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However, it's been 'getting too crowded' for as long as I've been in TX (and
I'm sure, since almost the beginning). Any growth is too much when the
general feeling is leaving nature alone (and enjoy it). Problem is, allot of
people feel like that so, they just keep coming. It becomes a 'relative'
thing. Growth is unavoidable but at least in Austin, they've always tried to
do it in a responsible fashion. Those that are there to take advantage of
the 'growth' don't like all the restrictions so, on it goes. Always has been
(and hopefully always will be) a cool place.

'KEEP AUSTIN WEIRD' is one of their mantras!

Chris
99BBB

"pws" > wrote in message
...
> Grant Edwards wrote:
>
>> I've met more than one person from Texas who won't claim
>> Austinites as real Texans -- which is a bit odd, considering
>> it's the capitol. I think it may have something to do with
>> Austin being a small blue dot in a large red state.
>
> Exactly. I am guessing that 95% of the Obama signs in Texas were displayed
> in Austin.
>
> Austin votes blue, but the population is as diverse as anywhere I have
> seen.
>
> The fact that I am neither Republican nor Democrat, and neither liberal
> nor conservative makes it to where I fail to fit in politically no matter
> where I am. ;-)
>
> Austin is actually a good place for misfits like myself, it's just getting
> a little too crowded.
>
> Pat
>

Chris D'Agnolo wrote:
> However, it's been 'getting too crowded' for as long as I've been in TX
> (and I'm sure, since almost the beginning). Any growth is too much when
> the general feeling is leaving nature alone (and enjoy it). Problem is,
> allot of people feel like that so, they just keep coming. It becomes a
> 'relative' thing. Growth is unavoidable but at least in Austin, they've
> always tried to do it in a responsible fashion. Those that are there to
> take advantage of the 'growth' don't like all the restrictions so, on it
> goes. Always has been (and hopefully always will be) a cool place.
>
> 'KEEP AUSTIN WEIRD' is one of their mantras!
>
> Chris
> 99BBB


Hard to call it too cool with the massive traffic, but yeah, it has some
good points.
It's probably easier for people who have moved here in the last 15 years
or so than the longer-term residents who have watched it grow from a
quiet college town to a pretty big city.

It seems like the growth has brought a lot more negatives than
positives, at least for me.
I'm sure the developers loved it in the 1990's, there was some crazy
money moving around.

At least the weather has been fantastic, we don't usually have sunny
days in the 70's like this for this long.
Nice weather to sit around being poor. :-)

Pat

pws > wrote:

> It seems like the growth has brought a lot more negatives than
> positives, at least for me.

Ditto Phoenix, it was around 105,000 when we moved here and the
"Greater Phoenix Area" wasn't much more than that, now it's 1,500,000+,
more that 10 times what it was in 1951 and the "Greater Phoenix Area"
has increased even more, to around 4,000,000 people.

I'd move if there was anywhere to go....



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XS11E wrote:

> Ditto Phoenix, it was around 105,000 when we moved here and the
> "Greater Phoenix Area" wasn't much more than that, now it's 1,500,000+,
> more that 10 times what it was in 1951 and the "Greater Phoenix Area"
> has increased even more, to around 4,000,000 people.
>
> I'd move if there was anywhere to go....


If you want low crime, you can come on out to where I am now. It is a
laid-back lakeside community about 35 miles from Austin.
It still looks pretty nice out here and the people usually even smile at
each other. (It is still in Texas, but hey, you can't have everything).

In four years, I have still not seen even one hint of petty theft or
vandalism in the area.
When I move back to a place of crowded insanity, I need to break my
habit of leaving relatively expensive items in the unlocked car.

Pat

pws > wrote:

> XS11E wrote:
>> I'd move if there was anywhere to go....
>
>
> If you want low crime, you can come on out to where I am now. It
> is a laid-back lakeside community about 35 miles from Austin.
> It still looks pretty nice out here and the people usually even
> smile at each other. (It is still in Texas, but hey, you can't
> have everything).

