Joe Rogan's friends followed him to Texas. They all seem to hate it.

those youtube channels like 2lazy2try should sue this writer for clearly ripping off their work and mentioning them with no specific credits

These people are the biggest idiots on earth.

who cares?

A former prosecutor turned legal commentator I once followed, Emily D. Baker, moved to Texas from L.A…. making me wonder what right minded person would EVER do that.

Who would want to live in the heart of the confederacy??

California is superior in every way to Texas.

Austin was a nice city and community with a good progressive vibe before all the rich transplants moved there for all the wrong reasons, basically to pay less taxes. Imagine earning ten or more million dollars of income annually and not wanting to pay your fair share of taxes, so you change the life you knew for another life style in a city/state with much less taxes along with other selfish bros. How is that going to be as good or better than the place you left?

It ain't.

I think the people who have moved who like it are the ones who were barely getting by - and who wanted a house for their kids, etc.

For those with money already? I don't understand it. There's a reason why certain places are HCOL. Weather, culture, restaurants, entertainment.

You're downgrading your nice life to have...a bigger home with higher property taxes in an area with worse weather, less entertainment options, similar or worse traffic?

Doesn't make sense to me. But enjoy that 7,000 sq ft home with the AC blasting 8 months a year with restaurant strip malls.

There is absolutely no reason for anyone with means to move to Texas from California.

Please stay in Texas.

Huh. I loved Austin to visit, and I'm a native Angeleno. Yes, I went in the summer when it was over 100 some days. I still loved it. Was it better than LA? No.

Austin briefly held out some hipster, indie music, different than the rest, cool place to be in an uncool state quality that was lost before it firmly took hold.

But never having set foot in Texas, my opinion is next to worthless filtration of hype.

I guess they tired to get an abortion or have sex with men.

Austin used to be decent. Not sure if that's changed.

Texas is hot. And with climate change will get hotter. That shoudn't have been a suprise.

And every city has homeless people. Dude obviously didn't get out much when he lived in CA.

Sorry, I don't have much sympathy for these whiny fools. Move or don't move. No one gives an f.

[quote] called Austin "a horrible city without a soul"

I agree, but when did LA obtain a soul?

R4 Isn't Austin one of the most liberal cities in the US?

R15 - Yeah - I was going to say - they're all about moving to red states and supporting Trump and right-wing crap and then they....live in the most liberal city.

[quote] I think the people who have moved who like it are the ones who were barely getting by - and who wanted a house for their kids, etc.

And that seems like how it should be. This weird NOBODY MUST EVER LEAVE mentality that some people in big cities have is so odd to me. Every big city has the same problem, too many people, not enough jobs for them, and not enough housing. Hell, yeah, get the fuck out if you want, should be the damn motto of every oversized, overpopulated city. Instead, there always seems to be this odd defensiveness about the whole thing.

R17 - I don't think anyone thinks that in big cities (except maybe New Yorkers - I experienced that a lot).

It's more the constant articles about "everyone from California or New York are moving here" - when it's only a few hundred and those are heavily populated states.

People move to and from large cities all the time - they always have. But now it's being used as some sort of city booster campaign.

However, I will admit - the options have also increased 10x fold in the past 15-20 years due to internet and the proliferation of food and art scenes in other 2nd tier cities.

A lot of cities in the US were pokey and dull outside of the top 5 or top 10. Not so much anymore.

Joe Rogan lives on an isolated paradise compound, he's obscenely and absurdly rich. A property like his has to have a whole team of servants and workers. His BUM friends had to follow him there. Being his friend is their entire career.

[quote] he's obscenely and absurdly rich

All that proves is it doesn't take brains or talent to get ahead in show business.

I’ve never stepped foot in the south and I never will. However, my latest YouTube obsession is this (non dramatic) lady who describes Appalachian cooking.

I’m going to make cornbread in an iron skillet!

Stupid's gonna stupid.

Well, fuck, r21, if cooking like that is all it takes to get famous, I’m missing out.

Anyway, did those idiots not realize that Texas is run by maggots who believe in Texas isolationism? Did they miss the part of Fled Cruz running off to Cancun when the power grid crashed in the winter? Or how their grid can’t cope in the summer?

I mean, isn’t Texas the “heaven” for all libertardians and maggots? What the fuck are they bitching about?THIS DUMB SHIT IS WHAT THEY WANT FOR THE ENTIRE COUNTRY FFS!

These people who move there for bigger homes to raise families in… don’t they care about the underfunded, Bible Belt schools where their kids will be “educated”?

I lived in Austin almost 40 years ago. It was a hyperliberal city where you could be yourself and no one judged you. I would go to Hippie Hollow (Texas' public nude beach), lie naked on my back on a raft and watch the fraternity men get naked and drunk there. Manscaping wasn't thought about. It was glorious.

