I remember when my Oregonian friends would say “Keep Portland weird.” None of them live their now.

And I though that Silicon valley was something that Trump buried his face in with Stormy Daniels?

Kathleen Stock is a Founding Faculty Fellow of the University of Austin, Texas and presumably spends some time there.
It’d be interesting to see an article by her on what she’s finding with regard to “Keep Austin Weird”.

Progress is a bulldozer! This has been happening from the very beginning. If you don’t want things to change, you have to make things difficult for new arrivals to arrive. Also, you need to allow people who are content to say, “thanks but no thanks, we are happy the way things are.”
There needs to be another article highlighting the same kind of change. Western Europe is very different from 20 plus years ago. It was not money that transformed it, but people. The far left is to blame for this as well. Left of centre is a nice way to be but stray a little bit further to the left and it is very destructive. Far more so than the far right.

Great informative article. Just shows how lucky we are to live near Europe.

While red states fret about the escapees from blue states arriving to bring destructive policy, seems they are rejecting them. Austin becoming near TX normal might be a good thing for all. But the past charm of Austin is likely to end.