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Is Austin selling itself out to the highest bidder?

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Re: Is Austin selling itself out to the highest bidder?

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As someone who lived in Austin and has seen the entire economy running on the back of mexican workers cleaning the streets, cutting the trees, caring for the everyone’s lawn, doing pest control, making your tacos at torchy’s, fix your roads at 105F etc. Lol. You like immigration alright, you just like to blame foreigners for the results of your own policy decisions and grifting of the tremendous oil wealth the state…

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I wasn’t complaining at all.

Re: Is Austin selling itself out to the highest bidder?

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I wasn’t complaining at all.

I mean OP: “Although I still like my home town it's sad to see how much has gone away and been replaced with things finance bros or transplants from CA might like.” He’s complaining about the cultural and economic change brought by transplants.
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