I’ve got people recanting their testimony and others releasing their suppressed for years angst at their hometown of Austin but I’m a troll, bro? Look, it’s your choice to make your city what it is. We are simply telling you what it’s become. If we had our druthers we’d wish it to be the grandiosity that you think it is. Of course we want a picturesque city in an amazing climate with a demographic of singles and young professionals to be the can’t-miss metropolis it should be. What you think, bro?
Yes, braddah. Get it all out. You’ll feel better after doing so. It’s healthy. I feel your pain. My only question is why you’d throw salt on your wounds by going to NY. At least you weren’t an all-out masochist and go to Jerz.
Trust that no judgements were made by me. They are mere assessments over time, a social study with many subjects, if you will. All judgements were on part of the supercool neo-Austinites. Full truth with what you speak of West Village. Starbucks aka “The Runway” is fine eye candy. However, vapid conversations abound. A girl there once asked where I was from. Following my reply, she commented, “Boston…is that in Chicago?” True story. Her male counterpart had the Uptown uniform on (striped button-down shirt). Dallas is a hell of a place in total, though. Recession-proof economics, major sports (not soccer – see the Denver blog comments) everywhere you look, happy people in most places, and great weather most days. Progressive, big city mindset. It’s inviting and empowering to all.
Stereotyping like your peer Austinites are you? Dallas in hardly without shortcoming, nuisance, or annoyance if its own. Every place has room for improvement as well as redeeming features. Dallas is a melting pot of people from all over the country who’ve relocated. It’s a “big pond” mindset opposed to Austin’s largely provincial stance. You will quickly be left behind in Dallas if you strut with too much swagger, and that check and balance of a big place keeps it modest. Let’s face it – today’s Austin is wearing out the coattails of the “ATX” of yesteryear. It’s lost its own identity and culture in the process and is no longer grassroots, but now a facade of depth it once had yet now lacks. I’d like nothing more than to say great things about Austin after the duration of time I spent there – the weather is amazing as are the views and scenery, there is still a warmth and authenticity to some old school people who are more concerned with keeping it real than keeping it weird, and it’s a superb venue for creativity and entrepreneurialism. However, when it becomes a regularity that people you don’t even know hear you talk from the periphery and then approach you with ridicule on behalf of the ignorant stereotypes that exist regarding your region of origin, the judgmental epidemic overshadows anything else positive in the environment. People don’t remember what you said, what you did, or what you looked like; they remember how you made them feel. Today’s Austin can have a tendency to leave a poor taste in the minds of people who were excited to give it an optimistic chance then several second chances, only to be disappointment by the superficial vibe.
Bro, the haters are still in Austin and sitting on W. 6th Street waiting to judge and criticize the next outsider they come across. Your town is a farce.
Bro, there’s nothing “major” about soccer other than it being a major waste of time to spectate a game that has a 90-minute clock yet often ends in a scoreless tie. Don’t get your Umbro shorts in a bunch from us haters. Oh yeah, you’re town’s American football team has a big game on Sunday, or so I hear. GOOOOOOAAAAAALLLLLL!!!!!!
But the per capita body weight in that city has got to be well in excess of the already overweight America. Not sure where anyone else is looking or through what complimentary lens, but there are quite a few women sponsored by Hefty.
As for the “active” nature of the commoners, why should they stay inside when it’s sunny 316 days a year and 78 to 84 degrees on many winter days? Just because you’re on a kickball team, or ultimate frisbee team, or [insert token fake sport team here] doesn’t mean you’re at the pinnacle of fitness or even healthy. Heck, many of these cats are carrying their jersey in one hand and a sixer of Tecate in the other.
And then you’ll be like the rest of the lemmings. But your friends back home might think you’re so outgoing and cool! So you might have to move there after all.
Austin, you can enjoy always coming in as runner-up to the superior Dallas. You’re not half as cool as you like to think, and may have actually been before you bastardized and sold yourself out. Peace out, 512!
Sincerely,
Unimpressed
BTW – This site is pretty decent. Keep up the good work.
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I’ve got people recanting their testimony and others releasing their suppressed for years angst at their hometown of Austin but I’m a troll, bro? Look, it’s your choice to make your city what it is. We are simply telling you what it’s become. If we had our druthers we’d wish it to be the grandiosity that you think it is. Of course we want a picturesque city in an amazing climate with a demographic of singles and young professionals to be the can’t-miss metropolis it should be. What you think, bro?
Yes, braddah. Get it all out. You’ll feel better after doing so. It’s healthy. I feel your pain. My only question is why you’d throw salt on your wounds by going to NY. At least you weren’t an all-out masochist and go to Jerz.
I’m gonna go out on a limb and use the words: For. The. Win.
