Austin, Texas is basking in its status as one of America’s most popular cities. NBC News’ Lester Holt takes us to one neighborhood where at least six families on one block moved to Austin from out of state over the last year.
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I see all the homeless people from California moved to Austin as well.
yeah, that is over. They reversed the ordinances here a few months ago. The mayor was smart, he brought the homeless out of the woods for a year, forcing the businesses and state gov’t to take the homeless problem serious, and now they have the funding and the homeless problem disappeared.
There was only one homeless person in the video
Now it’s illegal to camp out in the open.
@@williammaddox3339 Yeah, people often confuse mentally ill or drugged out people with homeless. Especially with the rise of K2 in Austin, a lot of these people have homes but stay out for days at a time whacked out of their brain. The camps are gone in Austin, the Mayor secured enough funding to buy a few run down motels.
They’re called democrats
I almost cry when I think about favorite “weird” places that are now closed. The day Continental Club goes, it’s over!
Agreed! I’ve been in Austin since 95’ and boy has it changed!
@@otakuConn how much time do you have??? lol
@@red2846 Do share, please! Just however much you’d like to write for us internet folks interested in Austin 🙂
@@red2846 Yes. I definitely agree. I got here in 94 and now sound like an old time resident. They closed Liberty Lunch downtown the year I moved here. I feel sorry for the folks who moved here in the last 10 years. In the last five of those, speeded up by the pandemic, Austin has lost so many if it’s iconic businesses that made Austin, Austin. Those newcomers have seen the most change to their city in the least amount of time. I don’t know how the musicians, artists and all the other creative people survive in this town with the high costs of rent and housing, let alone the average working Joe who doesn’t have a high tech job.
@@red2846 Seriously, not much at the rate this town has been booming. Still, many newcomers like Austin and don’t know what they’ve missed or what they may soon be missing. I tell new residents to enjoy Austin today because change is happening a lot faster now than in all the almost 30 years I’ve lived here.That favorite music club, local business or restaurant that you enjoyed today, may not be here tomorrow.
There’s always change.
All of the best places end up getting ruined like this. Austin now has the worst traffic in Texas.
“Much cheaper?” Not for long.
Exactly
IDK I’d say Houston traffic is still worse. Y’all got I-35 but Houston has 610, I-45, 59,99, and streets that take forever to cross like 518 and 288, Bay Area Blvd, etc. In Austin you can probably get to most places in 25 minutes. In Houston its easily 45 min to an hour.
common sense = this a good problem to have
since the construction of MoPac, traffic has only gotten worse for the past 40 years. not building out a highway or interstate Loop, which is controversial in liberal Austin, would of made a difference. DWF, Houston and even San Antonio have theirs which helps.
It’s like that in all of these popular affordable cities, Austin, Phoenix, Las Vegas, Charlotte, Atlanta and so on…. People move from other states and they keep coming year after year. The city sprawls even further out, traffic gets worse, housings and taxes go up and then it prices out the locals who grew up in that city. I left the Austin/ San Antonio area because it was growing too quick and getting more expensive. I moved to Alabama, most people don’t wanna move to Alabama and that’s great with me. Super cheap to live, nice weather, close to florida beaches, still has alot of character and culture and countryside. People are laid back and non pretentious, and I really enjoy a quiet smaller town lifestyle.
the next San Francisco
Not even close
Austin Texas couldn’t be San Francisco on it’s best day
Y Cuando lo va a A Mandar a la VERGA la gente de CLIFORNIA
The tech industry will destroy Austin just like it did to beautiful San Francisco. Great wealth also brings great despair because as prices rise, average income people will have few options. With the rising costs comes stress, anxiety and drug addiction, just like SF.
The progressive liberals destroyed major cities
It’s the next San Francisco with all their weird laws and stuff they worry about the border south worry about Californians more 😂✌🏻 RIP Austin Texas lol
Austin Texas will never be the next San Francisco
Austin locals must be cringing that Cali don’t let them come to a town near you
Huh?
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Austin TX is nice, the people make it sh!t!!!
