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We’reTexas

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  1. Again, totally irrelevant. Low wage workers in HCOL cities don’t live there - they commute to work there, from very long distances, because that’s where wages are. And many have stopped, leading to labor shortages. Ok boomer.
  2. What on earth are you talking about? All I’m saying is that Austin’s affordability crisis is going to have significant impacts on its economy and that moral arguments about housing are irrelevant. I can’t speak for NYC but one of the first things you understand living in SF is how many people essential workers (especially police) have 2+ commutes and are constantly in shortage. This is going to be a generational issue and it’s bizarre there’s not more alarm about it.
  3. Actually, in SF quite a few restaurants began pivoting to the counter-service model due the labor shortage, and this was pre-pandemic. The labor shortage resulting from housing crisis has resulted in a very distorted economy in HCOL areas for some time, not to mention retaining teachers, police officers and fire fighters. I’m not directing this at you, but the “not everyone deserves in X” argument is totally besides the point and quite tone-deaf. Annoyed only one of ten grocery aisles has a checker or a police officer won’t show up for a car break in? Stop blocking housing. Edit: also want to mention students. Something like 5% of UC students are homeless or housing insecure at some point, which is insane. Something absolutely has to be done for UT student housing.
  4. It doesn’t work in other expensive cities. You have a shortage of low, or even middle wage, workers and higher prices. And these cities also rely on rent control and other tenant protections that Texas is, um, lacking in.
  5. Oh God, that Larry Wright piece. NIMBY Boomer spends fifty years fighting development in an effort to ossify their community, becoming wealthy in the process, bemoans loss of “weirdness” in their town. That’s what happened in the Bay and should sound familiar to Austinites, but that flew over his head.
  6. Now that I think about it, that’s actually quite easy for his narrative (“SF politicians try to solve national problems with local tools, which is why I went to Sacramento…”), but yes I still don’t think there’s anything he can do to overcome the generalized right wing aversion to SF.
  7. You mean fuck Japan? Sapporo bought them in 2017, this is probably part of their streamlining. I think they will keep making some Christmas Ale for the brewery.
  8. Speculation that this could be the first strike:
  9. Orange day 2020 was one of the weirder times of a weird year.
  10. N-95s when outside are helpful. I’d just stay in my office all day since I imagine that’s where the best air filtering is. Fire season sucks and they are only getting worse.
  11. Thought it would be easy to BART to the game. Train 1: Broke down. Train 2: Richard Ramirez doppelgänger walks on holding a pistol in his pants and half the train flees. Train 3: Uber. I hate Oakland.
  12. Jesus. For war correspondents that guy’s balls are exceeded only by Dana Stone and Sean Flynn.
  13. Emme ‘22 Valdigue, imo.
  14. Well great I came in hoping someone finally found bikini pics and instead got the mental image of Jerry Brown trying to get his 80 year old dick up at an orgy, thanks.
  15. Somehow fell out of my rotation. Thank you for inspiring me to close the laptop early and get a beer.
  16. Best fried chicken in the city, change my mind.
  17. Having some California cool kid Zin myself.
  18. Hell yeah. Rosalind is good people too, will be doing a tasting with her in a few weeks.
  19. Exaggerate much? This is limited to a very small part of the city. Yes, it is near the corporate hotels and yes, it is third-world bad but it should totally irrelevant to visitors unless you want awesome Vietnamese food. Get out to GGP next time.
  20. It’s people realizing they don’t have to put up with shitty public transportation infrastructure five days a week and no one going to malls anymore.
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