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Old 03-30-2015, 11:23 AM
 
Location: Warrior Country
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The district spends the most on Eastside Memorial High School in East Austin, about $13,674 in 2014. Some of the money is financing consultants from a Johns Hopkins-affiliate hired to turn around the low-performing high school. That compares with per pupil spending at higher-performing Bowie High in Southwest Austin, about $5,280.
Need to keep Hound Jr. busting the books & have him nail the SAT. I'd love for him to snag one of those Johns Hopkins gigs down the road. (or maybe a Train Feasibility Study....since Metro & the City seems to spend a few million on one of these every 6 or 8 years.)
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Old 03-30-2015, 02:01 PM
 
Location: Austin, TX
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You are so wrong it's just funny.

That's a $1.5M house

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For the difference in price between that and a "4 bedroom house in Steiner", you could put half of it in an investment that would pay the Texas property taxes forever.

That 1920 home will also cost you more in upkeep per year than you pay in taxes in Steiner.
Actually that's a $1M house not $1.5M. That being said, somehow the URL got moved down the street a bit. I pasted the wrong URL. I meant 1190 Shell Beach Dr, Lake Charles, LA 70601, which is $469K.

https://www.google.com/maps/@30.2173...7IU8N4nOSA!2e0

Check out the meager property taxes on that establishment and compare to Steiner, and it's on a lake that doesn't dry up to boot!

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Old 03-30-2015, 02:53 PM
 
Location: The People's Republic of Austin
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... and it's on a lake that doesn't dry up to boot!
Well, since it is downstream of the Saltwater Barrier, it is open to the ocean. If that dries up, we have a REALLY big problem.
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Old 03-30-2015, 02:59 PM
 
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Actually that's a $1M house not $1.5M.
Sold in 2012 for 1.395 M. Closest .5M, sue me.
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Old 03-30-2015, 03:00 PM
 
Location: Austin, TX
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Well, since it is downstream of the Saltwater Barrier, it is open to the ocean. If that dries up, we have a REALLY big problem.
Exactly! It's why lately I've been thinking connected to ocean front > lake front for several reasons, one being that the water is always constant.
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Old 03-30-2015, 03:12 PM
 
Location: Austin, TX
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Exactly! It's why lately I've been thinking connected to ocean front > lake front for several reasons, one being that the water is always constant.
Not exactly, hurricanes and tropical depressions can raise the water level up to 20' in some situations. This effects all bodies of water along the coast that are connected to the gulf.

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Old 03-30-2015, 03:17 PM
 
Location: Avery Ranch, Austin, TX
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Exactly! It's why lately I've been thinking connected to ocean front > lake front for several reasons, one being that the water is always constant.
Yeah, what about those melting glaciers
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Old 03-30-2015, 05:07 PM
 
Location: Austin, TX
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Yeah, what about those melting glaciers
Well I should rephrase, the water never dries up, unless there's another ice age on the way...
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Old 04-02-2015, 09:14 AM
 
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Yeah, but you'd have to live in Louisiana. I still think we got a raw deal from France. Did we know so much of it is below sea level?
You might want to brush up on your geography then. That is the mouth of the Mississippi River...a gigantic highway that connects to a tributary system that attaches to the entire continental U.S. A highway system in the time before roads or highways.

I know your comment was probably tongue in cheek, but it was a phenomenal deal. I wouldn't be surprised to see New Orleans as the financial capital of the U.S. had the Eerie Canal not been built. Had you been looking at nothing other than a geographical map, anyone would have picked that spot as the logical choice.
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Old 04-02-2015, 09:25 AM
 
Location: The People's Republic of Austin
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I know your comment was probably tongue in cheek, but it was a phenomenal deal. I wouldn't be surprised to see New Orleans as the financial capital of the U.S. had the Eerie Canal not been built.
New Orleans is an oligarchy at best, a banana republic at worst. It has all powerful cliques and families that are driven by a desire to maintain the status quo. Entrepreneurship there is impossible, because the people that control the city, and more importantly, the money, are uninterested in supporting anything that would upset the power structure. To think that could become a financial capital is ignoring reality.
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