I have to admit I gave up on Austin when ACL became super commercialized, and the Broken Spoke became completely converged upon by apartment complexes and condo builds with residents complaining of the "noise." Same with Stubb's. Many of the creatives have made their way out into areas like Wimberley and formed little cohorts for good reason. Lamar & Congress have chased out all of the eclectic shops and replaced them with mass produced "luxury" BS. I feel sad about the changes in Austin and I think it's all a damn shame. I support as many of the remaining and long term artists as I can via the Kessler, Poor David's & Longhorn Ballroom in Dallas. I, too, believe it's irreversable.

Real Texans and especially native Austinites will remember who cool and relaxed the city was 20 years ago. Now it’s a mini LA

The US is receiving a bitter pill now. Profit at all costs has dire consequences.

I would rather live next to a pink house than have an HOA

As Joni Mitchell said , they paved paradise and put up a parking lot . Austin is now just another sky scraper big gross city .

Great Video. Nearly same thing happened in Nashville. 80% was affordable middle class homes. Now thru rebuilds and remodels 80% is for $200k income earners.

Culture shift isn’t unique to Austin, it’s everywhere.

Just glad I had the chance to live in Austin for 4 years back in the 80's and experienced it back then when it was a fun and enjoyable place to live, work and play. Would not want to live or be able to afford living there now. Will remember Austin as it once was.

Austin has become like LA but with very hot weather and no mountains.

The big McMansions ruined the neighborhoods of Austin. Thanks Cali! I moved from Austin in 2020 and local music artists have not been able to live in Austin for a couple decades.

I moved to east Austin in 87 on a hill crest. We had chickens/roosters. And If climbed to my roof I could hear the dish-falk field and UT football fans from my roof top. I could easily walk or bike. to downtown, UT drag, Barton springs. I sold Austin American statement subscriptions for my afterschool job, which meant I understood each neighborhood, spoke and interacted those ppl, sometimes partied and hung out with them. Saw first hand all the weirdness of ATX B4 my 18th bday. Cranes started going up around 95, and they haven’t left. My parents cashed out and now childhood home is a two detached duplexes. Been living in cedar park for the last 15 yrs. I’m glad I’m grew up here at the very specific time period and enjoyed the last few years of ATX uniqueness.

It will never regain what it once had.

Great and informative video - concise, well filmed, well narrated! I learned more about Austin Real Estate in 6 and a half minutes than any other Austin real estate video I've seen combined - not kidding, not exaggerating. Please, continue to make fantastic content like this.

Been living in Austin since 2009! It's lost its "Keep Austin Weird" 😢 personality!!! My first apartment 2 bedrooms on 53 st I paid $700 a month now is $2600 a month!! Austin used to be full with Musicians, Artists, it has lost it "cool" 😎 factor!!! Let me real America has lost it "cool" factor 😢

