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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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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LONO 🎩🐹
@lono.eth
And the food has gotten way, way better.
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0xen 🎩
@0xen
Hot, expensive, sprawling. More ramen restaurants tho, much culture, very progress. What’s Austin’s greatest cultural export in the last 10 years.
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downshift
@downshift.eth
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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Paul Millerd
@pmillerd
Yup. agree. Wasn’t meaning to dunk on Austin. It is what it is. Fastest growing cities in the U.S. so people like it. We should have more growing cities
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