[quote] This weird NOBODY MUST EVER LEAVE mentality

No one is saying that. California has 40 million people, if 10% want to leave I say hell yeah! Less traffic, more affordable housing, people who want to be here etc. It's MAGA who loves to tout the 1% who actually leave for Texas and Florida like it's some mass exodus which it's not.

The flaw in MAGA logic is that CA wants to be the most populist state, like it's a goal. I can tell you it's not. The only reason it is like that is because it's one of the most desirable states to live it. But they don't get that part, they want to twist it into some thing about losing the race to have the most people.

So dumb. If they don't like LA they should just move to San Diego, where you can have an idyllic life if you have a lot of money.

The whole Texas vs California thing is all about money. You get your start in CA where creatively, resources, brain trust and seed money are abundant. You then move to Texas where all of that is gone but taxes are super low. Blame CA just before you move. Rinse and Repeat.

Looking at YOU ELON.

r24, there will often be a good public school or two in a wealthy district even in cities in the South that will have the necessary AP classes and other opportunities to make sure the kids of the well off can get into a good college. It's not like all the schools are shit. Just most. And there's always some private prep school if for some reason one of those good public schools isn't an option.

I've been heatsick in the summer in Orlando and New Orleans, but neither was as bad and exhausting as summer in Austin.

Downtown is hilly, and there are young hipsters with rickshaws who will pull you uphill for a dollar a block or something. I don't know how they don't die

When you follow an imbecile…..

I never knew Texas was trashy and full of mullets and red neck morons!

Who has time to listen to podcasts all day?

Agree r1

Ripped straight from him. I just watched these episodes.

Apropos of nothing, I would suck Mark Normand until his head caved in.

Stupid fucks

Any rich person who decides to live in Texas deserves to be miserable. That's just an inexcusable level of stupidity.

R27 The last thing I want is these fucking ghouls moving in to Del Mar or something

[quote]R33 Who has time to listen to podcasts all day?

They’re good while driving, and for falling asleep to.

Wouldn’t live in the sunbelt if you paid me.

They're not wrong.

I moved to Texas for a phenomenal job - it pays twice what I'd make to do the same job in Colorado or Virginia, and believe me, I keep checking - but I won't make it my permanent home. I don't own property here, and with the taxes the way they are, I never will. I live pretty well with the high salary, zero state income tax, and lots of money set aside for later. When I'm ready to move back up north, I'll be one rich old queen.

Climate change is real. I can feel the UV rays penetrate my skin harder than ever. It's gotten hotter.

Invest in housing in cooler climate northern city properties where there's access to fresh water, free of earthquakes, floods, tsunami and tornadoes.

Texas is getting to be like Arizona where children can't play outside because they fall on the sidewalk and get 2nd degree burns.

[quote]"Texas f--king blows"

True, that's why it's so windy in Oklahoma.

[quote] Apropos of nothing, I would suck Mark Normand until his head caved in.

Since many comedians die by suicide, your services may not be needed.

R44 So Duluth Minnesota?

Joe Rogan's house looks quite gay inside.

I can’t believe the meathead from NewsRadio is the guru of our age

Did Andy Dick follow him to Texas, or is that restraining order still in place?

I think it looks blandly stylish in a very impersonal way, r48. I doubt he picked up a single piece of furniture himself or made any kind of decision. It's the home of someone with zero interest in design. It reminds me of Kelly Ripa's in the sense that the owner's personality is not present.

[quote]They’re good while driving, and for falling asleep to.

At the same time?

[quote]Joe Rogan's friends followed him to Texas.

Their first mistake.

R48 it’s well known that he likes to try and get guys to jerk off with him in hot tubs.

Yes he talks about that with his bros on every podcast, R54. Everyone knows about it.

California doesn't want them.

R38 why is there a set of armchairs in front of a bathtub in his home

Anti-California rhetoric is definitely a thing in right wing/bro spaces. Here in Nevada, every problem is blamed on Californians moving here. I think it's deliberate, to get dumb people hating on blue states.

We're supposed to hate California, the world's 4th largest economy but cheer on poor shithole states like Oklahoma and Louisiana. Makes so much sense. At least these fools are FAFOing in Texas.

i'm from the east coast and just spent 8 days in the austin area. it's different. the infrastructure things I noticed were that the roads were terrible considering the lack of snow in that part of the world. and the cell service was terrible, in the city, outside, everywhere. even the airport

Right wing hate for California is just the new "San Francisco Values." It's a dog whistle for right wingers that paints California as effete, Commie and queer. Texas of course represents the opposite.

This isn't complicated. They're dumb people, they can only understand simple-minded concepts. "California = gay, Texas = manly man."

