- Traffic (goes without saying in most booming US cities). Infrastructure is largely unchanged since the 70s. Poorly mismanaged toll roads are instead implemented. Drivers are fucking god-awful (seriously, nowhere in the Northeast was it as bad as it is in the South -- something about the heat). With no short or long term solution in sight for remedying the traffic that worsens every day, makes me worry about staying here much longer, let alone buy property.
- Homeless. Many TX (and other US cities for that matter) cities have no qualms about giving their homeless one-way bus tickets to here. They're nasty too. Even more nasty than NYC's homeless. City has no idea what to do about it.
- Despite there being plenty of new apartment complexes near downtown being erected, there's still lots of obstinacy to increasing housing density. Also some of the most bizarre zoning laws I've ever seen (don't get me started on what Austin considers "historical").
- While there are many outdoor places to hike and whatnot, many of the day hikes are largely the same scenery. Places in Austin will get packed with loud and disrespectful UT students. I miss actual mountains and dense woods.
- Each month or so, some cool and irreplaceable bar/restaurant/music venue that's been around for decades closes down (mainly due to rising property taxes with no ceiling in sight). What replaces them is often some generic crap millennial chain seen in other tech hubs.
- They say it's the Live Music Capital of the World, but they don't tell you that 95% of the music sucks (and much like the previous point, the city continues day-by-day to become more hostile to artists in general).
- Some would say the heat, but it personally doesn't bother me. It's a relatively dry heat in the summer anyway. Better than humid Northeast summers.