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From: werner@ut-ngp.UUCP (cskl503)
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Subject: Re: Okay, HOW expensive is it? - Bay Area Housing
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Date: Fri, 15-Jun-84 14:16:45 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun 15 14:16:45 1984
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if you have to ask, ......

after reading Phil's (Santa Clara, CA) and Betsy's (Boulder, CO) follow-up
let me add:

after hearing how bad it is in CA and CO, let me add that you should not,
repeat NOT, consider coming to Austin TX, for many reasons.  We just had the
coldest winter, the driest spring, and are looking forward to a disaster-year
in general.  Water will be rationed soon, new water-hook-ups are not possible
to get, the lakes are down nearly 30 feet, boats are being ruined if not moved
to deeper water all the time. 3 years ago we had a killer flood, 4 years ago,
when the hurricane hit the TX-coast, people moved their air-planes to Austin
for protection, and the airport got, promptly, hit by a Tornado, destroying
more planes than anywhere else.

Growth is creating Houston-like traffic jams, ridiculous land and housing
prices, speculators, sharks, Yankees, Canadians, Arabs, etc are everywhere.
"Real" Texans are talking of secession and are threatening to go armed and
shoot "foreigners" on sight.

We have a nuke which is ruining our electricity prices, a city council which
does not obey city-charter, growth-related law-suits left-and-right,
and now I hear, that Gov. White is a top-contender for the US V.P. position,
which can only make matters worse, attracting even more power-brokers to the
local scene.

And to top it off, the Legislature is in "special session" to solve our
"education crisis" and make Texas "second to none in the nation".  Gov.
White really might take some votes away from Pres. Reagon.  He also got
elected on a platform based on "no new taxes" and "balanced budget".

Does anything speak against moving to the Research Triangle?  I am
considering it!