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'Where ambition goes to die': These tech workers flocked to Austin during the pandemic. Now they're desperate to get out. (www.businessinsider.com)
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'Where ambition goes to die': These tech workers flocked to Austin during the pandemic. Now they're desperate to get out.::Drawn by the promise of an emerging tech hub, some tech workers who flocked to Austin found a middling tech scene, subpar culture, and scorching heat.

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[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Yeah, I hear you, but what if we add another 7 lane highway that cuts right through the center? I think that would solve the issue

-random US city response, probably

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (2 children)

random US city response, probably

Not random. You just described Houston, Texas.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

Atlanta as well. The frustrating thing is that Atlanta has MARTA, but the state refuses to fund it and MARTA's answer for everything is to divert funds away from rail to bus lines. But then the degraded rail service means more people drive than ride trains, thereby increasing gridlock, which causes bus service to suffer. So then MARTA diverts funds away from rail to bus lines...

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Can't be Houston, he said 7 lane highway not pothole ridden, Mad Max hellscape

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

what if we add another 7 lane highway that cuts right through the center?

That's hard to do now since we've run out of affluent African-American neighborhoods to build them through.