I went to University at Texas State in the mid 1990s. Lived in San Marcos, Wimberley and , lived and worked in Austin until year 2000. From that time I have frequently revisited Austin and the hill country around Dripping Springs, Driftwood, Wimberley and Austin, with a long term plan of transitioning to Austin eventually. I now live in Houston. However the land prices in the Hill Country area have risen to ridiculous heights since 2020 to as much as $180,000 for one acre and I do not foresee a reduction in prices happening anytime soon. Texas is my home State, and I really like the countryside and culture in the central Texas area...however I've been to quite a number of beautiful places on this planet and those hills and hill country beauty is really quite paltry in comparison to the mountains in any US Western State, not to mention other countries in the world. Any day of the week I can pick up 10 acres for $180,000 in Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, Tahoe region California, Washington State, Oregon, Montana, northern Arizona, New Mexico not too mention North Carolina, Tennessee etc etc you get the point. Texas prices for land no longer make sense. In fact land prices across the entire lone star State oddly ratcheted up after the pandemic, even in areas that have historically been unpopulated due to the poor quality of the land such as Brewster county. I find it peculiar how acreage across the entire Lone Star State increased almost simultaneously as if it were done intentionally by one very large investor. Anyhow, paying $180,000 for an acre of scrub scratch hill country limestone that is parched of water resources, little ceder trees and pin oaks, that smolders in the blistering 100+ temps throughout the summer seems less appealing these days, especially since all of the hill country State parks and nature trails are stuffed full on any given day, can't even enjoy nature without a 60 day reservation. The mystique of the Austin hill country is being vanquished from all of the housing development. It is actually the high cost of land that has pushed housing costs upward. Austin has almost always been in a significant market growth period of economic and population expansion since I lived there. It grew significantly through the dot com era. The only time I noticed housing prices freakishly low was post 2008 financial crash. My best friend bought a repo home on lake Austin for $150k, sold it in 2011 for $375k. Homes were for sale everywhere at highly reduced prices during that time of uncertainty. It will take another significant financial crisis to bust the high price bubble in the Austin area, and with prices that high, you will see far fewer large corporate organizations relocate to the Austin hill country. May see more take flight. *Adding to this post, 2 days later: I just searched the Austin area all the way out to New Braunfels and Dripping Springs. Even at a time when real estate prices are declining due to deteriorating economic conditions in Austin from the tech slump, land owners seem to have ratcheted up land prices in recent weeks. I'm seeing 1/4 of an acre selling for as much as $100K, averaging $65K for 1/4 (.25) acres. Not large enough for a medium sized home with a driveway.

People are misinterpreting a short term correction after a giant housing rally as if it’s a long term reversal. It’s not. Austin’s population is still projected to rise by 46,000 people, even in 2024. And CA & NY are still losing population. Austin homes are like a stock that rose 40% over three years, then corrected 10% in the fourth year, while the fundamentals remain strong.

I lived in Austin from '74 - 04. It was so much fun back in the day. I remember seeing a girl riding her bicycle at 10:30 pm on 15th headed to the bar and she was decked out-dress and everything. Good times!

The middle class is gone. RIP.

A very long time ago when I was in the market for real estate in central Texas I looked around with a real estate agent named John, one day he told me he would tell me what runs the real estate market, I told him if he did I would never forget. John said "Fear and Greed". He nailed it 100%. What Austin is experiencing is a transition that happens at different rates in all urban-suburban areas. the rates of change are highly porportional to the current economy. You pick an area, do your homework, and you will get the picture. There is one constant in all areas, it will never have the character, and culture it was once cherished for, the same is true for rural areas destroyed by urban-suburban development; the Texas Hill Country is a perfect example. "You can't go home again" wrote Thomas Wolfe. Fear and Greed is always a destroyer of men, and nations.

Same thing going on in the mountain towns in Colorado. Has been for 30 years!

I lived in Austin from '82 to '90 while at UT. The seeds of what it is now where growing in the '80's. Greed has destroyed what Austin was

Austin is toast. The Golden Days were definitely pre-2002. After that, high-rise construction and crime destroyed the city imo. I left in 2004 when things got even worse. Every morning the radio station would start by announcing traffic congestion, pollution report, and the crime stats. Sad to see it happen.

The "master planned" communities look cheap and disposable, and the "non HOA" ones look more cohesive and natural I hope HOAs go by the wayside

Austin turned into New Los Angeles

I lived in Hyde Park starting in 1987. I went to graduate school and rent was $200/month in one of Minni Seay’s duplexes. Amy’s ice cream had just opened up and Dell was underway. Austin was fantastic. Visited 10 years ago and the freeways now make it look like Houston. They took a college town and made it into another Texas megaplex. If you want to live there make sure you like cedar fever.

This is why my dear old dad taught me 40 years ago that given enough time, you can't lose with residential RE: the population of the country is always growing and people have to live somewhere. The only issue I have is at the same time these "hot" places grow, places with tons of housing stock get no one. Vast areas of the Midwest with enough housing stock and existing infrastructure for a dozen Austins and nobody goes there to revitalize it, but they go to flipping Idaho and Wyoming and ruin it.

