They Just Moved to Austin. Now They Want to End One of Its Traditions
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#2Sounds exactly like an article being written about the Mission in 2009
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#3Real estate law has this concept of “Coming to the nuisance” where if you know that there is some kind of “nuisance” nearby and you move next to it anyway, you can’t complain about it later. I’m not a lawyer so I’m probably pedantically wrong about it in some way but that’s my understanding of it. People do this with small local airports all the time. They move in, knowing full well (or should know full well) that there is an airport there, then a year later they bitch and moan about the noise and try to shut it down.
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#4Sounds exactly like an article being written about the Mission in 2009
And 1999.
Re: They Just Moved to Austin. Now They Want to End One of Its Traditions
#5"The new arrivals have forced many Black residents to move out of the city: In 2000, about 10 percent of the Austin’s 656,000 residents were Black. By 2017, that percentage had dropped to around 7.5"
Well, article definitely commits a statistical fallacy there. Austin is one of the fastest growing cities, especially from 2000-2017 period. The fact that the percentage went down (from 9.5 to 7.5), while the city's population nearly tripled does not mean people were 'forced to move out'. In fact, it means that the black population nearly tripled while other races moved to the area in even greater numbers.
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#6What’s with the racially charged description? I thought Texas was not about virtue signaling and political correctness.
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#8Real estate law has this concept of “Coming to the nuisance” where if you know that there is some kind of “nuisance” nearby and you move next to it anyway, you can’t complain about it later. I’m not a lawyer so I’m probably pedantically wrong about it in some way but that’s my understanding of it. People do this with small local airports all the time. They move in, knowing full well (or should know full well) that th…
Given enough people, loud complaining, money, and politicians ears you can get anything moved.
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#9Few things annoy me more than this kind of destructive gentrification.
Re: They Just Moved to Austin. Now They Want to End One of Its Traditions
#10Sounds exactly like an article being written about the Mission in 2009
All the way down to "Cesar Chavez"