Originally Posted By: JustinH
I live a little north of Austin.
Many people at my office are from all over California.
All the new restaurants going up are chains that started in California.
Austin just passed its first hands free cellphone law, similar to California.
People in my neighborhood are selling their properties in California, and buying ones out here in Texas for CASH.
Its an interesting time to be down here. I drove down a street near my work in a suburb of Austin, and counted 7 construction projects going on at once for Condos, Medical Offices, Restaurants, you name it.
On one street!
The Californians are already here.
I am from New York, and there are a ton of "Yankees" down here as well.
Nobody in Texas is from Texas anymore.
George W Bush is from Connecticut. Ted Cruz is Canadian. Ted Nugent is from Michigan. ...even Walker, Texas Ranger himself Chuck Norris is from Oklahoma.
For the first time in over a hundred years, outmigration from California is exceeding the number of new California residents.
Then we have the whole Louisiana/post Katrina resettlement. LOTS of Saints and LSU stickers on cars here in Cowboy/Longhorn land
Back in the late '70s- early '80s it was Ohio and Michigan transplants. Detroit and Dallas flipped population numbers. Detroit fell below a million and Dallas skyrocketed above a million people. You can't go to a Dallas-Ft Worth sports bar on a Saturday and not see someone in Scarlet and Grey or Blue and Maize to this day.
I didn't even grow up here. I was born here but I grew up in Georgia.
I am surprised that the In-N-Outs haven't been killed by Whataburger yet. The Carl's Jrs are starting to close.
I was really sad to see Krystal's fail here. That was the one restaurant from my childhood that was exactly like I remembered it.
When we were trying to buy a house 10 years ago, Californians outbid us on several houses. Sometimes to ridiculous amounts. We would bid $110,000 on a home that we knew was no better than a $100,000 house and some Californian would bid $150,000. We ran into the former owner at the grocery store and talked about it. Don't blame him for grabbing the big sale.
We paid too much for our home just to get in and close before someone threw another way over bid at it.
Then the housing bubble burst in '07 and we ate a big loss in estimated property value. Hey, lower property taxes! That's one benefit I guess.
I live a little north of Austin.
Many people at my office are from all over California.
All the new restaurants going up are chains that started in California.
Austin just passed its first hands free cellphone law, similar to California.
People in my neighborhood are selling their properties in California, and buying ones out here in Texas for CASH.
Its an interesting time to be down here. I drove down a street near my work in a suburb of Austin, and counted 7 construction projects going on at once for Condos, Medical Offices, Restaurants, you name it.
On one street!
The Californians are already here.
I am from New York, and there are a ton of "Yankees" down here as well.
Nobody in Texas is from Texas anymore.
George W Bush is from Connecticut. Ted Cruz is Canadian. Ted Nugent is from Michigan. ...even Walker, Texas Ranger himself Chuck Norris is from Oklahoma.
For the first time in over a hundred years, outmigration from California is exceeding the number of new California residents.
Then we have the whole Louisiana/post Katrina resettlement. LOTS of Saints and LSU stickers on cars here in Cowboy/Longhorn land
Back in the late '70s- early '80s it was Ohio and Michigan transplants. Detroit and Dallas flipped population numbers. Detroit fell below a million and Dallas skyrocketed above a million people. You can't go to a Dallas-Ft Worth sports bar on a Saturday and not see someone in Scarlet and Grey or Blue and Maize to this day.
I didn't even grow up here. I was born here but I grew up in Georgia.
I am surprised that the In-N-Outs haven't been killed by Whataburger yet. The Carl's Jrs are starting to close.
I was really sad to see Krystal's fail here. That was the one restaurant from my childhood that was exactly like I remembered it.
When we were trying to buy a house 10 years ago, Californians outbid us on several houses. Sometimes to ridiculous amounts. We would bid $110,000 on a home that we knew was no better than a $100,000 house and some Californian would bid $150,000. We ran into the former owner at the grocery store and talked about it. Don't blame him for grabbing the big sale.
We paid too much for our home just to get in and close before someone threw another way over bid at it.
Then the housing bubble burst in '07 and we ate a big loss in estimated property value. Hey, lower property taxes! That's one benefit I guess.
