Reasons why Austin is the worst place ever

[Tyrone Biggums]

This.

I don't know if anyone has watched the series "Portlandia", but from what I gather, Austin and Portland are eerily similar.

Portlandia is hilarious BTW. They poke fun at the whole culture there and from what I hear it is pretty accurate.

I gathered this as well from the show. Portlandia is great.

[roliath]

I dated a girl in Austin and spent many weekends there, nearly moved. But I agree with what he said. Fuck Austin, and most of the people there.

[Rick Modena]

I-35 between Georgetown and Buda is a giant clusterfuck!

[jakesford]

This.

I don't know if anyone has watched the series "Portlandia", but from what I gather, Austin and Portland are eerily similar.

Portlandia is hilarious BTW. They poke fun at the whole culture there and from what I hear it is pretty accurate.

Portland and Austin are very similar, but the pretentiousness in Austin is way higher... I always felt that the people I interacted with in Portland were much more sincere. In Austin you have people that go out their way to put on a show about being what ever the flavor of the month is...only to go get in their leased X5, and drive back to their $700k loft at the end of the day. Portland is a really cool city, and if you are into camping, hiking, fishing etc. etc. etc., that part of the country is hard to beat.

The traffic in Austin is horrible, even on a Saturday its a nightmare getting around downtown, and then when you think you are free, there will be a kite festival or some shit going on, and they will have the road closed.

I love Austin, and go down there quite a bit, just the outdoors stuff to do outside of the city is worth it. I think the hill country is some of the prettiest parts of this state.

[46Tbird]

Mostly spot-on.

[appelingogt]

Austin drivers are worse than a million teens texting while driving in north Dallas in pouring down fucking rain...

[bcoop]

I lived there for almost 10 years, moved away in 2006 and went back a few times over the past year or so.

He makes a lot of really great points and is deadly accurate in many areas - not all, but a good part of it.

You couldn't pay me enough to move back to that place today.

What do you think he is wrong on? I know Matt would agree with every bit of that after his stint in Austin. I think it's spot on.


I enjoy visiting there. A weekend at a time. I don't know that I could live there, though.

[John -- '02 HAWK]

"they have whiskey-infused bacon!”

What type of pussy whines about bacon and whiskey in the same sentience

[jluv]

Of course he is right about the heat and traffic. Those things make Austin suck just as much as they do DFW and Houston.

But holy shit - he's bitching about whiskey bacon and a pun-off? What a crybaby, buzzkilling, little bitch!

I mean, it sounds like he just wants to take the pun out of everything.

[Rick Modena]

What type of pussy whines about bacon and whiskey in the same sentience

No shit, I want to try that...

[95DRGT]

I-35 between Georgetown and Buda is a giant clusterfuck!

toll 130/45 FTW and bypass that chit. I have a daughter at school in San Marcos so we take that all the time and never see Austin

[Baron Von Crowder]

toll 130/45 FTW and bypass that chit. I have a daughter at school in San Marcos so we take that all the time and never see Austin

Austin Autobahn FTW

[Rick Modena]

toll 130/45 FTW and bypass that chit. I have a daughter at school in San Marcos so we take that all the time and never see Austin

Oh I do too, it's expensive, but well worth it to me. I haven't driven through Austin since they built that damn thing. And no one uses it, so cruising at 90 is bad ass...

[01vnms4v]

Oh I do too, it's expensive, but well worth it to me. I haven't driven through Austin since they built that damn thing. And no one uses it, so cruising at 90 is bad ass...

X2!!!!!!!

[UserX]

Sounds to me like this guy is not happy about all of the people from California relocating to Austin and bringing their California attitudes and lifestyles with them LOL.......

The smart ones are going from TX to CA... right, Mike?