Wow....
I couldn't make stuff like that up if I tried.

Before I JOKINGLY 'tear your argument to tiny pieces'.... let me just say, sincerely, thanks for responding.

I love you . whoever you are.

Okay, lets begin constructing your new sphincter orifice!
:P

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"...if you hate everything here so much,"
I don't hate 'everything' here Ronnie, just humorless fucks like you.
Which *is* damn near 'everything' considering how many of you there are on the Northside.

"I'm a conservative, and I've been here a lot longer than you. "
Assuming shit right off the bat. Lovely.
This is really my favorite part.
You've got juvenile pride, xenophobia, and blind assumptions...you've got it all right there.

"This is the CAPITOL of the state of TEXAS"
No shit?
Funny....you've been here "Lo these many years", are territorial and defensive about the place, and you still haven't looked at any
voting demographics?

I'll bet Austin has been more liberal than the rest of the state for way longer than you have been here.


"...move the fuck away..."
oh I am! ...I am!
I'm moving *right* the fuck away...
...but you'll still be eating a dick when i'm gone!

:D
That's my favorite joke of the bunch right there.


"...we didn't ask you to come here..."
'We'? Have you been spending too much time alone Ronald?
Or are you speaking for the whole city of Austin?

Because *I* didn't even ask me to come here.

I was born here.

Which *really* sucks because I've been dealing with conservative (insert creative, plural expletive here) like you my whole life.
(sob)

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Anyways Ronnie, in closing let me just say, sorry if I ruffled your feathers....
okay I'm not sorry... fuck you, really, but in a gentle, slow, tender way that only a progressive
man can fuck a conservative, oh so tighly-clenched one.

Anyways, read the fine print, " this is a rant, take with a grain of salt, etc."

And settle down, jesus, you'll live longer and get more done that way.
Nothing on the internet is worth making an ass of yourself over.

Peace,
Ben











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Uh, riverside isnt as ghetto as rundberg.

That there are actually trees and not just concrete as far as the eye can see. I can drive 15 minutes and be in a park, with trails, canoeing, natural spring fed pool. It's very artsy here with quaint little shops. I guess the biggest plus is that the humidity levels are so much lower than in Houston. Even though Austin is growing and there is traffic congestion, it's nothing compaired to Houston. Everytime I go and visit family, the areas I grew up in just don't seem familiar anymore, they seem alien.

Places that used to be natural are now gone, paved over to make small housing communities, metro park n rides and so on. I know that change always happens, that things must expand to keep commerce going but sometimes I wonder why. You see buildings that sprouted up one year and the next they are empty because the buisness couldn't thrive, it then becomes a tagging ground and it just sits as an eyesore. Buisness are moving to the out skirts of the Houston area, so you have to drive 30 min to an hour to get to a buisness that was once just a few minutes away.

When I'm in Houston, I feel closed in, confined, almost feeling suffocated by the amount of buildings, the lack of trees that help reduce the heat and break up that concrete grey. You can literally see the heat rising off every surface, streets and buildings, adding to that suffocating feeling. In the winter time, the lack of green and just all that concrete really increases that dull greyness, increasing that winter blues feeling, despair, sadness, hopelessness.

I know that a lot of construction has been going on in Austin, especially the eyesore condo units near downtown but atleast they still try to keep that green aspect. I like that Austin, despite it's own growth issues, tries to keep nature and growth in balance, whereas Houston just kinda said screw it.