I drove up and down 35 the whole first part of my life. I remember round rock being rolling hills and mostly pasture. by 2003 it was completely filled out. more than 30 miles of development. what happened to dfw later happened to austin. debt funded growth by housing expansion bottomed out in 08 and investors got right back in and started all over again. as long as crude makes it market in us dollars , the race to the bottom could continue to depths unseen before. the industrial economy that built the united states in the last century, by which interest rates were designed to float against, is largely gone. how many more election cycles and "narratives" can come and go remains to be seen, but the real economy that laid the roads and established the cities in this country is not going to come back. technology is a contractionary force that concentrates wealth into absentee shareholders and produces forthcoming generations of fast food workers and clock punchers who are alienated from the land.

Wow you have an eye for editing. This video is top class.

Good stuff. I spent 30+ years in the ad agency business, putting me in the position of having a close-up view of a lot of different industries. The single biggest trend I saw over that time was a relentless emphasis on profitability, to the exclusion of all other considerations. I think that dynamic has seeped into all corners of our lives, and, over several decades, we are being divided into the haves and the have-nots. My wife and I have been very fortunate. But, like you, I worry about creatives and artists, who don't have the cash flow to survive. Or young families who can't afford a home. Or the middle class, for that matter, which I would suggest has been our greatest legacy as a country. Our many and greatest achievements were all born out of a thriving and growing middle class. This is a problem that goes well beyond Austin. Is it reversible? Well, being the pollyanna that my wife accuses me of being all the time, I guess the answer is yes!

Austin is a train wreck. I lived near Austin in the 1970's. We lived in a small town near by where my father was an executive for a large global company. My family would go shopping in Austin every weekend. It was a great city then, and had class. Now, it is a disjointed dump. My dad designed our house and it was built by Gaeke Construction of Giddings Texas. It was a beautiful Texas Ranch style. These new style homes don't match the neighborhoods and are a disgrace. Mental illness has taken over Austin.

I used to own two houses near Austin (Pflugerville and Round Rock) I sold my Pflugerville house cause the property taxes were killing me. 80% of the taxes were going to School district (Travis and Williamson counties) and the schools ratings were and still are just awful! What are they spending their money on!??? Austin area still has much punch, it is not so much about "Music" and "Musicians", but about industries and those still going strong.

I remember completion of the loop in the 80s and proposed development cap. I lived off west 6th and then off Lamar at Oltorf in a bamboo forest! Brodie Oaks was the brother to the og whole foods st MLK on Lamar. Wheatsville coop and Hyde Park were still growing. I student taught at Martin JH, a huge Title and Chapter funded campus. 45 7th graders in a reading class. ESL. The city was terrorized by flashers in overcoats back then. Bat watching was the trend too. I hiked and swam right there behind Brodie Oaks in Horseshoe Bend Creek. Limestone cliff jumping.

Born here in 1966. Mom sold our childhood home right at the top of the boom. It sure was a blessing for her too. She had a little bit bigger lot on lazy ln. My house is in Avery ranch and has at least tripled in value. When I retire I’m moving somewhere cold. I’m not sure I really care for Austin as much as I used to. It’s a little too much of everything nowadays. I’d like to find me a little town and check that out.

It’s sad that the community that makes Austin so vibrant (artists, musicians and performers) have been priced out of Austin. It’s becoming a different animal.

I bout a house in Austin in 1992, for $75,000- 1500 SF 3 bdrm 1 bath, on a LARGE corner lot. Zillow says it’s now worth $1.2 million! Unreal.

i lived in austin in the early-mid 80's down off ben white blvd and loved it. now it looks like san francisco with a lot less water.

Another factor in why Austin is so expensive is the decision they made in the 1980s-2000s to not increase transportation infrastructure. They opposed buses, trains, freeways, you name it. People wanted Austin to stay this city of 300k and that was never going to happen. It's like the believed the Inverse Field of Dreams Theory: If you don't build it, they won't come. Except that people still kept coming even if it meant sitting on Mopac for 3 hours a day. As a Houstonian; Austin was always a nice escape but I haven't been since 2021 because it's too painful to see what's happened to a great city. I hope Austin can resolve its problems and reinvent itself!

