I lived in Austin from 92-2000. Such a fun city. Young with restaurants out the wazoo but the liberalism is getting to be too much. Even for the socialist Austinites.
In 92 the city bought a dozen house boats and lined them up along Town Lake (which runs thru downtown Austin). These were for the homeless to come and go as they pleased. Drugs, rapes, robberies all went up 300% overnight in that area. You could not go near this place at anytime and it was near the convention center, a park, the running path etc. The boats lasted 2 weeks.
That’s the kind of BS they keep doing. Experimenting with irresponsible and failed ideas.
When the California nazis started moving in, it quit being a laid back, goofy place, and started becoming a politically correct, ideologically driven authoritarian city.
Old Austin joke:
How many Austinites does it take to change a light bulb?
Seven. One to change the bulb and six to talk about how great things were in the sixties.