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if one loves a small town, or a suburban atmosphere and grows up in that or has lived in it for a long time, anything that is a marked difference will be very strange.
I moved to austin for a year back about 8-9 years ago, from Houston TX, and I felt like I had been transplanted to a fucking hick backwater. Now, Austin is a medium sized city, with some very nice things going fro it, but compared to Houston, with it's over 6 thousand restaurants from over 200 different nations, with it's 3 art museums, and myriad art galleries, with it's theatres and it's symphony and opera and ballet and it's pro sports teams and the affordable housing of all types....well, austin couldn;t compare.
however,. if you are coming from a small town like Brenham or Alvin Texas or a smaller city like Amarillo or Lubbock, then Austin can seem to be a wonderland.
I fucking hated it.
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