Thread 508157549

Why isn't Austin trendy anymore? After years of rapid growth, rental and home prices have suddenly taken a dive this year, and Austin-area properties are sitting on the market for much longer than before.

>>508157549 (OP)
Houston and Dallas are like 10x bigger than Austin. The city is in a large empty plains area in South Texas. When building houses, they just went and sprawled it, there’s lots of really cheap land surrounding Austin. The result was that interest areas, like University of Texas exploded in value, but the housing market in suburban areas floored in price like rural Nebraska.

Also, Austin is not Los Angeles even though Elon Musk cosplays it as such. Moving to Austin is in itself a degrading decision, admitting that you couldn’t make it in Los Angeles. Is it really so degrading to move 10 minutes from the city center so you can really take advantage of being in rural Texas? You’re already over 1300 miles from where you wanted to live.

>>508157549 (OP)
Niggers run rampant, illegal beaners have invaded, and it's full of faggot Californians.

It's shit. Filled with Spics AND Poojeets- the worst combination possible.

>>508157549 (OP)
Because it's in Texas.

>>508158086
>admitting that you couldn’t make it in Los Angeles
It's 2025, LA is not as desirable of a place as it used to be. For one it's full of foreigners and Hollywood isn't a big deal anymore. Austin has worse weather, but the nature is arguably better because while there's less spots, the flora is much more interesting. They're completely different cities really, it's a dumb comparison

>>508158615
what was that mall they had to close down in the late 2000s, because it was overrun with niggers?
and like, when there was some yearly state event that brought a whole bunch of blacks into town, they would literally close the mall for the duration of the event just because they were doing so much damage
I went there some time in the year before it closed, not knowing any of its history or demographics, and I was immediately appalled at how sketchy all the patrons were. (this was a few years before I started to get redpilled)

reminder that the last housing downturn started in texas/florida too
and same exact excuses were used "lol it's texas/florida, of course it's dumping"

>>508159302
It's exaggerated but some tech companies relocated to Texas from California specifically because of the real estate market. The taxes in the two states are wildly different, which makes Texas competitive.

I think Austin really is as presented in real estate. There's areas in Austin that are very expensive, but the areas that are not expensive are not that far away from the expensive places. Los Angeles is different, and other HOL areas in that you can't even drive an hour to comparable prices that Austin residents can get by being on the edge.

Texas is not California or Florida either, I don't associate it with beaches and tropical weather in the same way, but I do associate it with hot weather.

>>508157549 (OP)
Imagine paying that much money to live in a landlocked, non-walkable city, with mid weather and no beaches nearby. Americans have such absolute garbage trash taste in cities, total fucking retards.

>>508159524
I don't remember the name of the mall, but I know they converted a mall into a community college branch. I remember shopping there when I lived there ages ago, it was pretty dead
>>508159566
I'm pretty sure they always start in Florida, at least in part

>>508158086
>When building houses, they just went and sprawled it,
This is the reason. People like being in places worth being in, and sprawl ain't it. When there's a sudden bumrush somewhere, it seems like the developers all think it's magic dirt, like people are going for the smell or something. Property prices spike in cool places. Suburbs and sprawl are nowhere, no matter where they are.

>>508157549 (OP)
I prefer Corpus over Austin desu

theyre moving to boise

>>508159716
found it, Highland Mall
https://www.austinchronicle.com/news/2009-04-10/764651/

>>508159690
and I think you'll continue to see companies move to Texas or at least have an office there. The main issue I've heard is that you can't recreate Silicon Valley, which makes sense. I think the main appeals of Austin are city life with close nature, blue city in a red state, tons of live music, and houses that aren't retardly expensive. California has beaches, lots of nature, great weather, tech, a lot of variety for events / entertainment but there's just so many downsides to the state that I couldn't see myself living there for more than a short period unless I was loaded

>>508159912
this
they want a stable white conservative community that they can "save" and didn't realize how many based hispanics that won't take their shit live in texas

>>508159707
>that much money
you can buy a house outside downtown Austin for less than 300k right now, and small apartments can be found sub 1k

>>508157549 (OP)
It was driven by people fleeing from COVID policies in California and New York, same as Florida.
>>508159787
What makes a place cool and what kind of things ruin it, in your opinion? I always thought it was driven primarily by industry and that lots of trendy neighborhoods lose their attractiveness when immigrants and transplants move in, which disrupts the existing community. These areas don’t usually actually become much cheaper unless crime rates rise, though.

>>508160076
Yea- was in San Antonia recently and it seemed full of based Hispanics

>>508157549 (OP)
if you consciously decide to move to texas, you deserve the suffering coming your way

>>508160042
yeah, it's a branch of the Austin Community College now
>>508160076
>based hispanics
total meme. most hispanics are not deep thinking people and at best are normie conservatives who have no clue what today's major problems are
and this idea about "not taking shit" is also just total fluff bullshit with no basis

>>508160076
It’s the opposite. Liberals everywhere choose to live in more racially homogenous areas because that’s where the impact of their policies haven’t landed yet (alternative explanation being economic activity spurs migration leading to ethnic diversity and it’s the people with some money who choose to leave; but the stories I hear are usually about getting priced out of California due to being poor, not retiring to Texas due to being rich; I’m not really sure which is reflective of reality).

