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Originally Posted by GoldenBoot
Really? Sure reads like your intent is to incite one. Add value to an Austin discussion or take your actions elsewhere. If we were interested in Houston developments, we know where to find said information.
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For what it may, or may not, be worth, that comment of mine came about as a response to a different poster having said directly to me something to the effect that Austin is the only place in Texas that is building so many residential properties in its downtown. There is only one city in TX that I have enough knowledge of to use as an example of how that claim is mistaken. I probably should have responded to that specific person instead of the person I did respond to, but he/she did not seem all that amenable to discussion.
As I said in the part of the comment that you did not quote, my intention was only to show how we may be unaware of what is happening elsewhere. We may think things happening in our cities are only happening in our cities. The surge in downtown residential properties is, of course, a national trend.
It has been made abundantly clear to me that there are enough people here who don't want to hear even (what I thought was) gentle teasing about Austin's entry into the big leagues. Now I know. I will try not to do it again. I can't promise that I will succeed, though.
As I've said elsewhere, Austin's growth (both in quantity and quality) is just phenomenal to me. I first moved there in 1976. (There was only one Chinese restaurant at the time!) In that time Austin has gone from being a place I wanted to escape from to a place I know I would enjoy living in.
If you see me slip back into some mild snarkiness at some point, just know that I'm experiencing a moment of envy at what seems to be Austin's less risk-averse development style as well as experiencing frustration at what I see as so much that is disappointing and downright boring (or worse) being built in Houston.
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