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Why Austin Failed To Become The Next Silicon Valley
Posted on 8/28/25 at 1:37 am
Posted on 8/28/25 at 1:37 am
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For years, Austin was one of the fastest-growing and most talked-about cities in the U.S. But now, only a few years later, things are changing. Home prices have declined, major companies are pulling back, and many residents are moving back to California. So, what went wrong, and what does Austin’s future really look like?
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Posted on 8/28/25 at 1:46 am to Street Hawk
1. Damn hot summers
2. Everything else…
2. Everything else…
Posted on 8/28/25 at 3:29 am to Street Hawk
Austin is 30 square miles surrounded by reality.
Posted on 8/28/25 at 3:52 am to Street Hawk
Traffic
Posted on 8/28/25 at 4:08 am to Zapps4Life
It’s filled with bonafide posers. People who flipped scrip after high school to be edgy.
Posted on 8/28/25 at 4:12 am to Street Hawk
Too many liberals. They screw up everything!
Posted on 8/28/25 at 4:15 am to Tig04
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Too many liberals. They screw up everything!
What do you think silicon valley is? A bunch of people wearing MAGA hats?
Posted on 8/28/25 at 4:38 am to Street Hawk
Ahhhh yes, the self-styled Republic of Texas...never understood the fascination with Austin...a Progressive cesspool
Posted on 8/28/25 at 4:39 am to Street Hawk
Austin wants to keep it weird. Not a recipe for success.
Posted on 8/28/25 at 4:55 am to TexasTiger89
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Austin wants to keep it weird. Not a recipe for success.
When your weirdness is contrived for the sake of being weird it eventually just becomes stupidity.
Posted on 8/28/25 at 4:57 am to Tig04
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Too many liberals. They screw up everything!
Where there is failure, there is a democrat
Posted on 8/28/25 at 5:21 am to LSUballs
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When your weirdness is contrived for the sake of being weird it eventually just becomes stupidity.
Agreed. I like the Austin area but not because of any of it being "weird"
Posted on 8/28/25 at 5:52 am to Street Hawk
because its full of overly sensitive figs.
Posted on 8/28/25 at 5:56 am to Street Hawk
I imagine it took one Texas Summer to make anyone who grew up in CA cry for home.
Posted on 8/28/25 at 5:57 am to Powerman
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What do you think silicon valley is?
Why’d they leave Silicon Valley in the first place?
Posted on 8/28/25 at 5:59 am to Street Hawk
Because UT isn’t Stanford.
Posted on 8/28/25 at 6:21 am to Street Hawk
1. A key contributor to the rise of Silicon Valley is California’s lack of non-compete contracts
2. Other areas have become successful alternatives to Austin
3 Not only is UT not Stanford, Texas doesn’t have the UC college system pumping out a large and competitive pool of potential new hires
2. Other areas have become successful alternatives to Austin
3 Not only is UT not Stanford, Texas doesn’t have the UC college system pumping out a large and competitive pool of potential new hires
Posted on 8/28/25 at 6:25 am to TexasTiger89
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Austin wants to keep it weird. Not a recipe for success.
The problem I find with Austin is they try so hard to show you it’s weird that it becomes a facade.
Austin is too big IMO, if I lived there I’d be ecstatic to hear it’s shrinking.
Posted on 8/28/25 at 6:43 am to Street Hawk
Ridiculous article.
Austin was comparable to Baton Rouge in the 1960s and 1970s. Now look at those two metro areas today. One has seen modest, predictable growth while the other became a real boom town.
I’d say Austin clearly had a stratospheric rise since then and should be proud for leaving their peers in the dust in a relatively short time. Tech is mobile and there are many other smaller tech hubs in flyover country that didn’t really exist 20 years ago. Austin has 1-2 dominant industries and needs to diversify, and they seem to be doing that albeit slowly.
Austin was comparable to Baton Rouge in the 1960s and 1970s. Now look at those two metro areas today. One has seen modest, predictable growth while the other became a real boom town.
I’d say Austin clearly had a stratospheric rise since then and should be proud for leaving their peers in the dust in a relatively short time. Tech is mobile and there are many other smaller tech hubs in flyover country that didn’t really exist 20 years ago. Austin has 1-2 dominant industries and needs to diversify, and they seem to be doing that albeit slowly.
This post was edited on 8/28/25 at 6:48 am
Posted on 8/28/25 at 6:54 am to NorCali
Thanks for posting that.
Ive been watching the progression ( regression) of non-competes for awhile now. California's state law is groundbreaking and very much enforceable.
Ive been watching the progression ( regression) of non-competes for awhile now. California's state law is groundbreaking and very much enforceable.
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