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10 years ago, there was a case to be made for Austin, TX really fitting this bill. However now with so many moving there from other parts of the country, it's

10 years ago, there was a case to be made for Austin, TX really fitting this bill. However now with so many moving there from other parts of the country, it's gotten crowded and more expensive. I would no longer consider it "cheap".

airhead969 6y ago
I already made that mistake. My ATX apartment complex downtown is full of introverted, fearful-avoidant, superficial, dishonest, littering, smoking, experience-devoid, ignorant/uneducated, maskless, yuppies / salespeople / "pretty people." There are a few, token chip-on-their-shoulder, elitist SJWs who believe they're entitled and special too, but they're mostly harmless. It's the general uncoolness that reeks from the tops of the buildings down to the sewers and below. Or it's the dribbles, puddles, and lines of puppy piss from the idiots who don't clean up after their shitting and peeing monsters that they let loose on the hallways rather than take the cookie-cutter mongrels out at regular intervals. It could be the stolen Whole Food carts that clog the hallways, but I don't think they smell that bad, although it does make the place look like a Section 8 flophouse. The only legit cool people, sorry, person, I've met is a teenager brother from the top floor from the other side of the building. Everyone else is just worthless: immediate upstairs neighbor is an absolute sniveling, spineless, sociopathic, control-freak cretin.. complaining about my music in the middle of the damn day on the weekend, I just turned and shut the door in his stupid face, and cranked it louder. I would like to move somewhere else ASAP. San Marcos looks cool but I don't exactly call it intellectual. I prefer somewhere intellectual, socialist, cheaper, and cool, without as much squareness, anti-intellectualism, or academia. Colorado Springs, possibly, but it didn't have time to investigate it thoroughly. I only pray to the various gods that uncool people become flammable so that a lighter can let their god sort them out in heaven, way the fuck away from me. Santa Fe is chill but not exactly inexpensive or intellectual.
- cbruns 6y ago
  Is this a Catcher in the Rye parody?
  - airhead969 6y ago
    My life is a parody of itself. As such, I should head over to CityBooks, buy a copy, shove it in my back pocket, and run off the cliff in a field for the meta-ness of it. Would that make you happy, fucking troll?
- Jtsummers 6y ago
  I find the description of Colorado Springs as socialist or cheaper odd. Maybe not a recent experience with it? The culture is very libertarian/right-leaning and heavily Evangelical Christian, though perhaps not as pervasive as in the US South. That Focus on the Family is headquartered here means that that shouldn't come as a surprise, along with the heavy military presence in the area (Schriever, Peterson, Cheyenne, USAFA, etc.) and a lot of retired military which brings back a generally more conservative and Christian culture. With respect to costs, housing prices are going up like crazy. In one year my home has gone up by nearly 20% in "value" (obvious sign of a bubble to me, maybe I can profit off of it if it lasts long enough). It's also becoming increasingly suburban as the population grows and ranches sell off to become housing developments.
- alea_iacta_est 6y ago
  I sure hope you won't move where I live...
- iamthemonster 6y ago
  Everywhere you go, there you are.

airhead969 6y ago

I already made that mistake. My ATX apartment complex downtown is full of introverted, fearful-avoidant, superficial, dishonest, littering, smoking, experience-devoid, ignorant/uneducated, maskless, yuppies / salespeople / "pretty people." There are a few, token chip-on-their-shoulder, elitist SJWs who believe they're entitled and special too, but they're mostly harmless. It's the general uncoolness that reeks from the tops of the buildings down to the sewers and below. Or it's the dribbles, puddles, and lines of puppy piss from the idiots who don't clean up after their shitting and peeing monsters that they let loose on the hallways rather than take the cookie-cutter mongrels out at regular intervals. It could be the stolen Whole Food carts that clog the hallways, but I don't think they smell that bad, although it does make the place look like a Section 8 flophouse. The only legit cool people, sorry, person, I've met is a teenager brother from the top floor from the other side of the building. Everyone else is just worthless: immediate upstairs neighbor is an absolute sniveling, spineless, sociopathic, control-freak cretin.. complaining about my music in the middle of the damn day on the weekend, I just turned and shut the door in his stupid face, and cranked it louder. I would like to move somewhere else ASAP. San Marcos looks cool but I don't exactly call it intellectual. I prefer somewhere intellectual, socialist, cheaper, and cool, without as much squareness, anti-intellectualism, or academia. Colorado Springs, possibly, but it didn't have time to investigate it thoroughly. I only pray to the various gods that uncool people become flammable so that a lighter can let their god sort them out in heaven, way the fuck away from me. Santa Fe is chill but not exactly inexpensive or intellectual.

cbruns 6y ago
Is this a Catcher in the Rye parody?
- airhead969 6y ago
  My life is a parody of itself. As such, I should head over to CityBooks, buy a copy, shove it in my back pocket, and run off the cliff in a field for the meta-ness of it. Would that make you happy, fucking troll?
Jtsummers 6y ago
I find the description of Colorado Springs as socialist or cheaper odd. Maybe not a recent experience with it? The culture is very libertarian/right-leaning and heavily Evangelical Christian, though perhaps not as pervasive as in the US South. That Focus on the Family is headquartered here means that that shouldn't come as a surprise, along with the heavy military presence in the area (Schriever, Peterson, Cheyenne, USAFA, etc.) and a lot of retired military which brings back a generally more conservative and Christian culture. With respect to costs, housing prices are going up like crazy. In one year my home has gone up by nearly 20% in "value" (obvious sign of a bubble to me, maybe I can profit off of it if it lasts long enough). It's also becoming increasingly suburban as the population grows and ranches sell off to become housing developments.
alea_iacta_est 6y ago
I sure hope you won't move where I live...
iamthemonster 6y ago
Everywhere you go, there you are.