So everyone that lives in an outlying area and bikes the 5 miles to work is hurting the world and the 9 out of the 10 people that live downtown and work in outlying areas that drive to work daily are ...

Damn, you are stuck in the mud, mdahmus! You lost me when you said it's better for peopel to commute from downtown to outlying area rather than just live in the outlying areas and work in the outly...

Well shit - I guess immobilized trailers weren't all natural but at least they cared enough to work around the orchard instead of chainsawing the whole thing then saying, "A storm blew it down". Like...

They're not shitty pecan trees and a shitty trailer park. You don't seem to understand that the spirit of Austin, what makes Austin so cool it's beyond-cool, is revulsion for anything too fancy, shin...

On top of that - if the suburbs want to stop the sprawl, that's completely within their power, especially if those suburbs are in Hayes or Williamson or some other county not named Travis. It's not y...

Plus, that doesn't mean that I and many more people like me that have been running their mouths (as a vast majority in this case - check out the Statesman site) value the condos more than the trees. ...

Feel free to live in a condo. I'm not trying to stop you. I'm sure there will be plenty to go around after you graduate high school in a few more years. That doesn't mean that I will ever find them...

How many pedestrians cross on the red if there's no traffic coming and why don't drivers get as angry at pedestrians as they do at bikers who ignore red lights?...

Some people will ride the bus, but I really do not see most of society cashing in their Mobil card for a monthly bus pass....

Even with gas prices high, nobody is going to take a bus to work when they can drive, and absolutely nobody is going to take a bus to HEB, Best Buy, and the Domain when they can drive until it becomes...

Shit man, I just looked up home prices for new construction very near here and I could apply for a 2 bedroom, 2 bath house for $80,000 today. Why the fuck would I ever want to live downtown in a cond...

How many times do I have to explain myself before what I am saying sinks into your hard head? If I have $300,000.00, prime US money, to spend on a home, why the hell would I want to live downtown whe...

I take that back. I know one condo owner but her condo is on MoPac near Spicewood Springs and she bought it years ago. I don't know a single person that lives in a downtown condo other than our illu...

Yes, Ryan, I am sick of this tired old conversation too. The bike conversation is an oldie too....

mdahmus, do you know a single condo owner? I don't. I do know a couple of wannabe condo renters that are holding out for the big inevitable crash since the market is flooded with condos that nobody ...

grapeape, what I am saying is that unaffordable condos that were built by out of towners for wealthy people that would never live in them and only have a superficial understanding of the Austin marke...

ratz, someday you're going to learn that you are not always right. Try not to kill yourself when that day happens. It's nice to have really really stupid people around to make the rest of us look li...

You can say that but I have a friend that's looking for a place downtown and claims that there is no shortage of out of state landlords that would love to rent their condos out even for the low low pr...

And you can stamp your feet and shake your fist and tell me I'm evil for wanting to live in a house instead of a condo, but... you're actually living in a house. I'm renting an apartment. By your lo...

I just think you guys are complete hypcrites, you've got unrealistic ideas about where and why and how people live, and not only that, you're like a mini-gestapo! You want ME to buy a condo, but you ...