Austin Voted No. 1 Place to Live by the U.S. News and World Report
We saw this trend back in the early 2000's during the dot com boom when Time Magazine voted Austin one of the top ten cities to start a new business. And we all remember what happened then -- EVERYONE moved here. The city began to grow at a rate native Austinites such as myself had never experienced before. The city was woefully, and continues to be, underprepared for the massive influx of new residents. “U.S. News analyzed 100 metro areas in the United States to find the be
Making Austin Solar-Ready
Austin has forever been a progressive city when it comes to the environment. We have gone to great lengths to fight to protect our lakes, green spaces, air quality, and living conditions. As we move into the new year our City Council is now proposing a new measure which, if passed, will require all new construction, as of October 1st, to be "solar ready". According to a new article in The Austin Chronicle, all new residential structures will need to be designed and built in a
Is Austin Ready for Car-Free Luxury Living?
Anyone who lives in Austin complains about the traffic. Are we to the L.A. scale of road rage inducing congestion? Not quite yet. But we aren't far off unless drastic measures are taken to reduce the number of cars on the roads, improve mass transit, and finish the seemingly never ending construction on Mopac (they say 2018 now... we'll see.). So has been the constant debate since 2000 when the idea of the "A Train" was introduced and met with resounding refusal by the reside
The Financial and Moral Dilemma of Austin Housing Costs
As of January Austin, Texas was still listed among the top 5 most expensive cities in the United States. Why is this? As someone who arrived in Austin in 1979 as a child, I've watched this city transform from the sleepy little hippie university town where it truly seemed like anyone with a song and a dream could make tremendous things happen, to a hungry, aggressive metropolis brimming with overpriced development. Of course this is considered "progress", but at what price? Th
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