Then it’s not nice, how can you separate a city from the people in it? You don’t move somewhere for the pretty buildings lol
Thieves everywhere. I’m not sure where this mentality came from but every other person I’ve met has a story of their property being stolen or broken into.
I’ve lived here since 1998. And from amongst myself and my family, we’ve only had my car stolen back in 2006. I’m sure it depends greatly where you live. But this thing about “thieves everywhere” is also an exaggeration.
It’s mostly a lot of small theft cases, but have had several musician friends have instruments stolen downtown. Package thieves come by almost daily, people come through my fairly nice neighborhood checking car doors almost weekly, and the community mailboxes are broken into so often that there is always a huge line at my post office to pick up mail while boxes are being replaced.
Yikes.
Uhhh ……. 25 years too late.
Homicides are up 80%… but they fail to mention that the police force was reduced by 30%. Dishonest spin and reporting from the mainstream media. No wonder American’s feel mislead and uninformed. The narrative is controlled.
Californians should stay and fix their own state instead of moving here and destroying our city, because really that is what they are doing.
Q
aint got no heart just money and bleeding hearts gtfoh
I hope they will grow in 2027
Cool city but so many people are moving there. They need to expand the highways.
Expanding the highways will just make the traffic worse. What Austin needs is a better public transportation network. There needs to be more than one option to get around the city.
Sucks for the locals if you wanted to buy a house you have been priced out. 🤣
Just buy a condo near the downtown. 🏠 was an obsession of the previous generations.
i went to UT from1987-91. Austin is ruined. Most of the people who live in Austin dont really belong there.
Californians can bring their money but don’t vote Liberal. Remember why you left your state. Don’t California my Texas.
Its just a matter of time until Texas will be unaffordable to their native residents, same thing with California difference is it just happened earlier
I’m moving to Austin very soon January 2022 from San Antonio.
I love Austin I’m Vegan and there are lots of options in Austin.
Me too minus the vegan!
Californication of Texas
Just don’t turn it into a dump, Californians. 😒
It will become AustAngeles or San Francaustin – housing prices will rise, so will tech salaries, etc.
But have they tried DMT?
The traffic on the I-35 is so awful that I can’t imagine how much worse it’ll get in 5 years
I-30 does not go anywhere near Austin as it runs West to East through DFW. You mean I 35.
@@rhntx yeah you’re right I moved to Dallas recently and got the two mixed up
@@yungabilify Hopefully we will see less car-centric city planning in the future.
@@raucousraptor There’s definitely an appeal. I see so many people walking on grass “sidewalks” and jaywalking on the streets of Dallas. It’s kind of ridiculous, even for a car owner like myself. I wanted to buy a bicycle but my neighborhood is definitely not oriented towards that
they need to build more high density condos closer to the city instead of spreading out with soulless suburb copy paste single family houses….
🤣 what a joke
i’m thinking of moving to austin from los angeles but i’m worried that it’s going to be too quaint. I need high energy rock venues and don’t want to be around any conservabros that will probably try to steal my pregnant wife away from me. Should i still do it?
The city has turned into a WOKE San Francisco
It could never be a San Francisco
What made Austin attractive is disappearing. It’s a paradox of nice places, they never last. As soon as people discover a nice place, everyone rushes in and ruins what made it nice in the first place.
Exactly what happened to California, once it was the typical wild western state until people back east flocked there in droves in the early 20th century. Texas is destined to be the next California its just a matter of time
True. Florida was like that.
Austin is overhyped, overpriced and overcrowded. How about showing the families displaced by the rising costs here and the decreasing diversity due to the “affordable” homes for out of staters.
Why are people so obsessed with diversity?
stop making texas another California
It is not growth, it is an invasion of new Yorkers and californians bringing their commie politics with them that destroyed their states.
All good commies make 250k a year and drive teslas
Business & growth–that’s what it’s all about. California’s entrenched elites have destroyed the Golden State & are driving people–particular low & middle income–out to Nevada, Texas, Florida, Idaho, & elsewhere.
