While cool, LA has all the bad parts of Austin exemplified; actually ridiculous housing, insanely bad traffic, a lot more taxes, cool and weird people are greatly outnumbered by douches, a real serious drought, and I can't shoot guns.
I am being totally honest with you when I say that I ran into more and bigger douches in Austin than I ever did in Los Angeles. LA has a reputation, as well, and certainly deserves a lot of it, but also I was surprised that Austin had such a huge population of douchebags. They're everywhere! And mostly from what I understand from friends, the douchebags are the imports. People that bring their anger from Elsewhere.