The only thing left on YouTube of this documentary about the proposed development of Austin's Zilker Park is its trailer--someone told YouTube that the content violated copyright law, but the content is just a city meeting filled with citizen protests.
As an austin native this is beyond tragic and sad. I returned to Austin after a number of years in New York. Although I still like my home town it's sad to see how much has gone away and been replaced with things finance bros or transplants from CA might like.
Zilker is just another domino to fall in what I used to love and remember from my time growing up in austin.
As someone who lived in Austin and has seen the entire economy running on the back of mexican workers cleaning the streets, cutting the trees, caring for the everyone’s lawn, doing pest control, making your tacos at torchy’s, fix your roads at 105F etc.
Lol.
You like immigration alright, you just like to blame foreigners for the results of your own policy decisions and grifting of the tremendous oil wealth the state has. Same as Alberta.
It’s not foreigners privatizing the park, keep pushing investment complexes like the domain that need to be filled with tech bros and finance bros from out of state - it’s your own most patriotic texan politicians you keep voting in over and over. (
I encounter this personally. Family knows the owner of a construction company and almond orchard. They absolutely love the immigrants who cheaply tend to the trees or nail in trusses, he calls them the “good ones”, yet immigration is ruining the country and we need a border wall to keep it safe.
It’s about enough to make me lose hope for humanity.
I mean OP: “Although I still like my home town it's sad to see how much has gone away and been replaced with things finance bros or transplants from CA might like.” He’s complaining about the cultural and economic change brought by transplants.
The film had been on YouTube--I simply had used a Google search to get to the trailer. A new version of the film has been uploaded now--though the questions about Austin's mayor and city council remain.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NwJLvfPsYE
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[ 3.7 ms ] story [ 102 ms ] threadZilker is just another domino to fall in what I used to love and remember from my time growing up in austin.
Lol.
You like immigration alright, you just like to blame foreigners for the results of your own policy decisions and grifting of the tremendous oil wealth the state has. Same as Alberta.
It’s not foreigners privatizing the park, keep pushing investment complexes like the domain that need to be filled with tech bros and finance bros from out of state - it’s your own most patriotic texan politicians you keep voting in over and over. (
I encounter this personally. Family knows the owner of a construction company and almond orchard. They absolutely love the immigrants who cheaply tend to the trees or nail in trusses, he calls them the “good ones”, yet immigration is ruining the country and we need a border wall to keep it safe.
It’s about enough to make me lose hope for humanity.