Comment on 'Where ambition goes to die': These tech workers flocked to Austin during the pandemic. Now they're desperate to get out.

• protist@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This…this is new

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  • RegularGoose@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Maybe, but it’s only ever going to get worse. All of Texas and most of the west as a whole are going to be unlivable soon.

    The smart people are leaving now. Anyone who isn’t is going to be fucked when it becomes a refugee crisis.

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    • protist@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      This is a severe exaggeration. I’d still rather live somewhere where it hits 105 every day for 6 weeks than where it snows for 6 months. Austin’s fall, winter, and spring are great

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      • AlphaOmega@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        When I lived in Austin in the 90s, I would leave the windows open about 9 months out of the year. Since the early 2000s, that’s become less and less.

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    • jumperalex@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yup. I had a rental condo in Vegas I sold after 20 years because I read the writing on the wall. And Vegas is doing an amazing job of preparing for water issues.

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    • SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Everyone trying to squeeze more water out of the same rivers and reservoirs.

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