Austinites like to "keep it weird," but a growing number of them are unhappy with the direction the city is going.
Recent polling from the Austin Monitor shows 57-percent of residents think the city is 'headed in the wrong direction' with its progressive policies.
"You have kids that aren't educated. You have crime that is out of control. And you have taxes that are set on surge," says James Quintero, policy director for the Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Government for the People initiative.
Quintero says plummeting school enrollment numbers prove it.
"They refuse to lower taxes. They refuse to improve the quality of services by finding efficiency. They refuse to do what's necessary to run a city that accounts for a declining population," he says.
"Folks who have no option, who don't have the resources to flee are stuck with the bill."
Quintero says progressives around the state should take notice.
"It's contributing to a lot of excess, in terms of crime. So its perpetuating a bad quality of life," he says. "People are recognizing that in virtually every major city in Texas and they're moving out. They're voting with their feet."
At the same time, tech companies are flooding the market with California transplants, driving rent prices through the roof, pricing out longtime residents.
That leads to the poll question this morning.