R60 Wait til they see how many queers and brownies live in Texas.

[quote]why is there a set of armchairs in front of a bathtub in his home

The article says it's the "master bathroom." Doesn't everyone put upholstered armchairs in their bathroom for visitors who want to watch you take a bath?

I think it's true that he probably hired some expensive interior designer and let them do whatever they wanted, but isn't that a pretty gay decision in itself? A lot of straight men would just say "make it look like a mancave" and be turned off by all the fussy design elements.

You hear the same stories about rich Californians who moved to Las Vegas to escape the taxes. They hate it. The heat is oppressive and there's nothing to do unless you're a compulsive gambler.

[quote]Isn't Austin one of the most liberal cities in the US?

Lol no, hon. It's the most liberal city in TEXAS. That places it to the left of Salt Lake City and to the right of Minneapolis. It's not even "a liberal city" by any measure.

Most Texas cities are an endless hellhole of highways and suburban sprawl, completely devoid of character. Whatever uniqueness Austin had disappeared 20+ years ago.

[quote] And there's always some private prep school if for some reason one of those good public schools isn't an option.

That's actually one of the complaints of the NY expats in Miami. There's like two elite schools for their kids. Gulliver's travelers or something like that.

That and that there's no high culture arts committees etc for the rich ladies to pass their time with.

I used to work with a woman who moved to Texas from Northern CA where I live. On the surface she was friendly and charming but underneath she was a shockingly crazed gun nut. She moved to Texas with her Jewish partner for a big house. She's not happy. He's now ill and instead of a secret right wing wacko in a liberal area she's the crazy oddball lady from California. Can't afford to move back.

I didn't know she was so horrid until one day the subject of guns came up. She grew up in Central CA, which can be very conservative, and loves her guns. It's almost like she entered a trance on the subject. It was scary.

I've been to Texas several time on business. Too hot, humid, and backwards religiosity for me.

Secretly, Joe Rogan hates it too. But he's spent too much to build that studio and his life there - and he could never admit it to his followers. He feels trapped there - but I'd have to suspect he gets out of there more often than we know.

He still owns a place in California. Always has. He just sold one of his properties before he moved to Texas - a smaller home he had.

He's just a 5'5", short-tempered, loud-mouthed goomba from Jersey. They are a dime a dozen. How he has captured the male American's heart is beyond me. But a lot of guys respond to a tough talker. I don't understand it. Insecure, small-minded men.

Re: hating on California.

Growing up, my mom constantly bitched about California for some reason. A lot of people did where I grew up in BFE Ohio.

As a kid, I thought people in California ran around naked, popping pills, snorting “angel dust” and shooting each other over the color of your underwear (maybe you all were naked so you didn’t get shot for wearing the wrong color drawers?)

Honestly, that’s what I thought, because that’s all I ever heard when California was brought up.

Why my mom (a true blue Democrat since JFK) thought California was the devil’s den is beyond me.

So all of the crazy California hate is real, unfounded and has been around for decades.

As for me - I would love to visit one day. Yosemite, especially. It looks beautiful.

R69 - it's not just those areas - I lived in NYC for a long time and my mom is from Manhattan. There was very much an east coast-west coast 'rivalry' with California. I had an unnatural dislike for California and really it was for no reason?

I had been to California a few times before I moved here and there were always parts I liked and parts I didn't. I still dislike the chaos and the driving and spread-out nature of LA and the superficiality of it. But LA is not all of California.

I've lived in San Diego and Palm Springs for about 7 years now and I only regret I didn't do it earlier. However, I do think SD and PS were very different places 20 years ago - I know SD was a bit more red than the solid blue it is today.

My point is that there has been an anti-California sentiment since probably the 1960s. Just like there was a huge anti-NYC sentiment for a looong time, that only seemed to dissipate in the last 10-15 years.

The biggest places/cities always get a lot of hate. But I still say that my Texas hate is well-founded and logical.

[quote]I thought people in California ran around naked, popping pills, snorting “angel dust”

You mean they don't? There go my vacation plans.

Downtown Austin has been torn down and replaced with generic, soulless towers. There’s very little left with any character.

Has anyone eaten at Sandra Bullock's cafe in Austin called Walton's Fancy & Staple? It's a cute little breakfast/lunch place.

What kind of absurd name is "Walton's Fancy & Staple"?

R59, I can attest to that, all the way from my out-of-state perch.

My middle sister lives in a ritzy bedroom community 30 mins from Houston as the crow flies, and I'm only happy when we're chatting if she's outside obsessively maintaining her gorgeous grounds, landscaping, and pool.

Because EVERY FUCKING TIME she's in her house while on the phone to me her call drops at least once every 2-5 minutes. INSIDE the house, really?

It's so damned annoying.

