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Originally Posted by KevinFromTexas
That's wild. I haven't seen a deer anywhere here inside the city limits in at least 5 years. The last one I believe I saw was actually in my neighborhood, and I feel really bad about it because it had to have been lost. There is a creek that runs a few blocks from where I saw it. It's pretty much the only place I can think of where it might have come from. Seeing a deer like that is kind of like watching a whale beach itself. We have plenty of skunks, opossums, and raccoons, but seeing a deer around was really bizarre. They're everywhere outside of the city. I counted over 100 of them on the way back from the Hill Country one night just along the highway.
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Plenty of deer and coyotes left in my part of SW Austin just behind the Whole Foods/Costco shopping center. I know it's not the center of town, but it is still well within the city limits. I saw two deer behind Austin Pets Alive up along the railroad tracks a few months ago. That is the very edge of downtown.
Back on topic, I vote for Phoenix as the biggest change for an American city post WW2. Las Vegas is another big changer, but it was a gambling and resort mecca in 1950 and remains that today. Much bigger and splashier, but how much is it changed culturally/economically? Last 20 years and the winner is probably Austin. I've been here for 21 years, and this city looks and feels entirely different to me. San Jose also has gone through huge changes in the past 30 years as the computer and tech industry matured, but San Jose has been a pretty large city for longer than that. Prior to 1975 or 1980 or so it felt a lot like parts of Los Angeles (San Fernando or San Gabriel Valley) with no one dominant economic driver.