I get a wild hair once in a while to revisit the street we lived on for 20+ years in Austin - online that is. Looking at building permits shows that the little 1950s houses on either side of our old house are being demolished and replaced with modern 5 BR, 4.5 bath houses with 3 car garages, heated pools, cabanas, blah, blah. Multiple old trees are being cut down to make way for these ugly fancy houses and their pools. So sad...It was a sweet, leafy neighborhood with down to earth people for decades but the nouveau riche techies have to have the centrally located big white ugly modern farmhouse style abodes. Our sweet old house will no doubt be next. We paid $135K in 1999. The new ones will go for $2 mil and up.
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