I personally know of people who sold their ratty homes, in central Austin, for millions. Then, they would move to; for example, a new subdivision in the northwest section of Austin. Now places like Dripping Springs are getting trashed out, and over priced. Austin was once a charming place, but now I would never move there.

As a tween, I was there in the 60s as a runaway. It was such a beautiful little game board type town ,magically dotted with old street lamps, gorgeous homes from the turn of the century up to the 20s 30’ winding roads, lush lush lawns and trees. And the music scene , was so raw the Vulcan, gas company ..The culture of Psychedelic meaning mind expansion so many of you way too young to know what I’m talking about, I never went back after the 70s except for a visit 80’s 90’s and at that time I was shocked at the change so right now even though I’m back in Texas I have not ventured into that city. But I saw some of the homes in South Austin West Austin where I stayed multi million modern structures ,sleek elegant and austere, but not Austin .. no it will never be the same , not as good, as artsy ,as promising ..it will burn itself out most likely

I spoke with a former board member of Austin & he asked me to join him for lunch next time I’m in Austin; I told him he wouldn’t catch me dead in that city. He asked why & I said the traffic (35) sucks! He laughed & said they never planned the city to be 10X population like it is now & their infrastructure can’t really handle it.

Cohesiveness is boring. I personally love the contrast.

One factor that caused this all over the country were the absurdly low interest/mortgage rates. People think there's a lot of money to be made. There is, but only before the inflation kicks in and bumps prices beyond what can be afforded. Austin was lucky enough to escape the housing bust of 2008, and also benefited from starting off with extremely low housing/rental rates in the 1980s that resulted from the 1970s oil bust. But with the low interest rates came higher prices, and the inevitable Ponzi scheme of "house flipping" that had also caused the 2008 housing bust. The high prices were all based on a lie, however. I am lucky enough to have a house in Austin, and I just watched helplessly as its appraised value went up due to nothing but rampant speculation. I could sell it, but then what? Buy an even more expensive house? Now the appraisals are falling (as they did 2009-2011), and we'll see what happens next. I'm just tired of wildly changing interest rates intended to stimulate the economy, when all they do is make people throw absurd amounts of money at houses and cars, and politicians shrug and act like they had nothing to do with the chaos that results when the boom collapses.

as a born and raised Texan i held one thing heart my 43 years of life......Austin is a nice place to visit for a weekend or to attend college by NOT to live in. Me and my Generation would go to Sixth street on weekends for the fun and night life but always came home, we would attend UT games but again would return home. If we DID work in the Austin area we would often life in areas like San Marcos or the OTHER small towns around Austin and would commute simply because the cost of living even in the late 90s and early 00's was already the most expensive in the state for a City of its SIze compared to Houston which had a more Blue Collar Feel

Folks who worship money give no f^€

Austin may be great for others, has is long past great for most people living there. Loved growing up there, havent goke back in years. Its like NYC or Vegas: looks cool in a video, but too many and the wrong types of people with infrastructure that cant handle it. 7 + years ago it would take 45 minutes to go two stoplights sometimes miles from downtown. Glad we left

Austin is what happens when your mayor and city council allow unchecked commercial developers and private equity groups free rein of the area…this has been a race to convert Austin to CA since 2010 when the mass migration first began. The Plandemic and CA’s insane lockdowns + terrible cost of living sent people here in droves. Austin’s fate has been slated for a while now. Smart folks stay in the far outskirts, or move to another state entirely. -Austin area resident for 33 yrs, remembering the glory of it from 1990-2009…

This was happening in the Bay Area for the last 50 years and is beginning to spread to the rest of the country as even tech employees are getting priced out of San Francisco. Austin has the benefit of having more relaxed laws for construction, but there are few homebuilders that would prioritize construction for low and middle income residents.

It's possible that Austin real estate will keep growing in value, but the city will never be what it was before the boom started. Most of the people I know are planning on moving away once their kids leave. Austinite for 20+ years.

