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Said just about everyone who's ever lived anywhere at any point in time.

• wavefunction 13y ago
  Minorities and artists, and the poor are getting priced out of the city and abandoning the "Live Music Capital of the World" for friendlier and cheaper climes. But don't let the facts get in the way of your snark.
  • dmix 13y ago
    That's literally been said about every big cultural city in the world. Berlin, nyc, sf, Toronto... Gentrification in Austin is not at all unique.
  • famousactress 13y ago
    Who's avoiding facts? The facts are that this happens constantly. Places change, sometimes for the better and sometimes for the worse.. which is always a matter of individual perspective. The only constant is that expecting conditions to never change in any material way remains a very poor bet.
  • wavefunction 13y ago
    The facts are that the cultural character of the city, "live music" is getting pushed out by the same people touting that as a reason to move here. They move here from SFC and NYC and then set about trying to change all the things that supposedly drew them here. Whatever, y'all are right, and I shouldn't have expressed my view that the things y'all think are here are not in fact here.