re: I went to Austin this past holiday season

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you're a grown man going to dirty 6th during holiday season and whining about it? Austin is a transient city, dumbass.

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He’s going up there to get some “transient” hookers.

Austin was a cool place back in the '80's. Great nightlife downtown after games. Plenty of cool stuff to see and do. Music scene was good. Plenty of great places to eat and drink.

Then the drinking age changed to 21 and a little later, Austin went woke. Most of the nightlife around downtown went LGBTQ and the less respectful among us have moved in. Almost nightly street fights on 6th street. There are actually more gay bars than straight bars. Music scene hasn't disappeared but is not near what it used to be. Their big music festival SXSW is losing popularity. It has lost most of it's weird charm it once had. It has turned into just another big city.

ATX was fantastic in the late 1990s when i worked at AMD and had an apartment on 4th street.

College Station was great for its lack of distractions which allowed me to study and get my engineering degree.

I am not sure i would have been able to do that with all the distractions in austin.

Now Austin is like a mini san francisco with all the homeless and drug use. The city allows it and wont do anything about it. It is not safe, and the t.u. campus is right in the middle of it all.

My kids will be going to college in a couole years, and no way, absolutely no way I would let my kids attend college in Austin.

You can keep pretending it is not an issue.

That shite is going on not half a mile from campus.

I’m sorry, you must have gurgled some defective jizz. Austin and BCS are on completely different levels. Austin has its faults but is nowhere near the shithole BCS is.

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I’ve already told my daughter that if she wants to go to UT she’ll have to get a scholarship because I’m not paying for her to marinate in that crap for 4 years.

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Sounds to me like you’re just cheap

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Best aggie post I have ever read in my life, nailed it

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I dated a girl who lived off 35th near Camp Mabry the old Dry Creek Cafe and Boat Dock on Mt. Bonnell. You could get off 35 and take a FM road through farms all the way to the then north end of MOPAC and save a bunch of time. That turned into McMansion subdivisions in a shockingly short period of time.

For those that never went, Dry Creek was neither a Cafe or a Boat Dock. It was one of the best dive bars in the world and was run by the meanest old woman you could ever meet. It had a back porch with an incredible view out over the hills.

It definitely hurt when it shut down and was converted into I assume yet another mod build home in that area.

I also remember ordering from the startup delivery wing place Pluckers, now a large chain, and eating at the original Texadelphia because they had not yet expanded out. Freebirds was the same at the time in College Station.

I am a red-blooded capitalist by nature but also realize growth kills the authenticity of things.

Austin is the most overrated city in America. It's hot. It's full of aggressive homeless people. Sixth Street is downright nasty. Traffic is atrocious. It's somehow still insanely expensive. The University of Texas feels like it is 90% international students, so the campus feels more like a Model U.N. convention than a big state school.

Sure, Lake Travis is nice. But that's a 40 minute drive from campus to the nearest edge of the Lake.

Aggy has been proven to be a dangerous campus....#2 in the country.

Proof

https://www.houston-criminalattorney.com/most-dangerous-college-campuses/

Cry more. It’s what you are good at