Austinites who aren’t Texans: The city’s influx of out-of-staters

[Sanguine]

You don’t often hear “Austin” as an answer when you ask someone in the city where they’re originally from. And if you’ve noticed it’s becoming even less common to hear “Texas,” you’re not imagining it.

As KUT reports, Travis County has the third most new, out-of-state residents of any county in the U.S. More than 250,000 non-Texans have packed up and relocated to Travis County between the years 2011 and 2014....

...So which states are sending transplants Travis County’s way? According to KUT: “Florida tops the list of states other than Texas that sent the most citizens to the Austin area, followed by California, Georgia, New York and Illinois.”

http://austin.blog.statesman.com/2016/07/13/austinites-who-arent-texans-the-citys-influx-of-out-of-staters/

Some interesting little factoids that confirm what many of us thought.

[geronl]

Some interesting little factoids that confirm what many of us thought.

Yep!

[IsailedawayfromFR]

I happen to be a Texan who grew up an Austinite. 
Am not now.  Too weird.

Back then,

1 we actually had moonlight every night (and a song about it)
2 we drove across the top of Mansfield dam on a 2 lane road( imagine doing that now)
3 the world's first Schlolskys opened up on South Congress
4 UT had a good football team and the tower stayed orange almost all the time
5 there was no LBJ library
6 no bats under bridges, 6th street was a rough part of town, the Batman world premiere was at the Paramount, and the closest place to buy Coors beer was at that same dam.

[thackney]

I happen to be a Texan who grew up an Austinite. 
Am not now.  Too weird.

Back then,

1 we actually had moonlight every night (and a song about it)
2 we drove across the top of Mansfield dam on a 2 lane road( imagine doing that now)
3 the world's first Schlolskys opened up on South Congress
4 UT had a good football team and the tower stayed orange almost all the time
5 there was no LBJ library
6 no bats under bridges, 6th street was a rough part of town, the Batman world premiere was at the Paramount, and the closest place to buy Coors beer was at that same dam.

If you are too weird for Austin, you are some kind of special...

[Sanguine]

If you are too weird for Austin, you are some kind of special...

Well, but "too weird for Austin" could mean things like, no tattoos or piercings, not sure what Tinder or Grindr are,  thinks dreds are nasty, has never (deliberately) been to a demonstration, thinks "organic" is mostly a marketing ploy, and owns a gun.  Pretty weird.

[IsailedawayfromFR]

If you are too weird for Austin, you are some kind of special...

Was there again this weekend to celebrate a brother's anniversary.

I was again reminded of the idiocy of not being able to use a phone in a car, the grocery store trying to sell me a sack to make a profit rather than doing a service to the customer, a new Tesla dealership, and the stupid toll roads permeating every part of a city.  Even read the Round Rock newspaper that announced AlGore was in RR to seal another 10 year commitment for solar/wind to 'save the planet'.  He might be the only person who is in competition with the Clintons on how much one can use public service to abscond with money.

Yeah, it is too weird for me.

[ABX]

I remember when weird Austin liberals were still Texan first. They were our crazy, hippy, artsy cousins who, even though we disagreed politically, we were party of the big Texan family. That seems to have changed the past decade, Austin liberals are becoming liberal activists first who have no connection to Texas.

[Wingnut]

Austin ain't been right for 30 years. 

[Half Vast Conspiracy]

6 no bats under bridges,

Where'd they come from?  First time I flew into Austin (1995), they were INSIDE the terminal.

@IsailedawayfromFR

[Cripplecreek]

My new Neighbor is a Texan. He says if he misses Austin he can always run over to Ann Arbor.

[uglybiker]

Austin's been known as 'Moscow on the Colorado' for 50 years now.

[IsailedawayfromFR]

Where'd they come from?  First time I flew into Austin (1995), they were INSIDE the terminal.

@IsailedawayfromFR

That was the old airport where my dad worked.

Right off IH35, we used to shoot jackrabbits on runways at night.  Maybe the bats were out there as well.