Why Are People Leaving Austin Texas? | The Truth!

Why Are People Leaving Austin Texas? | The Truth! Are you hearing rumors about people leaving Austin Texas? Some of it may be true but there are just things people tend to miss when they move to Austin. In this video, Know what are the reasons people leave Austin Texas so you'll also know if you can take these things before moving to Austin Texas.

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[lakeratatouille]

Hey everyone from California, welcome to Texas. This summer is going to rock your world. If you'd like to move ill help you pack.

[ericvulgate]

Austin was great thirty years ago.
You could rent a little house a few blocks from downtown for four hundred bucks and there was endless free parking under the highway.
It was great for walking there was a lot to see.
I spent a lot of time skateboarding around sixth street with my friends.

[Metalmirq]

There is absolutely no reason to move to this city anymore. EVERYTHING that made Austin what it is, is completely gone now.

[shenmisheshou]

Austin has lost its soul. The things that used to make Austin special are all mostly gone now. What makes often attractive is that there are tens of thousands of very high paying jobs. No one moves to Austin to work in low tech. They come for Tesla, Google, Apple, Oracle, University of Texas (which is actually the largest employer in Austin but does not show up that way because those lists are usually just private industry, and a married couple of professors just became new neighbors, moving from Pennsylvania to teach at UT). It is the jobs that bring people to Austin, not the weather.

[davidglad]

No mention of the homeless people? I live in San Antonio, which is "homeless lite" compared to the numbers you see all over the place in "little California." The ones in Austin clearly look like they've given up: One was even sleeping mere feet from where my parents parked downtown when we visited the city and checked out one of the museums. I don't think the cost of living fully explains that. I don't have anything against Austin. It's certainly a unique place to visit, but luckily for anyone feeling crowded there I would not want to live there and to the folks on stuck i35, I have scarcely traveled that corridor.

[polonium]

Get rid of the left-wing lunatics on the City Council and the Travis County Commissioners Court, and Austin might become a city worth moving to.

[CupidsCrackhouse]

green hair die has gotten so expensive here in Austin 🤣

[nunyabidness]

I know what you mean about not recognizing the place. I was born and raised in Austin and lived there my first 40 years, moving away about the time you moved there (around 2000). When I left there were no toll roads in Austin - not one! When I come back for a visit, I can't even find roads or businesses I am familiar with.
You didn't mention the major problem with the homeless slugs that are everywhere now, trying their best to turn Austin into San Francisco.
You did mention the cause of everything wrong with Austin though. It was "blue dot in a red ocean". Back in the 60's and 70's, Austin was a bit weird because of the hippies and the college kids, but for the most part it was filled with real Texans with only some freaks down around The Drag and some downtown areas. Since the blue people started to run the local government beginning with Max and those idiots, it has slowly progressed into the madness it is now. I hope the hardcore Dems love it there, because what Austin is now is their baby.

[pondafit]

No mention of the increase in crime nor the growing homeless population - interesting...

[zacg]

Austin was always good as a funky small town with entertaining things to do. It was a town that did fine with people visiting or vacationing, but couldn’t handle people moving here. It’s been destroyed by the overwhelming population boom, that destroyed the culture and the attractions.

[cynthiawanek]

Austin is changing to the new California, homeless, drugs, high prices and all.

[Ted_James]

Interesting that when you talk about I-35 being heavily congested, you show a scene of South Congress on an easy day. The real I-35 can be horrific. We have rush hours on Sundays even. Fifteen minutes to get to downtown from Cedar Park? When, at 3am? Have you driven on 183 at rush hour? Honestly, the traffic sucks any time of the day or night.

Re: Live Music Capital, There are still countless local bands, songwriters, DJs, etc., and you can have your pick on any given night. Touring bands will always play here because it's such a big market. If you're thinking of moving here to become a musician and make it big, forget it. You will not make a living playing gigs in local bars and restaurants and you will not get a record deal playing local gigs. That said, there has never been and never will be a shortage of live music in and around Austin. Forget about what the media says about 6th Street. It's not worth the hassle to go downtown to see shows. There are better venues, usually with free parking, in other parts of town.

[okalejandro]

We moved to Austin in 2018 this place is BORING isn’t a bad place to live BUT boring as F

[RonaldSaylor]

DON’T MOVE TO AUSTIN!!! I moved to Austin in 1971 to attend the University of Texas. The city was a paradise. Imagine this: 250, 000 population with 50, 000 college students and the main employers in the city were the University of Texas and a state government controlled by Democrats. We were the ‘liberal’ oasis inside of conservative Texas. Rents were cheap. I rented my first apartment for $200 per month. There was lots of live music, restaurants, and other fun things to do. People were easy-going, welcoming, and friendly. Traffic was quite reasonable. Rush hour lasted about 30 minutes. You could be the only car on a major thoroughfare. For me it was the perfect city—small enough to get around and escape but big enough to provide everything you needed.

Now just the opposite is the case. The population of Austin is pushing 1, 000, 000 and the entire metro-population is almost 2, 500, 000. We are still struggling to get by on the road system that was largely in place when I moved here, and all the modern improvements to the road system turn out to be toll roads. We have a continuous rush hour that never stops. It can take hours to get to and from work and going anywhere between 7 o’clock in the morning until about 8 or 9 o’clock at night can be a very aggravating experience. Don’t think that public transportation will offer relief. Expect public transportation to take twice as long because the buses are stuck in the same traffic as the cars and giant ‘man’ trucks. That’s why drivers in Austin drive very aggressively and are angry all the time. Housing is very expensive and continues to go up. My friends that rent are paying $1700 to $1800 per month for one bedroom apartments. Soon their rents will be above $2000 per month. Wages are low. After all, Texas is a ‘right to work’ southern state. If you don’t have an elite high-tech job, expect to live in poverty. Live entertainment still exists but expect to be packed in like sardines and driving for hours in heavy traffic to get there and later to escape. Austin’s ‘liberality’ is eroding in a very hateful and draconian state.

So, don’t expect to be welcomed if you move here. People trapped in a city that doesn’t work for them with no relief in sight resent the people that move here and just make things worse.

[AdiLope]

The city is mostly college stidents. Do not retire there. Humidity is horrible.1xtremely small bd rm almost 2, 000. The traffic is horrible.landscape has changed due to high teck enterprise. Great place to live 30years ago. I moved away and
Plan to never go back.

[BNaturalStudios]

Left Austin in early 2000s. It was already starting to suck. It was an awesome hippy college town. South Congress was lined with taxidermists. Small, local business predominant.

[freddymclain]

too many Mexicans, Guatemalans, you name it.

[bonnie]

I'm a native Texan and I pray that things will become more normal as far as the cost of living I love Texas I don't want to see it all fall apart.

[emaleejimenez]

I’ve lived in so many cities and Austin comes in second as worst city I’ve lived in. Baltimore beats it

[pwu]

Austin, Texas, won Texas Monthly 2023 Bum Steer of the Year. It's the allergy capital of the world, in the middle of nowhere, and yet a 1000 square foot home sold for $700, 000. It is the 11th most populous city in the U.S., with 4th worst traffic congestion. It's at least 3 hours from any coast, and 8 hours from a sizeable mountain. One good attraction - Lake Travis, if you don't mind crowd.