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General Discussion => Beer and Queso => Topic started by: Duke on April 21, 2016, 01:20:27 pm
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......Austin named #1 by Forbes.
http://www.papercitymag.com/culture/texas-hotspot-austin-declared-the-no-1-city-in-america-by-national-mag-tommorrowland-real/
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Yes, it's become an amalgamation of California, NY/NE, and the upper midwest, all crammed into what was a perfectly good city.
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Yes, it's become an amalgamation of California, NY/NE, and the upper midwest, all crammed into what was a perfectly good city.
BS
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they are building a condo with no parking. that is so not austin
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Yes, it's become an amalgamation of California, NY/NE, and the upper midwest, all crammed into what was a perfectly good city.
I don't know. I've been here all my life. I spend a bunch of time in CA and NE (sending this from Boston) and I don't see much resemblance to either of those. Austin is certainly different than it was in the 70's but isn't every place? I'm not like those who bemoan the downfall of what Austin used to be. It's better in some ways (BBQ has improve vastly in the last 10 years) and worse in others (traffic) but it's still home.
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Austin is a great place to live and work. The influx of new blood has changed the town over the past 25 years, it's a slightly different city with a lot more options than before. You have to take the bad with the good. Nothing is permanent. The traffic is horrible in any large city. The best place to live is where you feel most comfortable.
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Austin is a great place to live and work. The influx of new blood has changed the town over the past 25 years, it's a slightly different city with a lot more options than before. You have to take the bad with the good. Nothing is permanent. The traffic is horrible in any large city. The best place to live is where you feel most comfortable.
Traffic is nothing a couple hundred million in bike lanes can't fix.
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Traffic is nothing a couple hundred million in bike lanes can't fix.
Or a rail line from East Riverside to UT.
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remember dont use your car ride your bike walk or just stay home day according to the mayor like may 11
will absolutely solve everything
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remember dont use your car ride your bike walk or just stay home day according to the mayor like may 11
will absolutely solve everything
Telecommuting has many benefits for both employer and employee, and traffic on the first Friday of SXSW was pretty decent. This needs to be a serious option everywhere, not just in Austin. The people who make jokes about it are only holding us back, just like the people that fought Austin's growth for decades.
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Telecommuting has many benefits for both employer and employee, and traffic on the first Friday of SXSW was pretty decent. This needs to be a serious option everywhere, not just in Austin. The people who make jokes about it are only holding us back, just like the people that fought Austin's growth for decades.
Seriously. It's the 21st century.
Unless you're running a storefront business, there's no need to be tied to an office...or to an office schedule. I work in an international business, but even in the US there's still 4 time zones. Why do we all have to be here at 8 (ish) and leave at 5? My firm tracks hours worked and we fill out a time sheet every week; as long as I put in the hours and get my shit done (which takes more than standard hours usually), why do they care when or where I am working?
We have video conferencing on every computer. We make our calls over the interwebs. I can connect from anywhere with a wifi connection. Many of my clients are in different time zones. Many of my insurance carriers are on different continents. Our executives are always traveling and our salespeople are rarely in the office (nor should they be) yet we all have offices that lay empty much of the time. When we have meetings, half the people are dialing in from remote. We only really get together when we go and see a client - and that's always on their turf, never ours. So why do we need fancy conference rooms?
Take people out of the office schedule, and rush hour will be much alleviated.
EOR.
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I worked at AMD fro several years and I live in North West Austin. t first they allowed me to work offset hours (7 to 4) and from home occasionally. Then they decided that if we weren't in our cubical from 8 to 5 we weren't working. Ridiculous! My commute went from 45 minutes each way to 1.5 hours. 3 hours a day on Mopac will drive you to drink.
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it will just get worse. the attempt to improve mopaq is not working
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Listened to the NPR Hidden Brain Podcast today. (http://www.npr.org/podcasts/510308/hidden-brain) They talked about traffic. It was interesting. Research has shown that both building new roads and increasing public transport doesn't reduce congestion.
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Listened to the NPR Hidden Brain Podcast today. (http://www.npr.org/podcasts/510308/hidden-brain) They talked about traffic. It was interesting. Research has shown that both building new roads and increasing public transport doesn't reduce congestion.
That only leaves extermination as an option.
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Listened to the NPR Hidden Brain Podcast today. (http://www.npr.org/podcasts/510308/hidden-brain) They talked about traffic. It was interesting. Research has shown that both building new roads and increasing public transport doesn't reduce congestion.
If the public transport is a bus which stops in the right hand lane for minutes on end, I agree.
I've heard the road arguments for years, but don't buy it, based on my personal experience. The toll roads in Austin have helped, as they also have in my travels in Houston. The expansion of I-10 in Houston has certainly helped when coming into Houston also.