Be very careful with this decision. Austin has a reputation and the name of the city moves lovingly across the lips of starry-eyed dreamers, but I must warn you that Austin these days is an East-Coast city in the middle of Texas. I am from a town in Kansas that probably would have made a great sister city to Austin in the 80s (Lawrence), and so I understand viscerally what people love about Austin. But enough people from the east coast and Los Angeles have diluted almost all of the things that once made Austin special. Real Austinites do exist, and they are as cool as you have heard, but they have moved and live outside of Austin in places like Elgin or New Braunsfels. The city does not live up to its reputation, unlike other places (for example Portland is as weird as you hear about and Austin doesn&#x27;t hold a candle to that weirdness). Just an opinion from a guy that&#x27;s lived in a bunch of places.