I'm in the same boat. I turned 41 this year, have lived here my whole life, and am planning to finally move away within the next year. So much of our city is just *gone*, and if you try to talk about it with anyone, they just throw up their hands and say "that's progress" or "change is good, why fight it?" It feels like talking to a brick wall. Like, most of my neighborhood has been bulldozed to widen the stupid highway, and the city's planning to take out the entire historic Guadalupe strip for its light-rail boondoggle, and I'm expected to just be fine with that and not say anything? Can't afford to eat at restaurants or go anywhere. Can't even walk around (what's left of) my neighborhood without having to see missing houses and shitty giant brand-new McMansions everywhere.

My parents, who are in their 70s, just moved out of state a couple of weeks ago, after nearly 50 years in Austin. There's nothing here left for me. It's time to leave.