I just looked up a profile of a guy I once interviewed with long ago. He’s still in Austin. I must admit it was nice in some areas long ago.
That being said, I also saw an Applebee’s closed in what looked like an abandoned mall. That kind of surprised me. It was before all the major malls were collapsing.
Sure, there’s some VERY nice areas. Mansions of very wealthy CEOs and celebs. Then there’s east of I-35 but it’s being... oh, that nasty word libs hate... gentrified. And being gentrified by those same libs. Sort of like their opinion of the wall, huh. Hypocrites.