Beyond just hourly. A friend just accepted a job in IT - called the HR recruiter and was told he is ok.

Also - I suspect there are going to be some very disappointed Californian transplants who just converted their housing in Californian to Austin housing only to find that the bubble seems to be starting to burst.

L-

Being built in that area in anticipation of new residents. But the market is so overheated, it’s going to take a lot more than 10% to cool it off.

Austin's development planning has always been short sighted and in the hands of developers. Developers have never have had to pay for the additional overhead which they are creating into already overloaded systems. Parking, mass-transit, utilities, lower income housing issues that are being created by their development and profits - that's someone else's problem to pay for.

Everything. They even build other highways beside the highway. And then they build another highway beside the highway that’s beside the highway.

It really leads to confusion and distraction, at least to me.

I went to San Antonio (smaller city, nowhere near as crowded as Dallas) for a week in April. My husband and I like to get food somewhere and take it to a park and eat. We put in the gps for the park, it said 14 miles away. We get on three different highways, using the turnarounds, zigging and zagging from one highway to another until we reached the exit for the park. And the park was so cool, with huge ancient prickly pear cactus in bloom everywhere! We stayed for hours.

Couple days later, we get in the car to do the same thing. Enter address to gps. Same result…14 miles. We get to the edge of our hotel parking lot, and instead of following directions, I told hubs “turn left, the park is just on the other side of that airport in front of us”. We drove around the airport about 1 mile, and there was the entrance to the park.

Drives me crazy.

And I am not sure I'm the one to properly explain things - even though I'm a mostly lifelong resident of the State.

The first thing to point out though - Highways are built after the fact. There is zero planning - everything is reactive. Change only happens when it is really too late to do anything. In general everything in Texas seems reactionary - I have always wondered if this explains the politics to some degree. Used to not be the case - I understand in the 1930's things were a bit different - there even used to be very reliable local mass transit from Dallas to as far as Sherman.

I'm placing my bets on the former.

but I wouldn't want live anywhere where there is snow around for months. Considering that Detroit's population has been in decline for the past 70 years while Austin's population has been growing during those years, I think that it's apparent where both people and businesses are moving.