They ruined everything i loved about Austin. I've lived here for 30 years and its sad how its no longer Austin

Again, exactly what we at AustinZone are saying! You're spot on and we love you for it, Charles. Is it possible to for Austin to rediscover it's awesomeness? We believe so and we're here to help!

The thing that weirds me out is who the heck is this alien species of affluent homebuyers that are able to drive all this gentrification in every city even kinda worth living in, when the median US income (individual not household) is something like $43k? You need a $150k income just to think about buying the house. Everyone says "Blackrock" but I don't think that's true, I think the US is just one country of wealthy aliens stacked on top of another different country made from poor people who can barely pay the rent, but it's technically the same country.

That doesn't even take into account the property tax situation. Not having a personal state income tax sounds great until you are retired, living at the level of income you were accustomed to, but your property value goes up and you can no longer afford the taxes.

Terrific content. Investors never learn when to get out. There’s an old saying, “You can never go home.” Austin can never return to what it was

In the Rio Grande Valley, similar escalation is happening as well. People with more money to spend than the local residents driving up prices and justifying tax increases. On one hand you can't blame them looking for a better area to live in, but on the other hand, they do have negative effects to whatever region they flee to. Something will give eventually when the amount of substantially priced homes sitting on the market outpaces the number of people who can actually afford said homes. (Or are interested in buying.)

The train has left the station. It's so bad it's reaching up to Georgetown, Liberty Hill and beyond. 4 years after the 'bug' and the drive to build is stronger than ever up here.

Great overview, thank you.

I like this guys calm demeanor. Regarding HOA’s though, you can have an asshole next to you regardless. I’d prefer not to pay for a service that ultimately can’t fix that. But if loved a house with an HOA enough, I’d pay it. No big deal.

I live up in DFW and love visiting Austin, but it is nothing like it was 20-30 years ago. I'm no "roll the clock back" kind of guy, but no, I don't see how the Austin art and music scene can be again what it once was, or the Dallas scene either.

One thing that is becoming a factor for exisitng residents and those just moving in - the weather has become utterly miserable for 2/3 of the year. I've lived in Texas my entire life and and in Austin over 35 years total. The summers always had some miserable summer days over 100º here, but now they have become numerous. The stiffling heat and humidity has been cited by many leaving the area. This foreshadows what is to come over the next several decades as temperatures continue to rise and water use gets rationed more and more frequently. People will leave. The coastal areas will experience the same thing as heat and tropical storms increase. I would say buy land and property in Colorado and maybe some other areas. Stick to states that don't have a lot of snow, as the hot state migrants don't like snow. I'm old and trying to decide if we should stay here in Austin or look for a kinder, milder climate to age into.

O.G. from the East side here......had to sell mom's house after she died since the property tax shot up to $38k/year and the city charges for on-street parking. I kind of got used to the guys who yell at the sun and the new wave from Honduras. No way I could afford the taxes.

I love Austin. Spent 14 years there. Looking forward to moving back at some point.

The boom will increase property taxes on those still there to the point that they will have no choice but to sell or lose the house.

I think it is gone. and irreversible .

Great video I learned more about Austin!

Haiving a single developer building a whole neighborhood is absolutely _not_ normal - it's a historical aberration, and only something that had been happening for the last 50 years, and only in North America, on a cloud of subsidies and debt. It's also visually reminiscent of centrally-built communist housing imo. I think there's a decent chance we'll soon see the collapse of this suburban experiment and the return of normal, natural growth to cities.

Well done video with good editing. I see people move into homes highlighted in east Austin who 1. Do not now or likely will not have a family 2. Have little to no ability to maintain the property 3. Have standards of quality that allow questionable product. This type of buyer is making good money in some IT sector position, living a dual income, no child lifestyle, and they are willing and able to dedicate a high percentage of their income to housing.

I hadnt been near west campus in 5 years and was appalled at what theyve done to hyde park. The city is slowly being bled dry of its soul.

