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To: Live2Sail who wrote (47904)	1/30/2006 9:12:33 AM
From: KM	Respond to of 306849

It's always been that way (speaking from a 2 - UT grad home - one double UT undergrad/law school) Austin is a cool place. It's got the good things about Texas and much less of the bad. I love the place. But I refuse to live another day in a town that doesn't have a Trader Joe's <G> PS. Starting my put buyback today from the black Friday sales. Even though I thought this would happen, I'm amazed I get to buy em back at what I paid or less.

To: Live2Sail who wrote (47904)	1/30/2006 1:00:46 PM
From: John Vosilla	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

Jet Blue just added Austin. The good times have only just begun

To: Live2Sail who wrote (47904)	1/30/2006 6:45:05 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

My mom went to UT in the 1940's! She and my father, who was from Alabama, both loved Austin and the Texas hill country. The Austin they knew and loved isn't the Austin of today, but I think Austin always had appeal for those who had gone to UT, if they could find a job there. When my parents moved to Austin, I was in the seventh grade and my father had just been downsized from a corporation and was going to try starting his own business in 1963. Austin had a population of less than 250,000 people. Lamar blvd and I-35 were the two main N-S arteries. East Austin was where the minorities lived and the trailer trash lived in S. Austin. The main employers were UT and the State of Texas, period.