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03-17-2006, 12:43 PM
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Am I a hater? OK guys, let me bounce this off our community here:
I am not a native Texan, (but have lived in Texas over 7 years) but I guess I am starting to feel like one in at least one respect.
I might be off base here, I might sound like a hater, but WTF is up with all the Californians either moving to central Texas or just buying up all the investment property???!!!
I want them to stay the F@C& out of our state. They have messed up their own badly enough, now they want to mess up ours?
Don't get me wrong, I don't automatically dislike someone just because they are from California. I just don't like a lot of the ones that have moved to Austin/the Austin area. They drive like morons and they are in a big "land grab", buying up properties left and right such that a "normal guy" like myself can't afford to buy anything other than a basic one-family home.
I want to buy an empty lot to put a shop/warehouse on. It would be to hold/store my cars and those of some fellow F-body guys here in the area. Well, you wouldn't freaking believe the prices on non-residential zoned lots! I have said "Why are you asking $300K for an empty, 1-acre lot? Is there an oil deposit or vein of gold under that sucker?" The realtors laugh, and then they say "no, it's the knuckleheads from California. If we sold it to you for a reasonable price, you would just flip it to one of them and make money that we could have made."
I think the people from Cali like central Texas because of the climate, the cheaper real estate, and the fact that Austin is a hippie/liberal city so they feel at home when they arrive from the socialist paradise of Kalifornia.
Probably not a damn thing anyone can do to stop this invasion. I just want to vent a little here and ask if anyone feels the same way (or has even noticed).
Again, don't want to be a hater, but I'm getting annoyed at the situation.
I am not a native Texan, (but have lived in Texas over 7 years) but I guess I am starting to feel like one in at least one respect.
I might be off base here, I might sound like a hater, but WTF is up with all the Californians either moving to central Texas or just buying up all the investment property???!!!
I want them to stay the F@C& out of our state. They have messed up their own badly enough, now they want to mess up ours?
Don't get me wrong, I don't automatically dislike someone just because they are from California. I just don't like a lot of the ones that have moved to Austin/the Austin area. They drive like morons and they are in a big "land grab", buying up properties left and right such that a "normal guy" like myself can't afford to buy anything other than a basic one-family home.
I want to buy an empty lot to put a shop/warehouse on. It would be to hold/store my cars and those of some fellow F-body guys here in the area. Well, you wouldn't freaking believe the prices on non-residential zoned lots! I have said "Why are you asking $300K for an empty, 1-acre lot? Is there an oil deposit or vein of gold under that sucker?" The realtors laugh, and then they say "no, it's the knuckleheads from California. If we sold it to you for a reasonable price, you would just flip it to one of them and make money that we could have made."
I think the people from Cali like central Texas because of the climate, the cheaper real estate, and the fact that Austin is a hippie/liberal city so they feel at home when they arrive from the socialist paradise of Kalifornia.
Probably not a damn thing anyone can do to stop this invasion. I just want to vent a little here and ask if anyone feels the same way (or has even noticed).
Again, don't want to be a hater, but I'm getting annoyed at the situation.
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03-17-2006, 01:28 PM
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Its just like folks from other high COL areas(cost of living). When my family moved down here the house we owned in NY would have sold for over a million five, and its not that big. However, down here, you can get the same size for 300k.
Texas property is crazy cheap, so are the houses. They even had a special on the news about all the million + houses down here and they are ******* HUGE, and GORGEOUS. In Cali or NY or any other area w/a high COL you'd be living in a two bedroom hut if you have the same good location for that money.
Just my six cents from a fellow out of state'r.
My blood is pure yankee. 
BTW, if you want to start a small militia to help curb the invasion, let me know. I may not be a native, but I live here, and I don't want the state fucked up anymore than it already is
Texas property is crazy cheap, so are the houses. They even had a special on the news about all the million + houses down here and they are ******* HUGE, and GORGEOUS. In Cali or NY or any other area w/a high COL you'd be living in a two bedroom hut if you have the same good location for that money.
Just my six cents from a fellow out of state'r.
My blood is pure yankee. BTW, if you want to start a small militia to help curb the invasion, let me know. I may not be a native, but I live here, and I don't want the state fucked up anymore than it already is
03-17-2006, 01:37 PM
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At one point in time I thought about moving to Austin, then I realized that everyone else seemed to have the same idea. I'm happy where I'm at, Houston has everything I could ask for.
03-17-2006, 01:59 PM
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It started with Arizonians hating us, then those in Colorado (for the same reason). I guess Texas is just next on the list (as well as New Mexico) 
Believe me, I live in Cali and hate most cali people too
I bought a tiny house in 96 for $133K, sold in 2004 for $255K, that guy sold it in 6 months for $440K and I heard it was worth $579K now
Believe me, I live in Cali and hate most cali people too
I bought a tiny house in 96 for $133K, sold in 2004 for $255K, that guy sold it in 6 months for $440K and I heard it was worth $579K now
03-17-2006, 02:21 PM
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When I lived in Austin, it wasn't like that yet. And I'm from California. I've been in Texas over 12 years now. My parents moved to Austin about 6 years ago from Indianna, so I still visit often. I'm amazed how much it has grown. When I lived there, Lakeline Mall didn't exist yet. In fact, they were still constructing 183 from where it now branches off I-35. Dell hadn't even started constructing the Round Rock campus yet. They were still off Braker Ln.
Blame the success of Dell and other high-tech companies on the expansion and value growth. Don't blame the Californians. Where I am in NW Houston, I suspect the same thing is going to happen in the next 5 years. If HP remains prominent, and they expand the Houston campus, and they (the new developers, not HP) finish construction of that multi-million dollar project that is just now underway across the street from the campus, all of our property values could skyrocket. I look forward to it. If you bought in Austin before the property value's started to increase, you'd think the same way. It's all a matter of timing. If I owned an acre in Austin, and some schmo offered me 300 grand for it, you bet your butt I'd sell it to him!
Still, 300 grand is nothing by California standards. If our house and property were sitting in Silicon Valley, it'd be worth over 3 million dollars.
Blame the success of Dell and other high-tech companies on the expansion and value growth. Don't blame the Californians. Where I am in NW Houston, I suspect the same thing is going to happen in the next 5 years. If HP remains prominent, and they expand the Houston campus, and they (the new developers, not HP) finish construction of that multi-million dollar project that is just now underway across the street from the campus, all of our property values could skyrocket. I look forward to it. If you bought in Austin before the property value's started to increase, you'd think the same way. It's all a matter of timing. If I owned an acre in Austin, and some schmo offered me 300 grand for it, you bet your butt I'd sell it to him!
Still, 300 grand is nothing by California standards. If our house and property were sitting in Silicon Valley, it'd be worth over 3 million dollars.
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03-17-2006, 03:14 PM
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Computers,cost of living, and honestly this state is the Greatest state to live in. Others are nice to visit but this one can kick all of the others asses. Born and raised here , lived in Misery for a year St.Louis to be exact. The cold sucks, the women are BLAH with exceptions.
