By far one of the most thoughtful and substantiated replies I’ve ever gotten anywhere, especially here.
Yes, we saw the writing on the wall in 2015, except by then it was a neon sign. We sold our house at a decent markup. Had we rented it and sold it today we’d be living on that windfall for the rest of our lives. How your average non-IT and poorly compensated worker is capable of supporting a single family household (not apartment) within ten miles of Austin mystifies me.
Thx for enlightening me on the lifting of the camping ban. The stunning number of homeless was heartbreaking. Sadly, we’re seeing a similar sky rocketing in cost of housing here in Tampa now as it becomes the hot new destination. Lots of Texas plates too and a sense that what we witnessed over 20 years in Austin is Tampa’s future as well, though without the insufferable tech-bros at least.
