What The Hell Happened To Austin?? I Went To Find Out. 

My parents and I moved there in 1976 when I was 9 years old, lived there from 1976 to 2017 with a 2 year break when I lived in Georgetown, Texas. It's definitely not the city it used to be. I got priced out in 2017 and moved to a much less expensive Texas city to the north. If anyone actually wants to move to the Austin area I would recommend Georgetown, Belton or Temple. They don't defund their police departments and then have to rely on the state police (DPS) to control crime like Austin did. PS: Love the channel. keep up the good work ! : )

The California transplants ruined Texas, Arizona, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, etc.!

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@@PatrickCole-md9bu Gotta work really hard and non-stop to keep them from gaining power. And work extra hard to defeat them in Arizona!

@@johnbartholf777 People need to get off their lazy butts and vote against their crazy leftwing looney chit.

and Colorado.

@@JK-ld8cd They began devastating Colorado in the 90s. Now it's a complete sh*thole.

And generalization happens to people that comment and don't want to look at the details.

Yup

NJ MASS HI CONN IL...? Marixist demorats.

Why are you bedridden so young?

I happy you enjoy them😮

Sorry your going through a rough time. May God help and bless you

You are not missing much. Biden is our president and the world is about to end.

@@dominysynclairI’m 44 mostly bedridden since 22 it happens.

Diversity is our strength

Japan is a Homogeneous culture they care about each other! America is exactly the OPPOSITE!!!!

It's the culture. It's the people

Yes, and they want to ruin that, too

​@@georgehigh4723it's also modern libs putting ideals over realism I say modern, because I was moderate left before covid After covid they lost the plot

Sell that house what are u waiting for sir

Greg Abbott invited neoliberal tech bros

@@YRandomVideosY because then he has to buy a new home of lesser value....for more than what this one is worth more than likely

houston has worse crime.

As a fellow Texan from the Plano area, we are eternally gratefully for the people of Austin and their liberalism. Because of their lax laws and support of illegal substance use, the riff raffs in our area have almost all moved to Austin. To put it another way, Plano is our house and Austin is the roach trap.

If you're from Houston and think Austin's bad then that really makes a strong statemnt lmao

As a fellow former Houstonian, Houston has gone to hell equally. I used to live on the west side not far from 6/memorial. Places around there have gotten so sketchy but so many areas have gone to shit there.

@stevenetram Houston has always had bad crime and it got much worse after the Katrina refugees. What is Austin's excuse? They went from one of the best small or mid-sized cities in the country to a complete shithole in a decade.

I totally agree with the boiling frog analogy.

The current economy is actually better than it's been for the last several years. Regarding drugs, what stat are you referring to?

Even the rich doesnt want to endure. Soon the poor stops buying what the rich is selling ans the rich become poor too!

@@LokiDWolfThe economy is NOT doing better when you factor in the rise in prices due to inflation. People have less than they did before. Just because the rise in inflation went down doesn’t mean prices dropped.

​@@LokiDWolfnice lie dude

city govt. has big deficit due to pension obligations

​@@michaelsix9684I wonder what would be the fix to this? I hope not bankruptcy because pensions will get slashed

@@Cenlalowell it's a problem for Houston, Dallas also, municipal pensions have been underfunded for a long time, don't have an easy answer

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Yea,on payments

@@johnjaco5544 or just a lease- and people riding in Ubers and such.

Ikr. But half of them waiting on the repo ppl

those car loans are serious😂

WEF

Man, sorry to hear that. Government is importing poverty and misery over seas that should keep the garbage away. Germany, France and the UK are like that at present. Oz will lose its soul and it’s deliberate. Sad.

I live in Melbourne Vic mate , around 5 mill. Austin has around 1.2 mill. Couldn’t show you an area in Melb that looks anything like the shiteholes of US cities. Definitely agree the Aust Govt is weak and fugged up ,immigration way to high ,but absolutely no comparison. The only comparison I have seen to the US is the Aust outback towns with high Aboriginal populations and that’s a fact , seriously high crime rates ,rubbish ,car wrecks,drunks everywhere ,rough sleepers ,burnt out houses ,like it or not .

This is the post covid world we live in. Sadly conspiracy has become fact. What will we do about it?

Government has ruined our country, they should pay a huge penalty & get canned. It's nuts that we have senators 80+ yrs old still in office who should be forced to retire. I bet they all take naps @ work, long lunches bcuz they chew too slow, walk too slow, 4get where their going, 4get why their walking while sum of them have to wear depends. I bet Diane Feinstein 4 sure, she's like 92 gimme a break! She farts dust in the wind & don't even know it probably thinking "Boy it's sure windy out here!" 👩‍🦽💨🤤

What grounds could that be based upon?!

