Wife and I are in TX for a few days traveling around enjoying ourselves. Been stopping at some boot makers getting measured for some new boots. Started in abilene and on over to our favorite town, San Angelo. We have never been to Austin, so after leaving San Antonio we thought we would stop in Austin. A boot store called Heritage boots on south congress street. As soon after parking we began to notice This did not look like a Tx town we had ecer been to. Freaks and hippy looking folks everywhere. Flip flops, tats and piercings. Folks hassling me for money for what the hell ever causes. My goodness, I felt as if I had left TX and been transported to Berkley, CA.
We went in to boot store and quickly left and got back into interstate.
Got to say I truly enjoy TX, but this place aint't TX, and you all can have it. From now on we will co centrate our time west of Abilene!!

Austin is good for live music and restaurants . . . and not a whole lot more than that.

And it's not as good for that as it used to be.

Brent:
That's pretty much what most Texans think about Austin as well.

but, Brent, try San Antonio, Houston, even the Valley. Nowhere near the same. Austin is a liberal island.

You must not have wasted an hour watching "Austin City Limits" on public TV lately.

The flotsam and jetsom of humanity have commandeered the area. Think of it as the nouveau Billing, MT, or Eugene, OR.

I think every SF stoner that is not in prison, a mental institution, or OD'ed (dead) moved to Eugene in the mid-seventies.

Ditto all of the above. Avoid Austin, unlike most Texas cities & communities.

That is 'Billings' Montana, not 'Billing'. Wonder who was smoking weed? Hahahaha....

Austin really ain't Texas anymore......sorta like the San Francisco of the Middle U.S......


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Originally posted by lavaca:
but, Brent, try San Antonio, Houston, even the Valley. Nowhere near the same. Austin is a liberal island.

Yeah i will. Only passed thru san antonio twice. Really dont like big places. I truly love west TX. Big rim rock red canyons. Favortie place is canyons in northern panhandle, mYne palo verde canyon.
Will not be back to austin
Traffic from South of Austin til wY north of Waco was stop and go. Friday night 5-7 pm

We use Austin for an insane asylum.

Austin ain't right. It's sad there were once cool things there, but the hippies took over. Beautiful country, but not good for much more than hiking and boating, if the lakes have water.

I must admit Dallas isn't far behind.

Well, unlike most, IF (a very big IF) one could eliminate the horrible traffic congestion, I like Austin. I'm not very fond of the general political leanings but partly due to the University of Texas with its 60,000 plus students, Austin has more going on, more interesting events, more great restaurants (among them nationally and internationally reknowned sushi and Q joints), and more interesting people than almost ANY city of it's size anywhere. Of course, "interesting" doesn't mean someone is going to like all the parts, but that's life. I would politely suggest that some people need to get out of their comfort zone from time to time and that includes myself.

I just read a statistic that the downtown Austin zip code has more bars per capita than anywhere in the US. That alone is a good reason to like the place.

Gato is right. And there are more events at UT that are open to the public than you could ever find time for. And the scenery on Guadalupe is unrivaled. But the place is weirdo intensive, if that bothers you.

Um, any and all 'scenery' in Texas put together does not equal a fa*t in a hurricane compared to Crater Lake in Oregon. 'If I owned Texas and Hell I would rent out Texas and live in Hell' - General William Tecumseh Sherman.

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Originally posted by Shootshellz:
Um, any and all 'scenery' in Texas put together does not equal a fa*t in a hurricane compared to Crater Lake in Oregon. 'If I owned Texas and Hell I would rent out Texas and live in Hell' - General William Tecumseh Sherman.

Sherman can suck it.

Shootshellz
Different kind of scenery. Austin natives will know what I mean.