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Originally Posted by austintilIdie

Not so awesome. People act like East Austin just became cool yesterday. Though I grew up in central Austin, my father often took me to east Austin (aside from attending middle and high schools there) for church, food (El Azteca, Nuevo Leon etc0, music and semi pro baseball (at old Zaragosa Park). Up to and beyond 20 years ago, people would give you weird looks when they heard you hang out on the east side or cancel dinner plans over there when they saw they'd be going to meet us east of 35.

The coolness factor there now is not possible without the people in that community who are have and are now being priced out. The coolness factor now is nothing less than a racist code mantra to signal that now that hipsters and whites are colonizing east Austin, it's safe for white folk now to flock there.

I fixed your formatting for you.