0xen 🎩
@0xen
Austin was great when it was the only liberal and cultural oasis in TX, back when that meant something. When it was a Texas-sized college town. SXSW created a reality distortion field for tourists looking for the Good Life and since then they’ve been trying to graft a tech hub on top of a place that was never suited.
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0xen 🎩
@0xen
Same with SF in many ways which partly explains why it is the way that it is these days. Shoulda done the tech thing in Sacramento or San Diego.
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LONO 🎩🐹
@lono.eth
Have been listening to this take since I moved here in 2005 and it was bullshit then and it's bullshit now... No disrespect meant. I've moved around and come back. Austin is still a place with chill people. It's still a place teeming with artists/musicians. It's just now the whole world knows about us.
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RealityCrafter
@realitycrafter.eth
I'm of the opinion that tech hubs form around areas that produce top tier software engineers. UC Berkeley and UT Austin both are consistently in the top 10 CS programs in the nation. It's easier for companies to form and gather talent in areas that the talent is already.
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Max Jackson
@mxjxn.eth
Pretty spot on. I only spent about six months there and I havent been in the 10 years, but this described it then and I can only imagine how far its slid in that direction since.
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James
@jamesstevens
Pre- Dell Austin was where it’s at.
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Paul Millerd
@pmillerd
I sense that’s mostly been abandoned. Still lots of weirdos here. Many Huberman acolytes and borderline cults haha
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Lems🎩
@lems
This person has never been to Dallas. The sprawl doesn't compare
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Beninem
@beninem
That's not quite cringe though like when Caitlin Long was pushing Wyoming being a good place for crypto startups because the gov't had legal DAO's. She said nothing about Wyoming being dumb af windyville.
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