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Old 06-05-2013, 02:26 PM
 
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Old 06-05-2013, 04:20 PM
 
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thanks Forbes! We're keeping it totally weird with the $500,000 condos on the lake!
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Old 06-05-2013, 04:24 PM
 
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At some point, people in the rest of the country are going to get sick of reading/hearing about Austin, right?

Right??!
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Old 06-05-2013, 04:39 PM
 
Location: Beautiful Northwest Houston
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At some point, people in the rest of the country are going to get sick of reading/hearing about Austin, right?

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I am now oh wait, is that only because I am "envious" Austin's secret sauce is that Houston is so close, and contributes thousands of refugees every year. In the article she mentions Rice migrants, and Whole foods, which was started by John Mackey as major contributors, both Houston bred
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Old 06-05-2013, 04:46 PM
 
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  • John Mays 1 hour ago
    Austin hasn’t been “weird” in 20+ years. It used to be, no doubt. Now? Not so much.


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  • Bruce Darling 12 minutes ago
    Whatever made Austin a “weird” city has long been buried beneath gaudy MacMansions, ugly high-rise condos, traffic that moves like frozen molasses, skyrocketing real estate values and property taxes, and a raft of pointless and very expensive “green” ordinances shoved down the throats of residents by a gaggle of hare-brained left-wingers on the City Council. The soul of old Austin is now dimly lit, if not extinguished. Its once authentic “weirdness” has been replaced by slogans plastered on bumper stickers (“Keep Austin Weird”) adorning BMWs, Audis, and Hummers. Austin is weird no more.


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  • Parajit Patel 11 minutes ago
    AUSTIN NOW HAS 170 PEOPLE MOVING HERE PER DAY, PARTIALLY THANKS TO FORBES! the job market is ultra tight, traffic is miserable, apartment inventories are 97% occupied, and the cost of living withing 10 miles of downtown has grown by around 30%.
    Forbes is simply advertising for commercial real estate developers. If you want to move here, I hope you can afford a $500,000 condo downtown! suckers!
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Old 06-05-2013, 06:43 PM
 
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At some point, people in the rest of the country are going to get sick of reading/hearing about Austin, right?

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Right after freaking Tom Joad IV returns from California, I suppose.
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Old 06-05-2013, 06:44 PM
 
Location: The People's Republic of Austin
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...and Whole foods, which was started by John Mackey as major contributors, both Houston bred
Well, if you want to go that far, you could include Michael Dell and me - both "Houston bred". But you notice that none of the three of us want to live in Houston. In fact, based on comments at my last RE Lee reunion, the number of people in Houston who want to live in Austin FAR exceeds the number of people in Austin who want to live in Houston.
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Old 06-05-2013, 07:05 PM
 
Location: Beautiful Northwest Houston
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Well, if you want to go that far, you could include Michael Dell and me - both "Houston bred". But you notice that none of the three of us want to live in Houston. In fact, based on comments at my last RE Lee reunion, the number of people in Houston who want to live in Austin FAR exceeds the number of people in Austin who want to live in Houston.
Did you ask Michael Dell or are you assuming .

I agree wholeheartedly that Austin is more of a drain on Houston than vice-versa. A lot of that is demographics! My point was the modern Austin economy was built by people originally from Houston, more so, than Austin, and you help to further that point, thanks.

I think Houston can and should do more to retain talent that is nurtured here, and developed somewhere else, but that article had a subtext, that I think a lot of Austinites will fail to notice.
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Old 06-05-2013, 11:16 PM
 
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I know about a dozen people in Houston. Not a single one wants to be there, all are trapped by something, mostly energy related jobs.
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Old 06-05-2013, 11:41 PM
 
Location: Beautiful Northwest Houston
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I know about a dozen people in Houston. Not a single one wants to be there, all are trapped by something, mostly energy related jobs.
My guess is you avoid people who don't tell you what you want to hear about Houston, or people who like Houston avoid you, either way, you get a slanted result. There are loads of people here, who like it here, and at the very least wouldn't want to live anywhere else in Texas.

Remember the media loves to knock down what it once built up, be careful about buying into the hype
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