😯 ” NOTHING SHORT OF AMAZING!…. Unquestionably, Austin TX is ‘ on a roll ‘ and only time will tell for how long. How often has The U.S. seen these boom-and-bust regional scenarios wherein one big metro becomes the ‘ it place ‘ to be. There’s a massive influx of new economic and population growth resulting in dramatic prosperity, for a myriad of reasons, only to eventually lose it’s luster and fall out of favor. Why? Because of the more often than not difficult burden of meeting and sustaining the explosive growth, displacement, and other socioeconomic issues that can’t be easily address or resolved like in the past. For the moment, Austin’s on ‘ everybody’s lips ‘ in a good way. But only time will tell for how long. Hopefully, it will ‘ buck the odds ‘ . “
Im moving there from San Antonio…Wish me Luck…Skill and Fortune 🙂
Austin has been a boom town for years. From the late 90s all through the 2000s the city has been popular and growing. After the recession it just accelerated and now during the pandemic it has become insane. So glad I bought my home back in 2012 when it was only a third of the price it is today.
Austin is a white flight city, I would say that was when it first boomed
@@jzamo1990 I agree with you!
Houston
I love living in Austin 🤍
Ooh really which part in Austin you live?
Do NOT vote. for. democrats.
Look how the main stream media show the minority in an apartment complex instead of a house like the other 2 families that moved. lol
The people I know in California either hate or are scared of Texas. So their solution? overcrowd Austin!?
People have wanted this for a while. They wanted to move out of expensive states like California into more affordable states like Texas, but they couldn’t because their employer required them to work physically at their hometown. But this new work from home lifestyle has proven to be California’s nail in the coffin, because as I said earlier, a lot of people have been waiting for this kind of opportunity. And for those middle to upper middle class neighborhoods in LA or SF, I’m gonna be very surprised if they aren’t devoid of people in 5-10 years.
There is a lot of instate movement too here in CA. Lots of silicon valley folks are flocking down to San Diego which itself is very expensive but much less so than the Bay Area.
California’s coffin has been it’s [radical] leftist liberal politics and politicians.
@@malcorub I lived in Lodi from 1999-2002. At that time homeowners in the Bay Area were selling run-of-the-mill, 3br/2bath homes for $600k-$850k. They moved to central valley towns and cities such as Sacramento, Stockton, Merced, and Tracy. Where they bought beautiful homes for $250-300k and pocketed the rest of the money from their initial sale. The trade off was a nightmare commute where former Bay Area citizens but still workers did not have a life Monday through Friday.
That’s BS Texas is not friendly in reality
Hope they don’t bring their democratic views to the red state Texas
Oh well, guess I’m moving to San Antonio.
As Austin continues to grow more leaders like JeVon McCormick are needed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFZayjAG0ug
california socialist have destroy the black community in california!
Yall check out boom town charlotte next
I grew up in Houston TX and always noticed people from expensive places moving in. I lived all over CA for a few years and I totally see why. It’s a gorgeous state but that comes with a premium and living there full time keeps you way too busy to keep up. I made twice as much out there as I would in TX but it still didn’t help. And I suppose if you have a family to support, it’s even harder. Eventually they have no choice but to settle for Texas. More space for less money. But I find the culture of Texas pretty boring compared to California. Weather is too humid/rainy to really wanna be outside much so you spend a lot of time inside a house or car. California always had me at the beach or forest, simply experiencing nature without breaking a sweat. And Californians are much more chill for the most part which I like but others prefer the staunch conservativeness of Texans which is fine. Colorado is a nice middle ground for me, personally. Wishing all my fellow Americans prosperity and acceptance wherever they decide to set roots! I know it is hard
Rich people
Low taxes…. HAHAHAHAHA!!! Lets be clear… low taxes for business. Property taxes are much higher here. I moved here from Seattle and pay double in property taxes at 3%.
