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Austin, Texas is a city that has been on the rise for years. It’s been mentioned in so many articles and blogs over the past few years, it seems like everyone is talking about this city.
Austin has lately received a lot of national attention, and there’s a lot that the national press doesn’t seem to get. The New York Times, for example, published an article on how Austin ‘become one of the least affordable places in the country.’ That isn’t a mystery at all (they pin it on too many people moving to Austin, and not enough housing supply but never ask why). Zoning restrictions, like in many other places, limit growing the supply of homes where people desire to reside, thereby pricing people out.
However, the trend of companies relocating to Austin precedes Elon Musk and Tesla, with Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Samsung, and Google joining long-time significant employers Dell, Whole Foods, the IRS, and UT Austin.
Austin is less expensive and simpler to administer than the highly taxed and regulated state of California, as well as less expensive and warmer than New York. And it’s still a location that New Yorkers and Californians want to call home. I was born in New York and attended college in California.
Jon Stewart presented his program from Austin in a series called “South By South Mess” shortly after I arrived to Austin in 2014, and they dispatched a journalist to the border to explore the immigration situation. The reporter was researching immigration into Austin from the side of the road.
Locals were questioned, and one said, “Austin is nothing like it was when I arrived here six days ago.”
There were three things people complained about in Austin when I came here for a change and a new quality of life after 18 years in the Washington, DC area, and each one was an upgrade for me over the Capital Region.
- Real estate prices are quite high. For Texas, it was too costly.
- Traffic. Although the city has grown, no one had ever been at the 270 spur on I-495 at 5 p.m. on a Thursday. (Let alone on the Long Island Expressway Eastbound on a warm Friday evening.)
- In the summer, it’s hot. Summers in Central Texas are hot, but Austin isn’t Houston. It’s not near the ocean, and there’s no humidity as in Houston. I had to leave a property that was practically constructed on a marsh. I’d rather have 100 degrees with 90% humidity than 95 degrees and 90% humidity.
And those were the ‘terrible things’ about Austin; I hadn’t yet discussed the positive aspects. I came here for the first time on a barbeque pilgrimage. Summer Hull (Mommy Points from The Points Guy) and her husband hosted us for supper on our first night in town, and we had a great time. We knew they did meat well here, but we had no clue that although there were only a few genuinely world-class restaurants, practically every one of them was above average.
Come here and you’ll find plenty of delicious cuisine. Kemuri Testsuya, El Naranjo, Foreign & Domestic, Lenoir, Dai Due, Clark’s, Lambert’s, La Barbecue, Odd Duck and Sour Duck, and Loro are among the restaurants you should visit.
When Donald Trump fans predicted that if Hillary Clinton won, there would be “taco trucks on every corner,” I felt like I got a vision into our collective future, and it was magnificent.
Austin is recognized for its music; the airport has live music, and it is dubbed “the live music capital of the world.” However, we discovered that music was just a minor part of the creative environment here, and we had just as much fun with the experimental theater.
We continued returning to Austin for trips, seeking for things that we didn’t like about it. We increased our speed and returned on a monthly basis. We opted to relocate since there were no warning signs.
I spent two weeks after I moved here trying to find out how to acquire a business license. I couldn’t discover anything about it. It never occurred to me that this was due to the fact that I didn’t need one.
Because I had advertising money on my website while I resided in Arlington, Virginia, I required a business license. To receive it, I had to physically walk down to the county offices. But first, I needed to have a parking plan authorized. Before they would accept my form and money and give me a license, I actually had to sketch my vehicle in my parking slot in my building’s subterranean garage and have it stamped.
Austin isn’t simply Austin; it’s also a part of the state of Texas. Those two things have a difficult cohabitation at times, yet they also benefit from one other. When I first came in 2014, Austin was a cosmopolitan city with a tight downtown that I often likened to San Francisco. However, being in Texas provides administrative advantages. No company permits are required, there is no state income tax, and there are strict speed restrictions. It has some of the most onerous occupational licensing standards in the country. However, it was a liberal city with a laissez-faire attitude.
I’ve lived here long enough, almost eight years, to no longer be considered an outsider. I’m no longer one of the strangers invading the city, expecting to be caught on camera by Jon Stewart. People have been ‘discovering Austin’ in waves throughout the years. During the epidemic, this accelerated.
Austin had a lot of tech employment when I arrived here, but not a lot of tech money. That is no longer the case. Range Rovers have been supplanted with Teslas in wealthy regions and top eateries. As house prices climbed in the middle of the past decade, I believed I’d lost the window of home affordability. My present property was purchased four years ago, and according to Refin, it has appreciated by 80%.
Austin isn’t without flaws. It still lacks the quality Southeast Asian cuisine seen in Houston. It brags about its progressivism since it’s one of the most gentrified areas you’ll come across. While voting to evict the destitute from ugly camps, it portrays itself as caring. During the epidemic, it voted for a new rail system despite the fact that it lacked the density to justify rail.
When I initially arrived, the city was underappreciated. It’s most likely no longer underrated, but rather appropriately regarded. Although it’s fair to ask whether Austin has jumped the shark a little when American Airlines Chief Revenue Officer Vasu Raja refers to Austin as his “love language.”
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