​@@Cycology_Majorpropaganda and lies

⁠@@texanalways7325you must be one of these Affluent White Female Liberals!!

@@Cycology_Major If you’re not advancing The Message you’ll get banned quickly. This is why I’m no longer on FB.

Whaaat😮??

Go to Seattle if you haven’t been in a few years democrats have made it a real shyt hole. Lived up there for 13 years it’s unrecognizable now trash everywhere and these are the same people that will scream “the environment “ as they destroy it and cram green new deal (scam ) down our throats.

Texas was pretty nice back in the 70'-80's, Houston, Austin no problem. I had to move after the oilfield collapsed and ended up in Florida running heavy equipment for 40 yrs. Now the snowbirds and mass migration here has ruint Fl' and i'm moving to northeast Texas for my last years. My family lives there.

May I ask where you went? I live in San Antonio, where crime is getting really bad. There are some good little cities around us, though.

I moved to Lexington about an hour east of Austin, a very small town. It took me awhile to adjust to living in such a small town having been used to stores, restaurants and places to go but I am now retired and glad to be in a quiet town with a slower pace.

@@sherrieatkinson5410 sounds amazing, like you found a little piece of heaven!

feel the same about dallas

I am one of those people who moved to Austin from California and I love Austin and feel it has a lot of character and culture I just think it sucks those who were here originally like yourself don't like what it's turning into :/

We considered so ourselves, but maybe one day Texas can be independent and we can clean the place back up.

Don’t Austin my South Dakota 😂

I came to Austin about a year and a half ago. I can’t wait to leave in December. I go to San Antonio as often as I can cause the people are much friendlier and sane.

I stay away also.

Thank a Democrat. And YES Austin is run by Democrats even though it’s Texas so is Dallas , San Antonio and Houston all run by Rats. Moved out of there 10 years ago to the free state of Florida . Nice and clean here don’t see this crap Thank you Desantis! Now a lot of Dems have quit because Desantis, starting Jan 1 2024 put new law in effect ALL elected officials have to disclose every $1000 in assets . Brilliant !

And my own

I’ll tell you how it happen once each country established itself. They should have closed the doors and implemented the strictest immigration and border patrol ever. Because once everyone there already assimilated to each countries say of life. If you let new immigrants in they will just destroy what was built.

TX as a whole is getting what it votes for. It's not relegated to Austin.

Yeah, it is. I lived in Austin for awhile in the past. It was wild but not nearly as trashed as it is now. I blame the one's in charge.

I don't blame the way ppl vote, All these politicians are great liars!! When any of them campaign they sound great, they get in office, power goes to their heads. They get bribed by lobbiests, opposed by fellow politicians n who knows what else n there we have it. They don't care what they promised, they just give into the ppl with the biggest wallets 😢

Have you noticed that most of the trashy cities are run by democrats? It has everything to do with politics@@orlando198200

Yes, it is politics, get a clue, here in California. The liberal communist voted in proposition 47 allowing theft of up to $950 to be charged as a misdemeanor. And then voting in liberal DAs who will not prosecute misdemeanors also, no bail, then proposition 47 also made most drug possession a misdemeanor. This was voted in the leaders who overtax us were voted in voting is politics.

The hepcats haha

It's a literal free for all. 😂 They need to legalize weed.

It will never be like portland.. period.. close.. but never like portland.

💩☠

I'm sure you helped to break Portland. Stay.

Don’t vote Democrat

Open carry is so dumb.

​@@OtisFlintActually it's a deterrent for dumb.

@@rse4379 NOPE

@@andretobias2439 Let me guess, you don't believe in guns.

That hasn't seem to help all the suspicious deaths surrounding Lady Bird Lake and the downtown area.

Republic, democrat,, don't matter, they all lining there pockets while everyone else suffering. Who's idea was it to ship all the jobs and factories over seas? Paying 2.00 bucks an hour?

Almost. The strong Republican cities are mostly ok.

Small towns are the only hope! And please no one come to mine! It is growing and we don’t want it to!

only Democrat ran city working on collapsing America

WEF push of destruction of all but the elites.

@@QueenB572 Where exactly do you live? LOL

As European I wonder what is the plan and why so many Americans want this decline and absurd mixing, uncontrolled migration, legalized crime etc. - maybe that is the reason to make people to pay for closed/gated communities?

@@Saeglopur89We don’t we’ve been complaining about this for years. The uneducated didn’t realize what they were doing we told them. I’m gonna tell you a secret it’s the 1st gen even 2nd gen immigrants that have coddled the illegals making it a horror story. Those of us here 200 years plus we are true Americans it’s not us who wanted this. And the blk Americans were too busy with the race war now they are complaining but probably too late.