I had visited Austin many times since the mid 70s, and lived there for three years in the early 90s. Back then the SXSW (South by Southwest) festival was locally known as the "South By So What" festival. Maybe a few regional "A" list bands would sign on to draw people, but largely the bands were garage wanna-be bands that sucked. In the early 90s the first waves of Californians were moving in. Over time they turned into San Francisco v 2.0. They turned Austin into the same shit hole they had just fled from. And drove property values through the roof. Not planning to be in that town again.

I disagree that suburban houses hold their value better. Maybe in the short term, but in the long term they get run down, infrastructure gets neglected, prices drop, poorer people move in, and the wealthy people move still further outwards, into another newly-built suburb. Yesterday's fancy suburb is today's hood. Look at Compton. Outer-suburban houses are not multi-generational investments. They're single-use, like cars. Once people start realizing this, downtowns across the country are going to spike in price and the burbs will be left to decay.

I moved to Austin in 1998, if the city was like it is currently in 1998 I would have never moved here.

Great video my man

The East Side used to be the low income housing now they're trying to tax their home so they can't afford it

Same thing that is happening everywhere - speculation and greed.

So glad I left 20 years ago. My mind's eye view of Austin is still in it's reputation-making phase.

That poor city

I gave up on Austin when the Night Hawk closed down on congress ave.

Unfortunately Austin's zoning problems started many, many years ago when older historic homes were torn down for business expansion. In the early 90s, I was saddened to see a historic plaque describing a historic home and looking at an architecturally ugly building. The city had already set the precedent. But it doesn't take too much to wander into South Austin and see how Austin could have been. Many of the now older neighborhoods are unchanged from 30 years ago.

People who build like this are still rolling the dice and taking their chances needs to be pointed out. Anchorage, Alaska is another far more dangerous example of this as is a very active earthquake zone so Austin doesn't have that terrifying possibility despite Anchorage having tall buildings too. Plus the economy is far more diverse in Texas writ large and still booming rather than near any other economy in the USA currently. Is darn hot there, tho. If I were living in one of tobacco shacks from the 1930s I'd be ecstatic to see this development actually. And amazed quite honestly.

Austinites who have moved away have all told me the 1970s were easy living, but after that, it was all downhill.

I've lived in Austin for almost a decade, and it's growth has been significant, and it's charm and culture are being diluted by westcoasters.

If nothing is irreversible in real estate, this is just a phase that also is going through up and down. And ups are always gonna be greater than the Downs.

Long term, we will never see those super low interest rates again. However, with all the big tech continuing to move to Austin, such as Samsung Tesla, etc. The need for more affordable housing and surrounding areas will be met. Particularly to the Northeast Taylor. For example there are lots of cornfields where developers can still put up track housing. One thing is certain. Old Austin is dead. Three years ago, I moved to Rockdale and had to drive an hour a day each way to work in Pflugerville. At 6 AM. There’s a line of cars heading inbound on Highway 79 every morning.

1. Crazy low interest rates for far to long (increased rates has helped, but not stopped it) 2. Liberal policies in places where more affluent people leave and take all that money to a market they can better afford but would otherwise never move to if it were not for those policies (they voted for). 3. Pandemic that forced increase remote work capability among those same high income earners. NOW: slowing down primarily due to inflation and higher interest rates.

I say would say yes to both you're questions. It is reversible and yes they have gone too far. Its going to be a painful reset for it to reverse.

You wanted weird, what came was freaky. The transformation of Austin will be complete when it has poop maps just like San Francisco. I'm still trying to understand Tesla in Texas (layoffs?) when new Teslas can't be sold in Texas.

Nice video. Been here since '90. What has happened in Austin is pretty much inevitable in a town as money comes in. No one will tolerate windows and walls that don't hold in the climate controlled air or live with floors that creek. Once the land is worth more than the tear down, this is the result. Historical preservation like they have up north is onerous and expensive and would only push away new residents. I think the only thing you left out was how relaxing of the State Capitol Building line of sight regulations massively reshaped downtown and why wouldn't single family homeowners sell to those developers.

