• Cocopanda@lemmy.world
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    I love how when you talk to Texans. They’ll say the cities are cesspools of liberal waste. But then you point out the hate in the small communities around the cities and then they get chatty. Oh it’s not that bad. It’s not terrible.

    No bro. It’s terrible. It’s a shit hole. And you’re lying to yourself if you don’t believe that.

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      I’m a Texan and the cities are the only half decent parts of the state.

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        I just can’t deal with your side walk situation. That shit was a death trap in Dallas. Literal sidewalks lead you into highway on ramps with no crossing paths for anything. Wtf

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    I’ve really enjoyed the stream of articles about people who bagged on coastal cities moving to Texas and finding out why you don’t want to live in Texas. I knew just from a connecting flight in Dallas Fort Worth airport where we had a layover. So many cowboy boots, cowboy hats, and huge belt buckles. I don’t trust anyone who dresses like that not to suck.

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    I’m in Southern Europe. I have very dear friends in Dallas and Austin. I’m welcome to their homes any time I want. The thing is that I know that if I go, the only worthwhile thing would be being with friends. I’ve been to Dallas twice, and really don’t know why anybody would go for tourism.

    That plus the danger of entering the country.

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      Dallas destroyed a relationship I was in. It was such a bad time that we just broke up afterwards. I can’t really explain it. But it’s a terrible place to go to.

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      well he certainly HAD friends, but he eschewed them all for unfunny sycophants whom would make a particularly clingy remora uncomfortable

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    He moved there because he didn’t want to wear a mask during COVID times? Lol that’s so stupid that was just a temporary thing anyways who bases their life decisions on something so stupid?

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    In 2020, Joe Rogan moved from Los Angeles to Austin after visiting and realizing he didn’t have to wear a mask at a restaurant.

    What a profoundly stupid man. Him and all his idiot followers deserve far worse than they’re getting.

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      Lol he moved for tax reasons but that probably wouldn’t play well with his listeners

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    LMAO. Are you finally figuring out what’s wrong with privatizing, eh guys?

    “Texas f–king blows,” comedian Shane Gillis said in a June episode of the Andrew Schulz podcast, recalling a storm that left his Austin home without power for three days. “It’s hot as f–k. The second we ran out of power, the house was 90 degrees and bugs came in immediately.”

    “They’re on their own power grid, like f–king idiots,” Schulz added.

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    I lived in Austin from 1999 until 2023. The irony here is that the main reason the city is soulless is because of the steady influx of douchebags like themselves.

    In the 90’s Austin was arguably the slacker capital of America. The dot-com bubble killed that but after the bubble burst the tech folk that stayed behind decided to do their own thing. The Austin tech sector had a distinctly relaxed vibe. It felt sustainable and it felt like everyone knew each other. Big city tech center with a small town vibe. The downside was that we didn’t have much on the way of amenities. Prices were low and a concerted effort was made to revitalize downtown. Soon we had good food, great bars, low rent, and a genuinely fun city to be in. Then the douchebags caught wind of it, prices skyrocketed, and they ran out everything that made the place a joy to be in.

    Austin can still be great, but it will never be L.A., and thank god for that.

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      LAs biggest advantage is that it was able to utilize its oil wealth, farming industry, and trade advantage to turn itself into an absolute beast of an economic driver. It’s basically an Engine on a big piece of industrial equipment, it smells like shit and it ain’t pretty but it damned well works. No other city should be LA because one is more than enough. I say all of this as an born and raised Inland Imperial I fucking hate LA, if any one talks shit about LA without having at least honorary Southern Californian status I will flay them alive and then dump them in the Salten Sea.

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        Grew up in SoCal, been back many times to visit family over the years, I don’t see why anyone moves there who isn’t aspiring artist of some kind - and even then… good luck!

        High cost of food and supplies, excessive housing costs, droughts, wildfires, car-centric everything yet questionable civic planning, smog haze basically daily, termites eat your house every few years, and the sprawl… Jesus. Knew an old hat Boeing engineer who built his dream home way outside the city, and over the decades his commute went from 45 mins to three hours. Before he took early retirement he found a carpool buddy to trade off days driving so at least one of them got to use the time effectively.

        But hey! It’s right by the ocean, and the weather is perfect - if you love cloudless sunshine and hate season.

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          Yeah I generally concur don’t know why anyone would want to actively move here, I could kinda get Eastern California up against Nevada or even NorCal but choosing to move to LA is questionable. I do generally want people to stay out of San Bernardino as well since well most of these bastards are overflow from LA and can be quite annoying. My kin settled here so I ain’t moving, ancestors killed too many Mormons for me to piss off anywhere except maybe an independent Scotland.

          I do love the mountains and the desert, mostly because they eat dumbasses and spit out heatstroked morons and or corpses.

          Also fuck housing tracts haven’t you motherfuckers heard of townhouses or gods forbid multi residential buildings? Stop building mcmansions in fire zones you ignorant cunts, the lands relatively cheap because it burns every 5 to 10 years. I wish the state would buy up some of those 1940s-1950s era housing tracts bulldoze them and build something with even slightly high density, preferably with mixed commercial use.

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              Yeah but we split blood here, not somewhere else. If my ancestors pulled the same shit in IDK Nevada I’d still feel the same way. Also I gotta stay to correct the Seventh Day Adventist issue, what’s good for the goose is good for the gander.

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    Its embarrassing that this was pretty much all it took to radicalize so many people “realizing he didn’t have to wear a mask at a restaurant”

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      Been an avid Rogan listener since 2018: that’s all he ever talks about if the guest even remotely mentions COVID or politics. He has so many complaints that revolve around personal freedoms where he’s not self aware enough to realize that he has made something like half a billion dollars and he’s still unhappy because he can’t find a way to have fun with the money he’s made. The amount of money he has, he could literally disappear and never have another monetary problem in his life. Literally he could buy his comedian compound in the middle of nowhere and just enjoy it, but he can’t because he doesn’t actually have friends that would want to do something that stupid; he can’t even get his friends to all move to Austin.