Austin! Continues to attract "High Tech"!!

**Plutonic Panda** · 08-10-2014, 07:29 PM

Originally Posted by dcsooner

Oklahoma City will never be this progessive and DT will never look like this. OKC does not have the capital, will, foresight nor visionary leadership to build a DT like this. Not to mention OKC will not experience the explosive growth in industry and population to support. AIN'T GONNA HAPPEN. Just left Charlotte on Friday, DT Charlotte is impressive and most of it was done in the last 20 years. OKC is not like Austin or Charlotte both experiencing hyper growth and in migration and Charlotte has an international airport and Austin has money.

Completely disagree with you.

joninatx, please correct me if I'm wrong on this, but didn't Austin used to be fairly conservative 10-20 years ago?

**BG918** · 08-10-2014, 07:42 PM

Originally Posted by Plutonic Panda

Completely disagree with you.

joninatx, please correct me if I'm wrong on this, but didn't Austin used to be fairly conservative 10-20 years ago?

Pretty sure Austin has been a liberal bastion for several decades, thanks to the University of Texas. Hippies were common in 1960's and 1970's Austin. If anything it has become more conservative overall in recent years though still more left leaning than other parts of Texas especially in the central neighborhoods.

**Plutonic Panda** · 08-10-2014, 08:26 PM

Originally Posted by BG918

Pretty sure Austin has been a liberal bastion for several decades, thanks to the University of Texas. Hippies were common in 1960's and 1970's Austin. If anything it has become more conservative overall in recent years though still more left leaning than other parts of Texas especially in the central neighborhoods.

Didn't know that. For some reason I thought differently.....