Let's go in, drive up prices so high, real working people cannot afford to live there. Then, let's bit h because we have no workers to sustain our desires.

Get ready Nashville your next

Big tech money ruined Austin beginning in early 90's...

I lived in Austin from 1970 to around 1974 off and on. I'm from Fort Worth and I was involved in the music scene in Fort Worth and Dallas back then in the late 60s. The main music scene was centered around a lot of underground venues which included "The Cellar" in downtown Fort Worth and Dallas. ZZ Top, Johnny Winter and a lot of folks got their start there. Even a very young Stevie Ray Vaughan played at the Cellar when he was a young teenager with a band called Crackerjack! I went to visit California back in late 69 and was not impressed with the young folks there, they were not friendly at all like they were in Texas, now I'm talking about the long Haired, musician, subculture types back in the day! When I got back to Texas, a musician friend of mine, suggested I visit Austin. It way way cooler and friendlier than LA or San Francisco and a hell of a lot closer. So I went down there the next weekend and ended up at the Armadillo Headquarters and I met some folks and didn't come back to Fort Worth at least six months! It was the coolest place I ever visited and it was not crowded at all. All there was were Musicians, College Kids and the Texas Government. That was it, you could rent a house for less than a hundred bucks a month, a big one! I miss the days of my youth, especially Austin Texas! Like most places these days it is unrecognizable to the Austin it use to be back in the late 60s and early to mid 70s. Back in the late 70s a man named Michael Dell developed the Dell Computer and as far as I'm concerned that was the beginning of the end of Austin Texas, the coolest city in the United States. You just had to have been there in the beginning to understand the gravity of this statement! It's still a cool place now but nothing like it use to be!

You can do almost the same where people didn’t like the change in the 90’s. Change is constant. You can stay in the past, or embrace the future and adapt. That said, I will never live in a HOA. My neighbor parks his work truck on the street and has a camper in his backyard. I need him and his job to keep society working. I wouldn’t want to live anywhere else. God bless America.

great job on this video! I loved everything except the sound effect at the end. turn those down so they don't peak so high and it's a 10/10

Im an Austin native...not one lie detected #Eastside

I live an hour north of you near Fort Cavazos. I'm down in Austin for different events all the time. The only way to truly enjoy Austin is if you are a multi Millionaire owning a house in the city interior where you can walk or take a short drive anywhere you need to go. Condos are not worth it. Housing prices are not worth it. I would have considered Leander/Cedar Park because it's far enough away but with access, but even those homes are way overpriced. Austin's problem is a lack of infrastructure planning and it's too late to change that.

The way you make housing affordable is to increase supply. People complaining about affordability usually are against density and change. Can’t have your cake and eat it too.

I bought in a suburb and am feeling pretty at risk now that the sector that enabled that is cutting staff.

Austin is just San Franciso lite now, was there for 20 years, left in 2016, right before it became a complete Liberal cesspool, was great when I was there

Californians gentrified Austin price wise

Not a fan of taking a 1 house lot and cramming 2 houses on it.. in some cases the driveway is shared. Might as well just buy a townhome if your sharing a yard.

Slowly Texas is disappearing forever, it's not just Austin. All of these people moving here have zero idea what Austin ever was and they don't care about what it should be, all they care about is that they've moved here and they want it to be exactly like where they moved from. The best question is, if these people love where they came from so much why did they move here in he first place? There are what I call "old money" neighborhoods around downtown with a concentration of similar houses, but the "new money" is building houses just like this with twenty houses around them that are being held together with plywood and nails. The bottom has fallen out of the housing market in Austin and many Californians have learned about property tax the hard way, these newly renovated (or completely rebuilt) homes in otherwise "undesirable" neighborhoods will only help the property value of the homes around them and the people who would buy and renovate/rebuild are either moving to one of the no longer small towns around Austin (goodbye Bee Cave, Lake Travis, Lago Vista, Round Rock, Cedar Park, Leander, etc. Y'all will be missed), living in apartments or condos, or they're no longer moving to Austin at all.