This is some of the worst writing I've read. I would suggest taking a writing course,

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Relocating to Florida is the best thing we ever did! I miss home but I’ll never step foot in California again. It’s too far gone 😢

@@theartistcherrypi6454 good for you getting out of here. I love the people in Florida. I get so depressed when coming back here. My family and I are PO'ed at being pushed out of our home state.

@@meandub How long will you stick it out? From what I read in the news periodically it doesn’t seem the voters there want change or any improvement given they couldn’t even recall Newsome. I wish everyone in that state had the ability and means to see how much better and normal the rest of the US is once you escape from there. Well, at least some other parts of the US but definitely not all. Will you stay there indefinitely? It’s really sad because all of my family is still there but they refuse to leave. My last trip home right before COVID I almost cried driving around seeing the destruction and decay. It was surreal! At that point I had been gone for years but the difference in how it was when I left vs the tent cities and shanty towns in formerly prestigious and upper middle class areas was jarring. I was so heartbroken seeing my hometown in such a dystopian state. I asked my family what happened since I left but they just shrugged their shoulders like nothing was wrong. It makes no sense to me that they seem to have accepted abnormal as their new normal. You could not pay me millions of dollars to move back there to any city in that entire state. Central Florida is the best move I ever made and my only regret is that I didn’t come here sooner.

Please move to the oc and vote red. We need you

Fort Worth is a big city run with right leaning politicians, move there

lol Republican ran state, I think the governor is in charge of the whole state, low taxes and low wage that’s the great state of Texas 😂

@orlando198200 Austin and Travis County are so Leftist that they are barely Southern and barely Texan.

​@@Staywoke7909- WRONG. The cities have their own governments. Austin, like Houston, is a progressive liberal run city.

​@orlando198200 yes but the major influx of a very trashy element of CA has been a relative recent phenomenon...past 20 years maybe and it's caught up with the city.

@@Staywoke7909Wages aren’t low adjusting for cost of living, California has super low wages adjusting for cost of living. The region with the highest purchasing power in the US are Midwestern and Rocky mountain states (mainly utah). The south is not bad but has a couple rich states next to literal impoverished deep south states.

Yeah hella guys. I think it’s a sheriff due to all the police cover ups and they called a guy with duck tape on his entire face and hands and feet a suicide?! Lol how is that even possible? Did he walk 5 miles n jump in? Lol definitely still some ghb druggies that do it to rob people. Often they give people too much. I tripped on how often it happened

Romeo Rose is the Rainey Street Ripper

​@veronatragedy7016 they know who was killing people?

@@bellasue02 Verona Tragedy is ‘Romeo Rose’, an ATX laughingstock & ‘has been’ of 10 yrs ago trying to craft another 15 min’s of fame for himself, once again.

Agreed. Great video on Austin. Sums it up very well. I lived there from 2009-2021. My family and I really enjoyed it for the first 5 years. But it recent years the homeless and affordability really became bad. Glad to be out of there!

But most of you in USA want this and voted for that, I'm trying to understand as European what are the reasons? Years and years and it progresses to more and more cities, you even export those ideas to the rest of the world which is worst thing. But why? To make people pay for closed/gated places?

​@@Saeglopur89- not everyone in the U.S. is clueless. Only progressives.

@@Saeglopur89 It’s almost impossible to find any American in comments who doesn’t identify ONLY with the far right or far left parties. Too many important issues should be considered individually, by Moderates, yet we here have little to no choice about who to vote for. Texans constantly blame Democrats for excess growth & California problems yet Republicans rule the state -& especially business law.

It's like this in all the major cities. The Leftists are going to use these cities to spread this destruction out into the surrounding communities. Kinda like FOBs (forward operating bases), and I'm pretty sure we're just going to sit around and let it happen.

I find Boulder much more comparable to Ann Arbor in my limited time spent at both cities. Highly upscale college towns that are part of a major metro but just far enough away to be its own thing.

A family member killed them. He was mentally ill. Happens all over America because....easy access to guns

That’s what happen to LA alone with illegal im migration we are worse then ever.

Same here. It’s not happening now or ever; it’s past. I’m looking into an entirely different region now.

Don't let this video scare you because it's trying to and being deceptive. Austin has less homeless and safer than the other big cities in Texas.

Same here - visited Austin so many times, loved it every time and wanted to move there. But now it hurts to see it go downhill.

‘Refunding’ isn’t the opposite of defunding, hon’. But I know you don’t mean ‘give them back their money’, lol

Imported leftists & thousands of illegals won't allow that.

Ok James

Mass mind control.

