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Austin is more of a "real city" than Raleigh. Skyscrapers, downtown nightlife, mass transit, live music, and "weirdness". That is Austin. Austin has a soul and an identity in a way that no town in North Carolina has. I live in NC so take my word for it.
Here are some pics of Austin.
photos courtesy of flickr
Like I said, Austin is a different "animal" than Raleigh. I would highly suggest you visit both towns in person before you decide.
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All of those photos are correct.
However, unless you have lots of money to spend to live on the hilly west side, or central, you'll be seeing a lot more of the freeway traffic scenes, strip-malls, etc than you might think. The things people usually knock the other Texas cities on -- sprawl, strip malls, car-centric, conservative (gasp!) cookie-cutter suburbs, traffic, intense summer heat -- Austin has all this too.
There has been a terrible drought recently, the lake is really low, and things aren't as green. I suspect those nicer photos were not taken recently.
As far as the comparison to Raleigh... I don't know because I've never been to Raleigh. Sorry. But, I have lived in Austin and think it's a great college town, but a little overrated aside from that.
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Isn't the COL in Austin rising very quickly? That happens to most cities that everyone suddenly decides they want to live in.
This was posted in the Austin forum... things were getting crazy, developers building super expensive housing, now a few of the developments are in foreclosure... people are worried about the overpriced condos in downtown as well... Austin probably had more of a "bubble" than the rest of Texas. Two area real estate projects in financial trouble - Austin Business Journal:
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