I'd prefer to stay in the US.... <GD&R>

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XS11E wrote:

> I'd prefer to stay in the US.... <GD&R>

Hehe, I opened myself up for that one. Also, I like Arizona too much for
a comeback, so I give.....

I might be driving across that state of your's on the way to visit
California soon. How much longer before it gets really hot?

Pat

Sometime I should try to find the house in Austin that I was supposed to do
the stone work in, that construction got halted in the middle of. It was a
software guy who'd hit it rich in one of those dungeons and dragons types of
games and he was building a house befitting .......... that nuttiness!?
Anyway, it was a castle with a moat and a drawbridge and the interior of the
house was to rotate at slow speed all the time (don't ask me to explain
please, I'm a stone guy). Anyway, they built the super complicated
beginnings before the bottom fell out of the dot-com boom (IIRC) and it
skidded to a stop. Probably still sitting there.

Chris

"pws" > wrote in message
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> Chris D'Agnolo wrote:
>> However, it's been 'getting too crowded' for as long as I've been in TX
>> (and I'm sure, since almost the beginning). Any growth is too much when
>> the general feeling is leaving nature alone (and enjoy it). Problem is,
>> allot of people feel like that so, they just keep coming. It becomes a
>> 'relative' thing. Growth is unavoidable but at least in Austin, they've
>> always tried to do it in a responsible fashion. Those that are there to
>> take advantage of the 'growth' don't like all the restrictions so, on it
>> goes. Always has been (and hopefully always will be) a cool place.
>>
>> 'KEEP AUSTIN WEIRD' is one of their mantras!
>>
>> Chris
>> 99BBB
>
>
> Hard to call it too cool with the massive traffic, but yeah, it has some
> good points.
> It's probably easier for people who have moved here in the last 15 years
> or so than the longer-term residents who have watched it grow from a quiet
> college town to a pretty big city.
>
> It seems like the growth has brought a lot more negatives than positives,
> at least for me.
> I'm sure the developers loved it in the 1990's, there was some crazy money
> moving around.
>
> At least the weather has been fantastic, we don't usually have sunny days
> in the 70's like this for this long.
> Nice weather to sit around being poor. :-)
>
> Pat

You said allot here and Pat and I probably won't disagree with you much
there.

Chris
99BBB


> I'd prefer to stay in the US.... <GD&R>
>
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Chris D'Agnolo wrote:
> Sometime I should try to find the house in Austin that I was supposed to
> do the stone work in, that construction got halted in the middle of. It
> was a software guy who'd hit it rich in one of those dungeons and
> dragons types of games and he was building a house befitting ..........
> that nuttiness!? Anyway, it was a castle with a moat and a drawbridge
> and the interior of the house was to rotate at slow speed all the time
> (don't ask me to explain please, I'm a stone guy). Anyway, they built
> the super complicated beginnings before the bottom fell out of the
> dot-com boom (IIRC) and it skidded to a stop. Probably still sitting there.
>
> Chris

The only nutty software guy who made it rich from D&D type games in
Austin that I know of is Richard Garriott, the creator of the Ultima
series. I worked for his company between 1990 - 1993.
The company, Origin Systems, Inc., sold out to Electronic Arts in 1992,
iirc.

His house has an observatory that is a miniature of the real ones, it
rotates and was placed on a steel frame that does not touch the
structure of the house at all and actually had the house built around
it, so that winds do not shift the metal dome.
It was very cool to go up there and of course it has a huge telescope.
The house also has a dungeon and secret doorways and passages throughout.

This guy now has another house with a bed that raises through the roof
into an enclosed plexiglass viewing area.

He recently went into space on a Russian rocket at a cost of 30 million
dollars, so he found a way to make even more bucks somewhere.

I never did hear about a rotating interior, that could be someone else,
but it sure sounds like he is the one you are talking about.

I added "NMC" just in case someone thinks that we are talking about
Miatas in Austin. :-)

Pat

Nope, no disagreement here...... :-)

Top posted just for Chris........

Pat


Chris D'Agnolo wrote:
> You said allot here and Pat and I probably won't disagree with you much
> there.
>
> Chris
> 99BBB
>
>
>> I'd prefer to stay in the US.... <GD&R>
>>
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