We're not which is why we're all leaving. After 42 years born and raised here I'm moving to Killeen in a couple weeks.

Haha I'll try Cathy

People living in cars are counted homeless by the US census. And deregulation? how come the most regulated states like california have the highest homelessness per capita in the US then? 🤣

Thankfully I've never had to try this, my brother has told me if the need raises to act crazy. Talk to myself bite myself talk to my imaginary friend. He says if most ppl think you're nuts they will leave you alone 😅

Sounds like it might work.@@mariacherrington61920

@@mariacherrington61920😂😂😂

What really amazes me is that it's happening in all western world - try to walk in some German or Swedish cities. Absurd amounts of brown people from Africa and Middle East, extreme crime spiking to absurd levels. Now even in central and eastern Europe - 23% of crime now in my country comited by immigrants while 10 years ago it was ZERO

​@mariacherrington61920 People used to do it all the time in NYC.

I lived east of Dallas off and on in the 1980s at Lake Tawakoni and worked construction in Dallas. Was able to meet Stevie & Jimmie Vaughan & Dimebag Darrell and see them play live there. The lake was a nice place back then. I went back to visit my sister in 2007. She had been forced to move into a gated community. Nice vacation homes had been destroyed by copper thieves. Obvious, dirty, skinny addicts were walking everywhere. Strange people approached us in the area saying, "Got any scrap metal junk you need hauled off? Can I come look around just to be sure? I can mow your yard!" Desperation! I was thinking of living there and starting a tourist related business targeted at campers and fishermen. I loaded my stuff back up and got out of there quick! I`m in the Louisiana woods now. Got me a travel trailer. I got emergency solar power, made a vegetable garden, and started planting fruit trees and berries. I have a creek to fish in and have made a few animal friends. Peaceful. Quiet. Security cameras and alarms. It`s bad now everywhere. People have no hope!

Time for Governor Abbott to enforce the rule of law and not have city halls subvert them.

I live in Austin and from Dallas, Dallas has plenty of homeless maybe more than Austin. So Dallas has gone down hill. I think not. Nick is just exploiting these people for profit. Homeless is a hard nut to crack. The state had a big hand in it when they shut down many state mental hospitals. So now they are all on the street. It also doesn't help that many smaller towns bus their homeless to the bigger cities.

​@@BTSloan70- most states shut down their mental health hispitals. Look at California as just one example.

For real. Finally have seen an old school democrat that loves America and their community

Thats funny 😂 f Walmart lol 😂

Sounds like Houston 3 dollar after shave under lock and key.

It's a great place in some areas. Texas needs to legalize weed

AUSTIN TX. IS. TRASH. ALL. BEEN. 🤦🏽🤦🏽🤦🏽🤦🏽

I live in the next county over from Austin. Never want to go any where near that place. Got everything I need where I'm at, except for the airport.

"All of our politicians are idiots!!" You are still not getting it. This is all being done on purpose. They are not idiots, they are being paid to gaslight you and ignore whats going on, and making you believe they are idiots so they can continue to do the same. How can people not see this for themselves?

What's a 15min city?

Sorry to ruin things 😢

And then we defer our move even further down the road… 🫣😩

I just said that

Converse is a dump but cheap

I tried to tell people for years he's a rino, he doesn't care about Texas, & he's as crooked as Biden. Right now people calling him a hero makes me sick. He could have stopped illegals flooding in years ago, lied he'd done all he could. There's an entire city called Colony Ridge of nothing but illegals- who BOUGHT their homes with illegal funding- built by Abbott donors. Texas is going blue and he's directly responsible. People are so lazy they won't look at what he DOES, they just listen to him brag & buy all of it.

I'm from Australia and don't understand suburbs/ neighbourhoods you can't go too.

Giant corporations in league with government Mussalini corporatism rather than old fashioned mom & pop businesses. True Facisim at top levels. Including the head lock on insurances gov requirements for licenses for just about everything. Inflation cannot happen without government overspending EVER.

Greed in general 💔

No morals. No families. No relationships. Division.

I avoid just about all the major cities. Occasionally I'll go to Galveston or San Antonio.

@@rse4379How’s San Antonio these days? I lived there as a kid when my Dad was assigned to Ft. Sam Houston in ‘68-‘71. Fond memories of SA, but I’m sure it’s gone now.

@@brinsonharris9816 Honestly I spend most of my time near the Riverwalk area, which is great as you know. Like any other city, it has its rough patches to stay clear from.

@@rse4379Nothing like this I hope.

@@brinsonharris9816 Its been a little while sense I was last there. So not sure if it has progressed to this point. Sadly, this seems to be a problem accross the entire country.