It’s great that Austin is this growing city but it’s basically just turning into a massive sprawl like LA without the beaches.

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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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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been here since 2013...it is too crowded to fully enjoy this place unless you live very near or in downtown (or in a cool neighborhood) imo

getting in a car to go somewhere sucks, and most of the good restaurants/bars are LA-levels of crowded during peak times...

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Yeah, it's true. This is why I moved to 6th Street (on the east side). The city is unbelievably congested.