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Turfspanker wrote:

TDDude wrote:
Anyway, Austin has just about the most expensive real estate and the worst traffic in all of Texas. There still isn't an East West thouroghfare through that town. All this can be laid directly at the feet of the '80's liberalism that I had the good misfortune to witness.

Austin still has good restaraunts though.

I've only been in Austin about 10 years and I'm not letting the libs run me out.
I ain't leave'in - I prefer to stay and fight the good fight.

You are right about everything except the traffic. It's gotten worse over the years, but I'd much rather drive in heavy traffic here than in Houston or Dallas.

As far as Alamo is concerned - If they don't have a valid sign up front, I'm going in carrying. If they do have a valid sign, they are losing about $100 every 2-3 weeks from me. That's their choice, and frankly a bad business decision if they do. I don't worry too much about the interior of Alamo, but I do worry about the parking lots.

It's not so much that I got "run out" so much that salaries and housing in Houston are sooooo much better.

After moving out my salary (take home pay) almost doubled and I was able to purchase a 3300 sq. foot home for the same price that my 1300 sq. foot Pflugerville home cost. I have large Oak trees and 75' pine trees in my front yard. I can do without the pines but the shade keeps my electric bill under $400 in the summer. I live in a very nice part on the Northwest side and my wife stays home and raises/homeshcools the 3 kids. In Austin, it was a couple of front yard stick trees, two jobs & daycare just to pay the bills.

Austin is a very nice place but if one has a family and wants mom to raise the kids, Austin can be a very tough place.

Houston does have a lot of traffic but Houston has ROADS!!!. With very few exceptions, there are several ways to get anywhere in Houston so if one rout is blocked for some reason, simply choose another.

Didn't mean to hijack anything.

Let's go shooting!!

Kalrog wrote:

TDDude wrote:Don't you guys realize that Austin is the liberal armpit of Texas?

Get used to it or move.

It's as simple as that.

That was helpful. Especially when we have already mentioned several other AUSTIN locations of the same business that are NOT posted. The one that is posted is dang near in Cedar Park, not the downtown Austin of the other locations. And Cedar Park / Williamson County is not known for being liberal.

Although if liberal were to be correctly interpreted, what this Alamo location is doing is most certainly NOT liberal. Too bad words don't mean what words mean anymore...at least not in the political arena.

Perhaps my earlier comment was a bit harsh.

I lived in Austin for 20 years, from 1978 to 1998. I moved to Houston 10 years ago.
During that time, Austin was run by liberals (various mayors & city councils) who thought that if they just ignored growth, ignored the explosive real estate boom, the explosive high tech boom, stick their collective heads in the sand and ignore the infrastructure needs and allow any manner of "Liberal" trick around to stop any type of infrastructure improvement, the growth and expansion would simply go away.

I remember that for any type of highway construction that was needed, some tree hugging idiot would find some obscure bug, get some Carter appointee type judge to declare it endangered, and hold up whatever important project that was underway. This of course is an oversimplification of the 20 years that I was there but it was really more a rule than an exception. I remember parts of the South Mopac project around the Circle C Ranch area sitting idle for more than a year while all the bare earth that was excavated sat fallow during all that time creating all manner of erosion issues in the area.

They moved the airport and it took a couple years or so before they got around to even starting to building an adequate road to the airport. I guess the cab companies loved the wait. At least the proposal to move the airport to Manor failed. All those city council cronies who speculated on all that unused Manor farmland lost their collective shirts.

Granted, I've been gone 10 years but if it's not that way anymore, it's only because that generation of idiots has finally retired or died and wiser heads have taken over.

I really doubt that's the case since I've heard that Austin is attempting to take over the major traffic arteries and turn them into toll roads instead of taking the transportation issue head on. It would be a typical "Liberal" move to take a road that tax payers have already paid for and then make them pay for it again.

Anyway, Austin has just about the most expensive real estate and the worst traffic in all of Texas. There still isn't an East West thouroghfare through that town. All this can be laid directly at the feet of the '80's liberalism that I had the good misfortune to witness.

Austin still has good restaraunts though.

I can continue, but this is a Gun forum and not a political one.

Let's go shoot something!!!

Don't you guys realize that Austin is the liberal armpit of Texas?

Get used to it or move.

It's as simple as that.