This is where Austin is headed. This is long but a must watch.

austin is there bro

Add Portland to the list.

It really is sad to see the decline of Austin the past 15 years. People that like Austin tend to downplay the problems with Horse blinders. Go on their way. Citizens that don't take action are the problem.

I was thinking about this the other day and it really made me sad. Austin's "Keep Austin beautiful" city-wide litter avoidance campaign and attitude in the 1980s, when contrasted to the 180 degree attitude of "Trash out whatever you want, with no consequences", today. Austin used to be an amazing place to call home and people from here, were proud of it.

I don't know any who are proud, anymore. I now try to avoid the eyesore of a city as often as I can. It's not going to get better. I only see it getting worse. I cannot believe I am considering leaving the area in the next 5 years. That is hard for me to admit, as I have a lot of ancestry in the Northwest Austin, Round Rock, Cedar Park, Leander area going back to the early 1830s. But it is not something I want to be subjected to any longer.

The millions of imports from other states, with no major identity in the area, could care less what happens to Austin, or to Texas. That's the sad part to me. Our culture of hard work, self-sacrifice, integrity, friendliness, and decency, is being washed out.

I hope something changes. But if you look at who is repeatedly being voted into office in Austin, you can see where many of the problems stem from.

Leftist seem to revel in filth and mediocrity, and they definitely vote for policies that bring both about, and sonehow have the ignorant gall to feel sanctimonious about it also.

The liberalness of Austin always made it an interesting and unique place in the center of conservative Texas, but the nutball ideologues in power now aren't your freedom loving 60's hippies any longer. They're resentful, hostile, authoritarian, and supremely arrogant, and they idealize places that are collapsing under poorly thought out, perhaps well meaning, but still damage inducing policies.

Fwiw, Austin has a long way to before it Portlandia's itself. Gregorio Casar is just about there though.

MouthBQ98 said:

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Fwiw, Austin has a long way to before it Portlandia's itself. Gregorio Casar is just about there though.

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Casar, a graduate with a degree in politics from Virginia, having never worked for a private company in his adult life, would push for universal income and a socialist state if he thought he could get away with it today. I wouldn't be surprised to seem him float that **** in 5-10 years when he runs for mayor.

Get votes from people with handouts and free stuff. Works pretty well.