So when do you want to hear what men are really thinking during sex? Was totally serious about this weekend, too.
Trust that no judgements were made by me. They are mere assessments over time, a social study with many subjects, if you will. All judgements were on part of the supercool neo-Austinites. Full truth with what you speak of West Village. Starbucks aka “The Runway” is fine eye candy. However, vapid conversations abound. A girl there once asked where I was from. Following my reply, she commented, “Boston…is that in Chicago?” True story. Her male counterpart had the Uptown uniform on (striped button-down shirt). Dallas is a hell of a place in total, though. Recession-proof economics, major sports (not soccer – see the Denver blog comments) everywhere you look, happy people in most places, and great weather most days. Progressive, big city mindset. It’s inviting and empowering to all.
Y’all sick of that queso yet?
Stereotyping like your peer Austinites are you? Dallas in hardly without shortcoming, nuisance, or annoyance if its own. Every place has room for improvement as well as redeeming features. Dallas is a melting pot of people from all over the country who’ve relocated. It’s a “big pond” mindset opposed to Austin’s largely provincial stance. You will quickly be left behind in Dallas if you strut with too much swagger, and that check and balance of a big place keeps it modest. Let’s face it – today’s Austin is wearing out the coattails of the “ATX” of yesteryear. It’s lost its own identity and culture in the process and is no longer grassroots, but now a facade of depth it once had yet now lacks. I’d like nothing more than to say great things about Austin after the duration of time I spent there – the weather is amazing as are the views and scenery, there is still a warmth and authenticity to some old school people who are more concerned with keeping it real than keeping it weird, and it’s a superb venue for creativity and entrepreneurialism. However, when it becomes a regularity that people you don’t even know hear you talk from the periphery and then approach you with ridicule on behalf of the ignorant stereotypes that exist regarding your region of origin, the judgmental epidemic overshadows anything else positive in the environment. People don’t remember what you said, what you did, or what you looked like; they remember how you made them feel. Today’s Austin can have a tendency to leave a poor taste in the minds of people who were excited to give it an optimistic chance then several second chances, only to be disappointment by the superficial vibe.
Bro, the haters are still in Austin and sitting on W. 6th Street waiting to judge and criticize the next outsider they come across. Your town is a farce.
Hey author girl, you got plans this weekend? We should meet up.
Bro, there’s nothing “major” about soccer other than it being a major waste of time to spectate a game that has a 90-minute clock yet often ends in a scoreless tie. Don’t get your Umbro shorts in a bunch from us haters. Oh yeah, you’re town’s American football team has a big game on Sunday, or so I hear. GOOOOOOAAAAAALLLLLL!!!!!!
But the per capita body weight in that city has got to be well in excess of the already overweight America. Not sure where anyone else is looking or through what complimentary lens, but there are quite a few women sponsored by Hefty.
As for the “active” nature of the commoners, why should they stay inside when it’s sunny 316 days a year and 78 to 84 degrees on many winter days? Just because you’re on a kickball team, or ultimate frisbee team, or [insert token fake sport team here] doesn’t mean you’re at the pinnacle of fitness or even healthy. Heck, many of these cats are carrying their jersey in one hand and a sixer of Tecate in the other.
CA doesn’t want these rejects back. The genuinely cool people of SoCal (there are plenty) were pleased when they left the first time.
Yeah, as in “every neighborhood”.
And then you’ll be like the rest of the lemmings. But your friends back home might think you’re so outgoing and cool! So you might have to move there after all.
Fake liberals, bro. Watch their actions instead of listening to their words. Very tight-laced.
There’s a fair amount of accuracy to several of the points in the article. It basically surmises the truths that Austin is:
1. Overpopulated
2. Overrated
3. Low on driving IQ
4. One big tourist gimmick (Salt Lick, E. 6th, W. 6th, dead live music, floating the river, cupcakes sold out of Airstreams, cliché t-shirts that make you look stupid not weird, and other super-conformist failed attempts at non-conformity)
5. Full of ethnocentric west coast transplants that claim open-mindedness yet have judged the crap out of you before you even talk to them
6. Not the Austin of 10-20 years ago that you’re friends who’ve never been there say “I hear that’s a really cool and laid back place!”
7. Full of worthless booze joints on E. 6th
8. Loaded with crap food
9. Loaded with never-will-be musicians that aren’t worth listening to (and a small handful of amazing ones)
10. Home to a worthless festival of never-will-be’s (SXSW) and a great fall festival (ACL) that’s filthy after the first day
Austin, you can enjoy always coming in as runner-up to the superior Dallas. You’re not half as cool as you like to think, and may have actually been before you bastardized and sold yourself out. Peace out, 512!
Sincerely,
Unimpressed
BTW – This site is pretty decent. Keep up the good work.