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Oh. Are you from California? As long as you don’t California my Texas, we are cool. The hostility mostly comes from people who flee California, NY, Detroit, Chicago and other badly run cities that they’ve turned into hellholes and then come here and vote for people that have the same policies that ruined their states.
Texans are welcoming, as long as you aren’t trying to our home like you ruined yours.
There is a scale of frustration ranging from
Mild frustration due to large influx of transplants leaving places w/higher cost of living and coming in and driving prices up and locals out. This isn’t anything you or anyone can do about this. The secret is out, Austin is cool. Unfortunate that the housing prices have doubled and people who have lived here for years are now being pushed out to the outskirts but there are still a lot of cool parts of Texas 30/45 mins outside of Austin.
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Then at the extremes…
People who read too much Fox News and call California a “hellhole” and accost people at bars so they can brag about it on the truth app and get a high five from their smooth brained friends. This you REALLY can’t do anything about. But fortunately this type is few and far between in Austin and they stick to their own for the most part. You can spot them pretty easily by their lifted truck donned with the latest Trump flag.
Either way, haters gonna hate. I wouldn’t worry about it, you might get a mild grumble from time to time because someone was beat out on a home with a cash offer from someone in California but you’ll learn to embrace it and sheepishly laugh along.
Late to the party here, and appreciate that my comment is going to fall into the bucket like a drop of water. While I generally don't think it was appropriate for someone to accost you, I will say I've been to California and New York plenty of times to find myself being mocked by people who think of Texas as being filled with ignorant Trumpers, anti-abortion zealots, or whatever they were labeling people without masks.
I lived in Denver from 17-19 and saw a number of people there experience similar circumstances as ordinary natives were priced out of their city while trust fund coastals flocked the city in addition to droves of homeless. I left Denver to get away from the attitude of those elites and moved home to be closer to people with a similar worldview.
And man, did I do it just in time, like many others across the country, I saw first hand how different the Covid protocols in Texas were compared to states such as NY and CA. It was quite jarring to see the literal stress and fear that my colleagues from NYC would have as they visited our Houston or Austin offices during certain points of the pandemic. I recall several who were triple masked, and very reluctant to do anything indoors or attend any meetings. You could literally see the stress on their face despite being masked compared to the remainder of the office which was not masked at all. Of course my Texas colleagues were welcoming, didn't give them grief and even went out of their way to make sure they were comfortable. But what struck me more than anything were the people who stayed for longer than a couple of days. Because with every single one of them, you could see them slowly start to come out of their shell, slowly start to become more comfortable, and even prefer it here. Two of these colleagues have now relocated and one other brought their family and stayed for a prolonged period because their children weren't forced to wear masks wherever they went.
However, when I visited NY, CO, and CA during the pandemic did anyone go out of their way to comfort my preferences? Absolutely not. In fact, many rushed to ask me for my vaccine ID card or reminded me to put my mask back on when I got up from the table. Often these were accompanied with extremely rude remarks, and in some cases I was accosted myself. And man, I have to say, I literally have zero interest in returning to any of those places aside from mandatory work travel.
But taking it all together, the thing I appreciate most about Texas, which I think so many others are concerned will be lost, is the amount of personal freedom that is afforded to the people here. It is our decision to get a vaccine, a booster, wear a mask, mask our children. That freedom is a fundamental part of what it means to be a Texan. This state was quite literally founded by settlers who were willing to say the hell with the rest of you, we will go to Texas and start our on country. And unlike many other states, the settlers of this state fought and won their independence. That attitude is embedded in the fabric of what it means to be a Texan. And while I will always welcome someone with open arms, people moving here should appreciate that legacy. Personal freedoms are not something we take lightly, regardless of any other political stances or views. While you're entitled to your own views, you're not entitled (nor is the government entitled) to dictate to others how they will live their lives. So if you can't respect that, then, yes, I consider you just as unwelcome as anyone in these other states would consider a Texan.
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A4: I’m not sure you’ve ever been pregnant or not… I don’t want to assume, but your posts read as if coming from a man. A doctor won’t even see you at 6 weeks, because they can’t detect a heartbeat that early to determine viability. I was floored when I was pregnant. I wanted to get seen right away, but I had to wait 3 weeks. Luckily, I wanted my little one and just wanted to be sure he stuck. Rewind almost 20 yrs ago, and I was someone who needed those services. Plan B wasn’t readily available back then, and it definitely was not free. I got pregnant; had a miscarriage that I could not pass. Therefore I needed to have a D&C.
Yeah this seems like suburban behavior. I would be surprised if this happened downtown.
Also, was a lot of your conversation about California? Because yes get it you miss your hometown but like it’s strange you moved to a new place just to talk about your old place. Same thing in NYC. There’s like Texans and other meetup groups in NY and it’s like what was the point of moving here if you just surround yourself with the same people you moved away from?
People love blaming someone else for anything that threatens their “fantasy world” viewpoint. I’m sorry you experienced that kind of vile behavior, most people in Austin are welcoming and open minded. Unfortunately NIMBY and blame the newcomer thinking is sad and unavoidable pox on society. In reality people that do think like that are just speeding up their own irrelevancy.
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There’s a certain type of person we don’t like. I don’t think you’re one of them.
Yea …MA1 just the run up to your comment didn’t seem like this was going to go positively. I will say, you do have merit about the people following friends to make Austin more douchey/tik tok-ey.
Maybe a less polarizing summarization is, “ we’d like folks to come to Austin to engage in the community, learn the city and yes even make their own mark in a creative way rather than taking advantage of the cost savings and trying to remake it into [insert HCOL city]. “.