> thick traffic and unreliable public transportation
Can't imagine Bay Area residents complaining about traffic and bad public transport.
> city’s 100-plus-degree heat
Maybe should've googled Austin before moving ?
Can't imagine Bay Area residents complaining about traffic and bad public transport.
> city’s 100-plus-degree heat
Maybe should've googled Austin before moving ?
[0] - https://www.foxnews.com/politics/california-taxed-less-texas...
[1] - https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/texas-cali...
> Which makes the decision not to fund things like public transit even more ridiculous.
No, Texas still collects far less taxes and has less money to spend, but at similar income levels, people (outside of the very high end of the distribution) pay higher taxes in Texas.
California has more strongly progressive taxes and California has a higher income population, so it can collect a lot more total taxes (per capita, it has the #3 tax revenue per capita of the 50 states + DC) despite people at or below (and up to a fair amount above) US median income paying less in taxes than people making the same amount would in Texas.
It's also not relevant to the commenters on this site. People who move to TX from CA tend to be young, high-income, childless, and less likely to own a home. If some combination of those applies to you, the 0% income tax and lower sales tax massively lower your burden.
“When they can” is essentially always: if landlords can’t pass costs on to renters, they aren’t going to be landlords for long.
[1] https://housingworksaustin.org/2022-city-council-district-by...
Instead we're still in the planning phase for the recently approved referendum that will cost billions upon billions for a few miles of stations.
On the plus side, I do think Austin has done a good job building out their bike lines over the past few years. Lots of central/suburban roads now have separate bike lanes that are at least protected by those "flexi posts".