great Austin was but that was in the early 90s. Now it's overcrowded, overpriced and the traffic is appalling.

I had a job offer there a few years ago for what sounded like a good salary, but when I started looking at housing prices, I realized I'd have to live in a van down by the river.

[quote]I had a job offer there a few years ago for what sounded like a good salary, but when I started looking at housing prices, I realized I'd have to live in a van down by the river.

Where do you live now, gurl?

People are eating out of dumpsters there!

Really consider the heat and humidity, OP. Worse than New Orleans. And it doesn't cool off at night.

Oh I think New Orleans is way worse. I'm from Houston and last time I visited NO in summer I thought I would pass out. Austin is a bit drier too.

OP. You can go dancing at Pearl Street Warehouse. I did in 1978.

Austin is not humid you freaking dumbass.

Austin is beyond humid at times. It is a sweat box in the summer. Have you been there?

Austin can get very humid. As a matter of fact it's humid right now!

I just saw this and thought of this thread

This is the kind of person who has destroyed Austin Texas

“I’m normally a red wine girly”

Bowels instantly evacuates

R41 Yes, thank you!

Austinite

“Off on our hot girl walk”

It’s where California libertarians move when they “don’t want to raise their kids here.”

Aren’t Uber and Lyft still banned in Austin? That + lack of public transportation seems like a DUI waiting to happen.

Are there ANY mid size American cities that have improved in the past decade or two? Everyplace seems to have degraded

I used Uber or Lyft last time I was there R45 which was about 2-3 years?

Austin is pretentious, hot, and expensive. Also, you'll get homeless people shitting on your lawn, and car traffic that rivals Los Angeles.

Save your money and move to Fort Worth, Tucson, Reno, or Atlanta. They're all still trashy, but at least they're cheaper so you'll have extra cash to spend on liquor and a tall fence!

Check out the state political scene and also the local political scene before you make a jump to ANYWHERE!

I don't care how nice it is -- Texas, like Florida, is a HARD PASS.

It's 90 degrees today. Two years ago this week was snowmageddon when most of the city was without power and the temperatures were far below freezing for several days.

Uber and Lyft are back in Austin.

Austinites: What's the summer situation like there in mid June? Is tubing still a thing there on the river "Lake Austin" ?

Here’s another of these bitches

I don’t think Houston has them. Dallas, maybe.

It’s like all the Alexis Rose clones set up a colony

OMG The vocal fry

“That’s a LAAAAHT of TAAAAAHCOES”

Comments are torching her for the garish decor, shitty quality of Torchy’s and awful wages of employees. But House is a good metaphor for what Austin has become.

Is Austin the douchebag capital of the US? So many tech bros and hipster tryhards, and Elon and Joe Rogan live there

Your governor, lieutenant governor, and US senator would be known conservative crackpots Abbott, Patrick, and Cruz so proceed at your own risk.

It could arguably be the douchebag capitol

The Bay Area has more douches per capital but that is tempered by the presence of San Francisco and it’s important cultural and historical legacy

Austin doesn’t have that, just the douches