Live music capital of the world
Austin, Texas sits in the Hill Country along the Colorado River, a city that built its identity on live music, the University of Texas, and a stubborn weirdness it has tried hard to preserve through decades of explosive growth. The Sixth Street and Red River corridors host more live music venues per capita than almost anywhere in the country, and South by Southwest draws the global creative industry every spring. Austin is now one of the fastest-growing tech hubs in North America, but the breakfast tacos and the bats under Congress Avenue Bridge remain nonnegotiable.