>>508157549 (OP)
Just left Austin. Boring place, cali transplants, illegals, masonic police. Corporations own the entire city pretty much. Somehow ends up being worse than Houston insofar as the city council being completely paid and owned by corporations, but in complete denial to cater to the old hippy trippy crowd...typical NIMBY type shit. At least Houston doesn't pretend to be something its not. Also the cities immediately surrounding Austin all hate Austin, lol.

>>508160076
>>508160253
Latinos aren’t based.

>>508160404
also skyline still sucks compared to los angeles's

ITT: transplants complaining about how there is no community, before they pick up and move somewhere else thereby repeating the cycle

>>508160357
American Hispanics are unironically really stupid in general. Like not even to be offensive, but like, generally, they have low critical thinking.

>>508157549 (OP)
Why would you ask this kind of question? Are you on the city's board or something?

>>508160404
Is it still crawling with homeless too?

>>508160866
they come from countries with 80-90 average iq and the ones that are coming over illegally are likely average at best. they're okay people, but increasing the amount of sub 100 iq people is naturally going to lead to worse conditions. I would argue that 100 iq shouldn't even be the standard because that's still pretty dumb for how complex the world is today

>>508160866
Now why could that be?

It's little Los Gangeles, who the fuck wants to live in another LA?

>>508157549 (OP)
California Republicans are still trying to move there, or as they are known in Texas: liberals

>>508160369
so basically they move out of left wing areas because they're too poor or not poor enough?

>>508160956
its an autistic thing.
people fantasize about moving somewhere then they use the internet to do the thinking for them. it is sort of the inbetween between googling shit and having AI answers. gen zers all do it and it is retarded.
this is the same shit they do with guns, religion, anything. why do your own thinking when you have keyboard warriors to think for you.
that's how it starts anyways it quickly devolves into getting addicted to the attention.
OP probably asks a dozen such questions per day, this is his idea of a try hard, high quality thread
beside it has 15 other threads open with shit like "thoughts on x?"
a mindless blob with no sense of self.

America is just moving around white people. There is no actual white population growth anymore. So when the white population in one area grows, it's just because the white population in another area is decreasing. This is the big issue that America is running into. It's productive population isn't actually growing.

>>508157549 (OP)
Lefty faggots realized they can't just take over a capital and shit up a whole state.
Now they're focusing on the pnw.

>>508161277
My contention is that they get priced out of California (i.e. they are poor), but I think the conventional thinking is that they bring money and cause housing prices to rise significantly more than other immigrants with lower income levels. This is same thing that blacks complain about when whites move into their neighborhood. I don’t know which is true, but I suspect it’s that most of them are actually poor by Californian standards.

>>508157549 (OP)
They have a spic la Raza district attorney that let's killers out without bond, fuck Texas it's nothing but a criminal shitskin playground.

>>508157549 (OP)
not just austin. housing market is tanking everywhere

>>508161530
they bring money alright.
>oh boy new life, a new job, new places to eat
then they get cattle migrated to somewhere else until the final destination of retirement community

you're assuming rational free actors and also norm of sedentary residence, neither of which are true in the case of goy cattle

also poor people spend lots of money, that's why they're fucking poor. they do in fact bring money and then they spend it all in splurges on overpriced goyslop

goyslop food, goyslop housing, goyslop entertainment, goyslop education. whatever it is they will buy it, at premium prices

>>508161530
they move in en masse, vote for shitty policies that make things more expensive for whites but cheaper for niggers (low income minority housing paid for by whites and banning enforcement of laws against those minorities)

>>508157549 (OP)
Vancouver used to be the dream destination of every hot female in the rest of Canada. Now it's fucked. Opiate addicts, zillions of chinks, and billions of shitrags. It's a horrible city filled with horrible people. And it sucks badly.

>>508163985
So where is everyone going?god knows the east coast along with the interior is just as fucked.

>>508159787
>>Suburbs are nowhere.

True but where is there someplace that isn't "nowhere" now. Big cities have this stupid ecosystem of trendy night spots, clothing stores to be a denzien of a trendy night spot, restaurants for people living in stacked up apartment barracks and jobs in big office towers so you can make the money to rent, dress up, eat overpriced restaurant pig slop and hang out on faggoty watering holes.

The music sucks
The movies suck
The bookstores suck
The hip clothes suck
The restaurants suck
The traffic on big super highways from suburbs into town suck
Niggers suck
Realtors suck

>>508164053

In BC all the people I grew up with from 58 to 71 in HS have all sold their houses and fled to the Okanagan, Penticton, Kelowna, Vernon, Peachland etcOsoyoos if nothing else to flee the incessant torrential black rains.

>>508158086
Dallas is gay (except for Ft worth) and Houston is too humid.

>>508164445
I hear you.I’m saving up to get around to those areas too.I like Kamloops too but it’s incredible how jeeted these towns are rapidly becoming too.

> dude just move to a state that taxes property out the ass and has 100 days over 100 and private toll roads owned by the saudis and a comically incompetent government that still treats weed like it's heroin even if you're white and by the way is majority nonwhite
10 years ago, maybe