That's hilarious about cell service. They're really not caught up yet I guess. Between that and the power outages it sounds like living in an undeveloped country.

Is indoor plumbing standard yet? Electric lights? TV transmitters?

R69, yes, do come visit. My great-grandparents came to CA in the early 1900s from Ohio. They embraced the wild and crazy and led interesting lives. I live in a very progressive area but you'd be surprised how normal and kind people are. They may hold progressive views but they live as stewards of the earth. Gardens, out door activities, respect for LGBT and immigrants, concern for people and place.

Crazy mean people come in all political stripes, and really good, caring people are everywhere. One difference between the current groups of left and right is the belief in live and let live. GOP power brokers want to punish anyone who doesn't fit into their grifting, intolerant, greedy, and cruel ways.

As i got older, r77, I realized the California that my MOM was referring to is the one run by Raygun and giving rise to Nixon (whom she hated).

It was also where Bobby Kennedy was shot and killed, which made it state non grata in her mind.

But Texas was ok because of LBJ. Even though he was a “sonofabitch”.

I'm originally from New England, so I don't like to dwell on weather as a drawback to a particular location. However, the humidity in Texas alone is enough of a disadvantage to rule out Texas as a viable place to live.

That, and too many fucking Republicans.

She resented CA for being the place where Bobby Kennedy was killed but she didn't feel the same way about Texas and JFK, r78?

It’s almost like you get what you pay for, but in reality it sounds like northern flyoverstan is a better deal even with the shitty winter.

I know a handful of these adult conservatives who grew up in and around big cities and then moved to these red state “utopias”. They all ended up regretting it. It’s a reason everybody and they mama wants to live in LA, NY, DC, Philly, Boston, Seattle. Unlimited options and beautiful people. They wish so bad they woulda just stayed in a suburb of said cities. Oh well. Like the rolling-stones said, You don’t get what you want, you get what you need.

I know, r80!

Mom logic doesn’t always jive.

Maybe she thought that California was irredeemable because of Nixon, Bobby and Raygun? Like three strikes? IDK

Yes, taxes in Cally are high but you get a lot of services (I know, cue up the contrarian trolls).

I visited Austin in the early and mid 1990s and it was such a nice city. A friend of mine had moved there in the mid 1980s and he kept inviting me to go, and I went two times and I really liked the vibe.

I visited for the third time in 2023, and man what a major difference and a disappointment. While change is inevitable, this was very much for the worse. It seems soulless now.

Lol at his house. It looks like a penitentiary and the gray 'grand entrance' looks like a gulag. What a little choad

[quote]it sounds like living in an undeveloped country.

[quote]Is indoor plumbing standard yet? Electric lights? TV transmitters?

Constant rolling brown-and black outs summer and winter (if temp gets below 30°F). Tout the ability to shop around for quality-yet-affordable electricity/gas services, when in reality those companies will rip you off and stiff you on services you're paying for, while their Public Service Commision takes lobbyists $$$ and do fuck-all for its citizens.

HOA Nazis up and in your ass, who should spend their time lobbying Austin about the shit infrastructure.

How would Elaine Stritch fare in Texas?

This sounds like one of those CNN or Business Insider articles about American expats moaning about their overseas experience. " We had no idea... Nice place to visit, but..."

It's harder to move overseas for 2-3 months or more to get a flavor for living there (and costly) for the average schmoe. But these douche bros have the money, means, and opportunity to give it a try out before going in whole hog. Plus, they can probably expense it all or get a hefty tax write off. But, no! Their blinding arrogance and overestimates of their intelligence and ability...

R89 you see 😆. This is why DL is the illest.

I like it when a born and bred New Yorker defies expectation and embraces everything L.A. has to offer. I recently read an appreciation by a writer, Janice Van Horne, who moved there from New York in 1960 and stayed for over three decades:

[quote]"I always had a good time in L.A. A good-time town, as far as one could get from New York and yet still feel in the mainstream. A heterogeneous soup of colors and languages. Where else would I have had my aura cleansed, have been counseled by a psychic nutritionist in the art of dangling a crystal over an avocado in the supermarket to test its toxicity to my energy flow, have traveled afar to attend clandestine channeling sessions, have consulted a mantric healer, have been advised by a psychic astrologist, have my chakras cleared, have been Rolfed, have been treated regularly by acupuncturists and herbalists, and have been massaged every way to Sunday and back?"

I want to blow him so bad.

I heard Texas has really aggressive HOAs to make up for the lack of zoning laws, r87. It sounds like a shitty way of doing things.

Yes, R93, and yes.

And Greater Houston is out of control with the random sprawl; it's a bit like any prospect for reasonable gun control in this country--it's already so bad and out of control people just sigh and believe it's just too hard to tamp down and not make the situation even worse.