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Ha oh geeze. Austin scenery is nowhere as beautiful as Pittsburgh's. Like that other poster said, only Seattle, SF, and Portland really compare in that category.
Not to downplay Pittsburgh, but I don't think it's that high up.
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Pittsburgh's topography is beautiful; it's really not a subject for debate. But Austin should not be undersold, either. It's in a rather strange location, straddling the boundary of the Hill Country. The east side of the city and beyond is as flat as a pancake; the west side and beyond is breathtaking.
I much prefer Austin weather to Pittsburgh, especially right now, but the topography of Pittsburgh is generally much prettier than Austin: more rivers, bigger hills and the human enhancements of those natural advantages are better in Pittsburgh, especially the bridges!
Though ultimately, winters in Austin and summers in Pittsburgh. El Paso has the most dramatic and beautiful backdrop of any city in Texas, Austin would be second. Pittsburgh has easily the most beautiful natural environs of any city in PA, but that bar is not particularly high.
You picked a bad example. 10 years ago, the Oasis was pretty, but not spectacular, and it is definitely not in the Austin city limits. Now there is very little water in Lake Travis, and one has to cope with arguably one of the ugliest restaurant/retail complexes in the U.S ( Vegas on the cheap in the hillocks of Central Texas), serving unarguably the worst Tex-Mex food in the world, in order to peer through pseudo Tuscan McMansions of unspeakable architectural horror at a collection of sandbars in a shriveled up dam. The Oasis is now hideous.
There are beautiful places in Austin: Red Bud Isle, Mount Bonnell, and Austin has pretty geography, and gorgeous for Texas, but in terms of its natural environs, it is no Pittsburgh.
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Pennybacker Bridge in winter. Austin, Texas
