Posted on 02/13/2018 12:29:27 PM PST by bgill
what a stupid article based on an absurd premise. Where do these clowns come from and how do they get ‘air time’?
An interesting comparison would be average rent to average income. A person making $18.00 per hour is not paying average rent.
Just another dumb liberal trying to get more money into a segment of the population that is not earned. Thereby the liberal can buy votes with someone else’s money.
I am in favor of anything that reduces the number of leftards from Dumbfuckistan invading the sacred soil of Texas, up to and including lethal force. I lived in Austin in the eighties when the dotcommies swarmed over the border, reinforcing the native dementiacrats in their leftist lunacy, making Travis county nearly unlivable, and bidding up the price of housing because they couldn’t understand why it was so “cheap”. I say, put a bounty on them like we used to have on the other rabid pox upon rural Texas, coyotes, $50 an ear sounds about right.
I can’t find a job in Austin that will allow me to pay all my bills. Just have to select which ones get paid that month.
Yep. I remember not too long ago when Taylor was a small rural town. It’s astonishing how many homes are jammed in around it now.
How much would rent drop if over 10 million people left who are not supposed to be here?
When I delivered pizzas from about ‘86-89 I made $12-14/hr with tips and commission. Inflation adjusted that was about $50/hr now. The key to that was to get a crap car you knew ran well and know how to fix/maintain it. My go to vehicles were a ‘76 B210 and a ‘72 510 wagon (Datsuns, I had 4 total, plus 3 other cars). I paid $100 for the B210, got it to pass safety for about $12 more and made that back in tips the first week. Got 35 mpg to boot and that was with me usually tapping it out like it was an IMSA car.
Probably easily, the kicker is that most of them probably work for employers that keep them under 30 hours (or whatever it is) a week so they don’t have to put them on an insurance plan or be full time.
If you get the hours in a good restaurant you’re going to make bank unless you have the personality of a democrat...
So waitresses in Texas can *easily* make $100,000 per year? The cooks down there must make 300K...Easy.
Wowza..
No, the ratios it puts foreward are very much fake.
My grandfather was a mechanical and petroleum engineer with a career that began in the nineteen twenties. He had a little book in his library about how to lie with statistics. The book fascinated me, and I have gone on to read numerous books on the topic across the decades.
One factor (near the beginning in almost all books and articles on the topic) is to use averages rather than the median.
Especially with parameters as widely variable as income.
So, while the general gist of the article may be correct, the degree to which it is or is not correct is skewed by their methodology. I would bet that the median income in Austin is substantially lower than the average, while the median cost of housing might not be as far.
Don’t trust a source that only gives you averages. It is too easy to massage the data.
My comment was based on my own observations, not in response to any statistical details in the article. I don’t need them for anecdotal comments like the one I made. I have lived here since 88.
The city planners are allowing the building of apartments at a furious rate due to the housing shortage and that is stretching local resources beyond tolerance. My own neighborhood shops and schools are way over capacity and the growth has been violently explosive in the last few years. The area is nearly unrecognizable from one year to the next.
Our property value has skyrocketed in recent years due to houses selling to people from California who are comfortable paying a lot more than the Austin market was previously commanding. Houses often get multiple offers as soon as they go on the market and sell for above asking price, sometimes within hours.
Property taxes are confiscatory. Dan Patrick, Lt Governor, has a commercial running about that right now.
The traffic is dysfunctional due in part to our City Council’s decision to cram as many people as possible into as small of a land mass as possible and provide them with only public transportation. They are “encouraging” us to go along with their idea to ditch our cars by doing as few highway improvements as as they can get by with and dragging out the red tape of the process, including bogus endangered species studies, for a length of time that defies reality.
Native Austinites are moving out because they can no longer afford to live here. Retirees on fixed incomes are being driven out because of the property taxes.
I could go on, especially about the rotten mess that inhabits city hall. Statistics might lie, but I know what I see and that is real.
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