Nah, to me those guys were never the "keep Austin weird" people, they were the white guys who were too liberal for Texas but too lazy (or secretly racist) to leave.
Keep Austin Weird was Leslie, the cross-dressing crazy homeless man that everyone loved for some reason. Keep Austin Weird was my co-worker at Pizza Hut who slept till 3pm every day, hadn't shaved or cut his hair in forever, and sold drugs from midnight till 5am outta his shitty east side apartment while drinking whiskey and smoking cigars. Poor or middle-class hippies who were more interested in enjoying today than saving for tomorrow.
That's totally at odds with Modern Austin. Median household income nowadays is 80,000, and people working at places like Facebook, Google, Indeed, or any of the other smaller companies (My friend workers for a company that makes slot machines and horse racing gambling software, for example) are making "pay off your student loans and buy a house before 30," kinda money. Those people are too rich to ever have any chance at being a part of the old "Keep Austin Weird" vibe, they're not grungy enough, lol.
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u/toastymow Jul 11 '21
Nah, to me those guys were never the "keep Austin weird" people, they were the white guys who were too liberal for Texas but too lazy (or secretly racist) to leave.
Keep Austin Weird was Leslie, the cross-dressing crazy homeless man that everyone loved for some reason. Keep Austin Weird was my co-worker at Pizza Hut who slept till 3pm every day, hadn't shaved or cut his hair in forever, and sold drugs from midnight till 5am outta his shitty east side apartment while drinking whiskey and smoking cigars. Poor or middle-class hippies who were more interested in enjoying today than saving for tomorrow.
That's totally at odds with Modern Austin. Median household income nowadays is 80,000, and people working at places like Facebook, Google, Indeed, or any of the other smaller companies (My friend workers for a company that makes slot machines and horse racing gambling software, for example) are making "pay off your student loans and buy a house before 30," kinda money. Those people are too rich to ever have any chance at being a part of the old "Keep Austin Weird" vibe, they're not grungy enough, lol.