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Californian immigrants changed Austin from weird

There is still the Keep Austin Weird slogan here. I live just outside Austin, and can't stand the IDIOTS running the city. Thank God Gas-Guzzler Garcia is not the mayor anymore. He screwed this city so bad, it may never recover. I moved out of the city limits in 1983, but still have to come in for work. We are still getting plenty of Kalifornia transplants here. Not as bad since the dot.com bust happened. I had some kin visit from Kalifornia, and they are so tired of Davis. He has ruined that state, just like Gas-Guzzler has ruined Austin.

I arrived in Austin in 1994 and folks were complaining then about the influx of Califonrians over the previous two years. I can remember traveling I-35 on almost any hour of the weekend and traffic was light. (During the bust of the early 90's, I can imagine it was next to nothing on Sundays.)

Anyway, the traffic is damned congested when not merely heavy almost any hour of the day. Folks are in such a hurry anymore, running red-lights by all manner of people is almost a daily topic of conversation.

Thanks to an influx of people from just about anywhere you can think of, Austin is rapidly ballooning into-- and picking up the problems of-- a Houston/Dallas/San Antonio. Austin is no longer 'weird.' It's wonky!