I love it when recent transplants complain about tech bros as a recent phenomenon. "Tech bros moved in since 2012/2018/2020 (pick an arbitrary number) and ruined my Austin."
Meanwhile in 1984...
https://archive.ph/aDlHj
It's a pretty cool article read through the lens of 1984. Funny to read Bobby Rain Inman's comments about land prices being inflated in 1984 and "...Things won’t explode in the next twenty-four months. Land prices in the Austin area may go back down.”
This is a gem, though...
The city most often accused of dropping the high-tech ball is Houston. As Inman and others have testified, Houston didn’t even enter the competition for MCC. Mayor Kathy Whitmire promised during her reelection campaign last fall to attract high-tech industry to the city. So far the only response has been from the Cynergy Corporation, which works on special-effects technology for movies. It plans a headquarters in Friendswood. Many in the industry feel that Houston is simply too big, too crowded, too expensive, and too just plain ugly to compete for high-tech companies. Besides lacking adequate streets, sewers, and police protection, Houston has none of the hills, lakes, and other natural amenities that bless Austin. In fact, high tech may have more to offer Houston than Houston has to offer it.