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There was a college, the capital, hippies and black people.
Prior to the tech boom Austin and central Texas was a place that you could be close to live music, great food, a "city", and the country all at the same time. It wasn't even considered as much of a city as San Antonio was. After the 90s the entirety of central Texas has changed. It's a place to settle and raise a family, with good schools, decent weather, see some culture and still call your self a city dweller even though it's more of just a continuous sprawl and creep. It's appeal though is definitely with tech, live music, good food, good living, affordable living, nice landscape, and continuous development. From Georgetown down to San Antonio I think you'd be hard pressed to find a more "liveable" region in this country.
The traffic sucks though and hipsterdom and gentrification ruin everything, so even things that were legitimately cool at one point are becoming watered down and the "in thing".
The gulf coast has jobs as long as oil and gas has jobs. And that's hard to beat a lot of the times from the standpoint of stability. The region is affordable, the sprawl is real, but the highway system does a decent enough job of keeping up. If you like the coast, you're set, but it's in little ways a pretty coast. Most of it stinks, the sand is shitty, and even the food isn't that great. But it's close enough to New Orleans without having to live in Lousiana. And Houston has a great craft beer scene as well as crawfish.
I couldn't tell you about Laredo (the south) or El Paso (the west) I've heard they do a good job of mimicking the areas they're close to, while still being Texas enough to separate them. I
Up north you have the panhandle and the Dallas region. I don't know much about the panhandle except that it does snow and Lubbock is a terrible place with terrible people.
I feel the same way about Dallas, but I hate most things Dallas and I can't give a fair assessment of it.
As far as east Texas, backwoods racism, fundie Christians, and good footballers the end. ------
“There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.” -Albert Camus
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