Don't Move to Austin.
It's Rotting from Within.
PJ Media,
by
Bryan Preston
Original Article
Posted By: StormCnter,
9/14/2019 4:08:42 PM
I wish I'd taken a picture.
I'd turned off North Lamar and was driving north on the 183 service road. It has just rained, which makes Austin traffic even more ridiculous than usual. The rumor of rain will extend your commute by 15 minutes. An actual drop, half an hour. We'd had a quick storm, plus nearly every road downtown is under some kind of construction, plus a truck had hit a power line over on 360. That shut the road down in both directions, making Austin's already sclerotic arteries fail and throw commuter traffic into cardiac arrest. It took 90 minutes to go about 12 miles.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Smart11344 9/14/2019 4:24:45 PM (No. 179933)
It has always been a far left college town. So, I think it's understood that it's rotten to the core.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
HammerDax56 9/14/2019 4:35:10 PM (No. 179941)
There was a PSA on tv when I was young with an egg. This is your brain. Then it showed the same egg dropped in a hot frying pan. Your brain on drugs.
Same thing with today’s cities.
This is your beautiful city.
Now, this is your city on Democrat Mayor.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
web 9/14/2019 4:47:08 PM (No. 179950)
No doubt the horrible traffic jams are caused by the new generation of city planners. The professors were just coming out with eco-this and eco-that, conservation easements, bicycle paths and get us out of our cars when I graduated with a degree in Geography in 1993. The planners want to make traffic worse. They get rid of turn lanes and put in bicycle paths, which no one uses. That slows traffic down even more, as you now have to wait at the light to make a turn. These people are fanatics, and hate cars.
Then we have the fact that probably a third to a half of all the traffic (and school kids, and housing, medical, etc.) are illegals who are driving to jobs Americans would have had. At least we don't have such a homeless problem, just lots of yuppies and retirees from California.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Corndoggies 9/14/2019 5:09:20 PM (No. 179962)
The 131 toll road that allows our drivers to bypass Austin is the best thing that happened to TX trucking.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
bad-hair 9/14/2019 6:07:49 PM (No. 180009)
They have a T shirt in Austin that says "Keep Austin Weird".
We have a T shirt in Houston that says "Keep Austin 170 Miles from Here".
Hey Bryan. You may not like your politicians but apparently lots of weird people voted for them. Change it.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
SALady 9/14/2019 6:10:16 PM (No. 180012)
The Austin city council had one token conservative on the council last term. She gave up when the nutcase lie-berals just did what they wanted to do regardless of the cost or how it would destroy this city.
The Austin city council is now 100% uber lie-beral, and every insane thing they do -- which always costs us a bundle in tax dollars -- is just more stupid and more evil than the last thing they did!!!
Austin is the San Francisco of Texas!!!
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Maggie2u 9/14/2019 6:11:11 PM (No. 180013)
While reading this I was thinking he could be writing about Seattle then at the end he does say Austin is becoming Seattle. Also becoming Chicago for the violence. Last night in a popular downtown spot, three people were stabbed, one fatally, another in critical condition. There are murders in areas of Seattle, when I was a child, that never had violence and now is almost a daily happening.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
jj1319 9/14/2019 6:35:51 PM (No. 180030)
I haven't lived in Austin in 14 years, and traffic was a big problem then. I 35, Loop 360, 183, Ben White, Anderson/Koenig, 5th/6th st., just a nightmare.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
watashiyo 9/14/2019 6:49:19 PM (No. 180041)
Please don't come to San Antonio!!!
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
fayebeck 9/14/2019 9:09:29 PM (No. 180102)
As someone who has lived in California for the last 21 years and 11 yrs before, it gives me a perverse pleasure in seeing and hearing Big Bad Take No Nonsense Texans whine about what is happening in their state. #6 in California we consider San Francisco the Austin of California.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 9/14/2019 10:37:27 PM (No. 180161)
Please, please don’t flee your shole cities and bring that bs to Georgia. You voted for it, live with it but don’t bring it here.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Safari Man 9/14/2019 11:15:08 PM (No. 180173)
I lived in Austin for about 10 years. Most of the rest of my life in Houston/Woodlands. Why do you think I am moving to the Apalachicola National Forest? More bears and gators than people. Maybe one of the most conservative areas in the country.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Heil Liberals 9/15/2019 12:33:02 AM (No. 180185)
Pssst... it’s not an accident. They know exactly what they are doing.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
TXknitter 9/15/2019 4:33:49 AM (No. 180226)
Well,#10, I understand your feelings. Austin was a bit on the weird side way back before left coasters moved there in droves. Many areas of Texas - rural areas too - have changed a great deal.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
judy 9/15/2019 5:06:43 AM (No. 180231)
The liberal mayors are destroying the cities. Blame the people who continually vote them in office.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
coldborezero 9/15/2019 6:56:45 AM (No. 180267)
I would never consider moving to Austin. I have no desire to leave Texas.
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I was born in Austin. So many years ago, it was just a quiet little college town not yet discovered by the hippies and dippies and the liberals and the homeless.