Jump to content

We’reTexas

Certifiably Surly
  • Posts

    951
  • Joined

  • Last visited

Posts posted by We’reTexas

  1. 2 hours ago, squib said:

    Headed to Greece in the morning for a bit over two weeks for job. Have work stuff in the mornings but done everyday by noon. First week in Athens. Staying in Plaka. I am sure it will be mega crowded--and that aint my bag. Any recs on places to eat/drink that might not be so touristy? I have dropped some pins on a google map for Tapfield and The Clumsies.  Still looking for restaurants. And if I hit up a beach in Athens, which one (or two) should it be?  Thanks for any help. 

    I liked the Clumsiest. Baba au Rum as well. 

    • Hook 'Em 1
  2. 2 hours ago, Gil Bang said:

    I just took a look at the MLS.   Palm Springs has 30 active listings under $300,000.  All condos, of course. 

    For Single Family Homes, there are a dozen under $500,000.  Highest active listing is 12,900,000.  

     

    I was going to say, there are plenty of SFHs under $1M considering the median price on a house in the state is like $750k, but then I realized what a bizarre statement that is to a Texan audience. To CR this thread, fuck the 50+ years of NIMBYism that have left most current and future Californians a generation of renters. Austinites should pay attention. 

    • Hook 'Em 1
    • Rage+1 3
  3. 11 minutes ago, safe sex said:

    Question for you CA residents: is there such a thing as a queer friendly town/city in CA that has a modest CoL?

    Guerneville is the Gay Riviera. Obviously Palm Springs but IDK about modest COL anymore. 
     

    21 minutes ago, YChang said:

    If I could afford it… it would be Santa Barbara. Number 2 and this would probably shock most of y’all but I absolutely loved living in the Rockridge neighborhood in Oakland where it borders Berkeley. 

    Not at all. Have you been in the hood recently?

  4. 17 minutes ago, HonkeyVape said:

     

    Career-wise, it's hard to live in SD if you are serious about your career and are not in a) Life Sciences b) Military/Federal work and/or work at Qualcomm? I don't know I just get the sense that there isn't a critical mass of much else and from some of the consultants I've worked with in the Big 4 and Tier-2 firms that during COVID-19 moved from major markets (NY & Boston) to SD, their career path / personal brand / visibility has suffered. 

    So in that way it's the Dallas of California if you remember the book Liar's Poker and how being put on the team in Dallas was such a demotion like being sent to Career Siberia.

    Oh, I wasn’t trashing the city. You know how during the bar/restaurant boom in the 2010s so many Dallas places tried following national trends like farm to table, craft cocktails, etc but just couldn’t resist their inner $30k-millionaire to make it a little nightclub-y? My wife and I had the simultaneous realization that San Diego is just like that while watching the Kettle Exchange staff fist pump in unison to pounding bass on a Sunday afternoon (great spot for drinks btw). 

    • Hook 'Em 2
    • Haha 1
  5. 1 hour ago, Pato del Muerto said:

    Wireless didn’t work overnight, woke up to dead phone. 

    My apt doesn’t have ac. But I won’t be there when it’s “hot” during weekdays and it’s only a few days at a time.  
     

    anywho, just mowed the back yard and taking a break before heading to the front.  Last one for a good while. Already  annoyingly warm and sunny outside.  At least half of it is dormant already. 

    Buy a portable. You’ll be less than gruntled when it’s 82 in you bedroom at 2 am. 

    • Hook 'Em 1
  6. On 6/26/2023 at 11:03 AM, TwiceHorn said:

    I think after you have seen more of it, you will begin to see it as a bigger thing than a cop show with some interesting characters.

    I think being "warned" that season 2 represents a shift, instead of having to cope with the "wtf," maybe slows down that realization for some.

    Yep, the Wire is a story about the modern American city, with the drug war as the friction point underpinning the narrative (think I’m actually stealing David Simon’s words). What makes it so great is that the characters and storylines all represent broader social arguments but are nonetheless compelling in their own right. Where Treme failed, IMO. 

    • Hook 'Em 3
    • Like 1
  7. 38 minutes ago, fattyflattie said:

    Because people understand that wanting to live in a very expensive city may not be in the cards for someone who’s “worth” is $10/hr.  It’s the reason commutes and shithole parts of cities exist.    There is nothing to be alarmed about.  Roommates still exist. Colleges still exist.  Get a roommate or an education and your inability to afford Austin disappears.   

    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. 

     

    38 minutes ago, ChickenSandwich said:

    Austin wont Up-Zone their way to “affordable” housing. The suburbs have cheap land and offer the best ave to affordable housing. 
     

    WFH, better distance transit and cooperation will lead to the most affordable available housing in the shortest amount of time. 

    https://luskin.ucla.edu/upzoning-alone-wont-solve-housing-crisis-manville-says

    Density Makes Housing Less Affordable, Not More

    https://www.cato.org/commentary/density-makes-housing-less-affordable-not-more

     

    We have land. Use it. 

    Ok boomer. 

    • Haha 1
  8. 2 hours ago, fattyflattie said:

    If you’re asking if I’d rather live around $7 hour employees or spend an extra 15 mins in a grocery line, I believe that’s a pretty easy answer.  “Making it out the hood” isn’t a thing/saying for no reason.  

    I don’t understand your police example. Police are largely paid well enough to live in their general area.  Teachers maybe a better example, but if you paid them enough to live in any given locale, you’d have gobs of more qualified people replacing them in short order in the desirable areas  

    The problem is we have too many people who are only qualified to do work that teenagers can also accomplish.  It’s hard to plan for someone whose 30 and doesn’t have any discernible skills worth paying more than $15 hr. 

    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. 

  9. 44 minutes ago, fattyflattie said:

    There are no servers in SF, or NYC?Funny thing, I remember eating and bars being tended every time I’ve been.  What are y’all doing with all the empty restaurants and hotels?

    Rent is only worth what someone will pay.  Sorry not sorry, but flipping a burger is apparently worth $12 an hour in Austin. I’m looking for the joke everyone loves when O&G is hurting.  Oh yeah, learn to code? 

    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. 

    • Hook 'Em 2
  10. 15 minutes ago, fattyflattie said:

    The same people that do it in other expensive cities?   Somehow it just works there, but not Austin?  

    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. 

    • Hook 'Em 5
  11. 12 minutes ago, Cap33 said:

    Kara Swisher had Lawrence Wright on her podcast during SXSW, and they talked about the influx of SF/Silicon Valley and all the ways Austin has changed rapidly. Despite our new neighbors' saying how they know damn well how they ruined SF and vowing to do better in their new city, they just can't help themselves because of their unwillingness to do one fucking thing that doesn't benefit their net worth. So the cycle will continue. 

    And FWIW, my kid gets $12 at a Sno-Cone stand when she decides to work. 

    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. 

    • Hook 'Em 1
  12. 27 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

     

    EDIT: I think a Dem CA governor could be elected President. Newsom's biggest problem is that he was the SF mayor. That's different since even liberal Dems struggle to explain SF.

    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. 

    • Hook 'Em 1
  13. 12 minutes ago, YChang said:

    Reminds me of the bay area a few years back when they had all the wild fires raging. Felt like I was walking around on another planet in a sci-fi movie. 

    Orange day 2020 was one of the weirder times of a weird year. 
    62136081117__52F62EFA-880A-4ADE-9BCC-A7AB249957FD.thumb.jpeg.dca1528b48a736be082a6f69aa62b9cc.jpeg

    • Hook 'Em 1
  14. 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. 

  15. 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. 

    • Haha 4
×
×
  • Create New...