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Had a friend move to Texas about 4 years ago, he can't find a full time job paying over 15 bucks an hour...He was making that in the late 90s...

I was in Austin all last week. Surprised me to see a lot of "Help Wanted" signs in front of restaurants and fast-food places along the roads. Many with the pay posted on the signs. However, they were $10 to $12 per hour. Restaurants in the better areas all busy with customers, doing great. Malls seem busy enough.

The guy getting 15 an hour in 1992 probably came from the north east or california.

I was in Austin all last week. Surprised me to see a lot of "Help Wanted" signs in front of restaurants and fast-food places along the roads. Many with the pay posted on the signs. However, they were $10 to $12 per hour. Restaurants in the better areas all busy with customers, doing great. Malls seem busy enough.

Austin's biggest problem is transportation, and it's only going to get worse. Those $10 and $12 per hour jobs you saw? You can't afford to live anywhere decent in Austin proper on that unless you live as frugally as you can and are sharing costs with others, which pushes you out to the suburbs/outer areas, which means you are going to be contributing to an already bad transportation problem.

Going back to the original post, it's not that Williamson County is having problems outside of law enforcement that can't hold their liquor and a crooked DA, it's that people who are working the crap jobs are being forced out of the area.