Coming from France, I’ve always considered moving to Silicon Valley for tech business. Now that Apple and Musk are reaching to Austin, and considering how cool life seems there, I’ll probably change my plans.
people from texas love paying taxes . texas is the word taxes in Spanish
stupid dems
Hate these California’s moving to Texas making it liberal
Uhhhh…Austin has been very liberal WAY before California’s started moving there in mass numbers. Check your facts
Austin new slogan “Keep Austin Pricey” and turn it into the next San Francisco
Low taxes only means the working class pay for it.
austin is a progressive city in a coservative state and that has helped creating an environment open to everyone. you don’t get that in blue states lately 🙁
Dont California my Texas!!
Austin was great to live with less population about 10-15 years ago. Less crime, less traffic, less Californians
@Jon In SLO we know….
@Jon In SLO not to worry. The high crime will chase you out in 10-15 years time.
notice how all the republicans in the video but they move to austin which is the most liberal city in texas LMAO!
Who doesn’t want Austin ? People enjoy the beach.
If only Austin wasn’t in Texas…
Austin has always a progressive bastion in a conservative state. It’s a good balance of both. The university attract students from all over the world, keeping Austin diverse. Traffic and housing costs are the down side. Not perfect, but what is.
They are trying to escape California and would prefer to live in places like Martha’s Vinyard but Austin is a good compromise
“Progressive”!!! Yeah we’re seeing how much progress it’s making! Everyone loves open violence and needles on the floor
@@daysofgrace7818 I didn’t say I agreed with it. I just want to paint an accurate picture of Austin as I know it.
@@artisaprimus6306 I meant no offence, however the term “progressive” is the most misleading and patronising political term I’ve come across. It gives the impression people who are “progressive” are enlightened and whose policies will make the world a better place!! It’s very obvious that not the case!!
@@daysofgrace7818 no argument here. Liberals used it as a way to rebranding. Progressive sounds like they are forward thinking. Remember the Democratic party created the Klan in 1865 after the war
That’s some big houses
Where’s TRIBE Headquarters!
Have You Seen My Esports Headquarters!
I wish all these Californians would just move to Colorado
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Arrest prince what an ugly guitar shaped building like a shoe.
Austin sucks now. No one should pay anything to live there.
To hot 🥵 citys
Austin, TX 💯💯💯
Happy they are able to “do their lively hood” there.
News outlets love to talk about Austin, but this is literally going on in every Texas major City!
Dallas, San Antonio, Houston and Fort Worth have all grown exponentially.
DONT CALIFORNIA MY TEXAS!!!!!
Why do all these people moving here have to have a dog? We got people running up and down every street and a bunch of dummies swimming in town lake. It used to be against city ordinance to swim in it because it’s dirty and underwater currents and hydrilla and stuff.
Turning Texas into the new California. Its only a matter of time.
Austin and Texas unfortunately is becoming too Liberal, and I fear someday it may become another California.
Austin is becoming liberal? Dear you’re late to the party. Austin has been very liberal for a long time. …thank goodness
Austin is dead and gone.
summers are insanely hot
That goes for ALL of Texas
It may be awesome that Austin is growing and all that all these people moving there are bringing more crime and trashing the city they have reported more trash and dumping on the streets and trash in the waterways around Austin since all these people have been moving there
Progressive policies have literally ran all the black people out of the east side and out of the city.
They decided on Austin because they see the pop demographics are less than 10% of black 🤣
Austin Tx because no vaccine mandates
There were mandates
My cousins are living there…
I hate it here and I want out! Traffic is the worst I have ever seen. I shouldn’t be in fear of losing my life driving 3 miles to work. It is out of control. Road rage is at it’s worse.
Or losing your job
I spent a week in Austin. It was a good city. But I think it is really overrated HOMOGENEOUS
It’s SERIOUSLY overrated
Blue state vs Red state. You see in your own eyes. Still people keep voting blue
if its growth based on debt then its not growth. its a ponzi scheme.
What they may fail to understand is the out-of-staters can’t just go to Texas with their left-wing or centre-left ways, they’ll have to convert to Texas’ familiar brand of conservative, Christian ideas in order to survive. Sure you’ve got money and a job but can you comply with the culture down there, that’ll get you kicked out in a heartbeat?
As a Texan Austin is less Texas more California that is the reason i don’t like it that much but the landscape and city looks great