Texas is as Texas does.<p>Don&#x27;t get me wrong, Austin is probably the best city in Texas, but it&#x27;s still in Texas.<p>Honestly, I think only New York and Los Angeles really qualify as &quot;global&quot; cities in the US.  Chicago, San Francisco, Boston, and DC would be a step below that, and then it gets harder to define - Seattle, Minneapolis, Austin, Atlanta, Charlotte, and a number of other cities could be considered a third tier, depending on the criteria you use (major companies based there, cultural attractions, etc.) But again, that gets much more subjective.