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david murphy in the booth is awful, i'd rather have cj and he sucks bad
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i think Donnie was at the zion debut tonight that got called with the quake
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i felt that line/crowd crunch even back in 2014, just kill a lot of the fun vibe of living there. and claustrophobia is the word I'd use as well. really amazing how far away 10 miles feels in Austin compared to any other big city in Tx
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On 7/1/2019 at 11:22 PM, Bozo_Casanova said:
Uh, it certainly seems more likely than a precisely coordinated conspiracy to bring about empathy through direct experience with panhandling.
But let’s talk about that $5mm. Are you familiar with a report called "An Analysis of TCAD's Commercial Valuations for City of Austin” by George Gau?
As you may or may not know, TCAD is effectively prevented from access to accurate commercial transaction values. Gau’s report showed that as a consequence of a lack of visibility to the market TCAD typically undervalues commercial property by about half, and unimproved property by about 90% compared to actual purchase prices. So it’s entirely possible that the city isn’t overpaying at all, and even if the city overpaid by a little, it’s quite likely that the TCAD estimate is way, way low.that Gau report was from 2014 , in the 5 years since TCAD has ratcheted up commercial values substantially. of course you can pull properties that are the exception, but as of 2019 I'd say they are within 90% of market value overall. And even on those exceptions, I bet there's something going on behind the scenes on many of them that make the purchase price artificially inflated (1031 exchange/leasebacks/master lease guarantees etc) above fee simple valuation. TCAD isn't perfect by any stretch, but of the major metro CADs they and Bexar are probably the closest to true market - and we're actually at a point where recent transactions are below noticed values.
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seems more and more like the food hall is not long for this world from those articles and just seeing it in person. this city just can't support all these restaurants, just not enough expendable income/white collar employment for the yuppies who are the lifeblood of these concepts ....
the above is admittedly ass talk, but besides magnolia and a few individual spots, it seems like failure and closings outnumber success stories in a disproportionate way beyond the usual bar/restaurant failure rate
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went to crockett food hall last night, yet another vendor has shuttered in there. i just don't see how any of those guys are making money.
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55 minutes ago, 0xdeadbeef said:
Paris to Lyon is 280 miles. A high-speed train round trip ticket cost about $85, and takes an hour and 59 minutes.
Houston to Dallas is 240 miles. An airline round trip ticket is about $115 and takes an hour and 5 minutes. Slightly more expensive, half the time, but less flexible on travel times, changing tickets and buying tickets last minute.
Driving from Houston to Dallas takes about three and a half hours and $50 in gas round trip.Driving is far and away the most flexible on changing travel plans.
A big issue is how easy is it to get around once you get to the destination.I've been to Houston and Dallas on business many times and never once was my meeting anywhere near a City center. if I fly in for business I would still have to get a Rent-A-Car. It would probably be the same taking a high speed train. Maybe Uber across town might be cheaper, but taxi certainly aren't.
Advantage: Car
try $115 one way now days, those $50 one way jobs on southwest are very few and far between.
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call at least 3 different companies, also the bells/whistles of your windshield will be a big player on how expensive it is. I called a few of the big shops like safelite, they wanted something crazy like $300, called another big name and they said $225, 3rd one said $200ish. Buddy of mine gave me a rec (dfw) of some random old guy in an old ass truck who came to my office and did it for $125.
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1 hour ago, TwiceHorn said:
Aren't you from Big Spring, too? Or general area? Ryan has been amazingly successful. It's startling to me that a tax accountant could be so successful. I mean, I know it could be a nice career and founding your own shop could be a good deal, but he's got complete fuck you money now. I analogize it to being a lawyer, except, as far as I know, there's no real equivalent to contingent fee cases in tax consulting, or "taking a percentage of the deal." Maybe there is on the latter.
As a property tax veteran, contingency fees are the base fee structure, and holy hell is it a lucrative business with not much threat of lean years so long as the tax system stays relatively in place in Tx. Ryan is the 800 lb gorilla in property tax consulting on commercial property across the state, they bought out thomson reuters a few years ago who was their main competition. And they do a lot more than just property tax.
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gus is a terrible announcer, I'll die on that hill. your pxp guy is supposed to accurately describe wtf is going on to the viewer as the tv product for football cheats the viewer out of seeing the whole field.... the camera just zooms in on the ball carrier/qb so you have no idea of what's going on holistically/down field. Gus gets fired up when a RB breaks the initial LOS acting as if there's 50 yds of green grass ahead getting the viewer fired up only to have both safeties converge on the RB for a 4 yd gain. Or the qb throws a deep ball into quadruple coverage and clearly 30 yds overthrown to anybody in the stadium, gus will give it a "HE'S GOING DEEP, HE'S GOT A MANNNN!"... no you fucking idiot.
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for all the titty babying about the city needs more money from that piece of land... A) f that, the city has plenty of money they just blow it on stupid shit and B) ~60% of that land is in flood zone. There's ways around that for development I suppose but with how big of an issue flooding has become in texas metros, I have to imagine (hope?) things are a little more tricky now.
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this michigan squad looks like an MLB team, seems like damn near every guy they have goes 6-3 220
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how much?
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for the love of god get this lady off the mic
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the colin robinson background lines kill me, last night they flash him talking to a few others "there's some belief that an iphone is all you need" or something completely banal like that. just greatness.
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be ready to act fast on used 4runners, those things fly off the shelves. spent about 4 months trying to find a used one and finally said f it, bought a base model new. had it for 55K miles now and zero issues besides some roof trim coming loose. greatly appreciate the fact it doesn't have bells/whistles to f up, but do wish it had a powered lift gate.
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i want to shoot the cackling lady at the foot spa on the iphone encrypted imessage commercial
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I'm a total cookie cake whore but this ice cream is just ok. it's like a fudge brownie ice cream flavor.
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7 minutes ago, MNLonghornFUKM said:
Usually belongs in the wives thread but when someone texts you, you call them immediately, and they dont answer
If I'm in a meeting/conference type situation and can't actually talk then deal with it
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15 hours ago, I Plead Da Fif said:
Good joke, but the reality is the cost of living in Austin, even with home prices relatively speaking much higher than they were, is still one of the lowest cost of living in a desirable city to live in as a software worker. Denver has very little new construction with a lot of people moving here; a 450K house in Circle C would be at least 650-750K here in a comparable location. We’d be limited to 1600 sqft pieces of shit built in the 60’s for houses in the 400’s.
Besides, I lived in Austin for 22 years before moving to Denver for her 2 years ago. When we want to buy a house and settle down, I’ll be ready to come back home.
Unless you're putting a shit ton of cash down, run the #s on what the actual payments will be to truly calculate housing cost difference. Folks that buy in Tx the first time without rolling their out of state equity into the purchase are shocked by the property taxes' impact on monthly payment. Very rough estimate but it's worth about 125-150k of loan amount.
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I cackled at 'Sharia math'
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1 hour ago, KaiserSoze said:
I'm guessing homeboy is in Denver, which from what I hear is generally more expensive than Austin.
Maybe on pure price point but if you're talking monthly payment with property taxes I bet it's not too different.
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Collin Robinson concept is so damn genius
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Bra-fucking-vo to hate's wife, the username makes sense now
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damn i wish i had known ALL of episode 2 was about bobby bruce and i woulda skipped over that shit with a quickness. dude was and is a total power down