Austin is in a state, (Texas), with a lot of pending issues coming to roost... education, traffic, migration, water/drought, social safety net. As much as I love my native state, I don't see any leadership addressing these.
All the things you mentioned are pretty bad in California. Public education is terrible, traffic is outrageous, there is a huge immigration 'problem', and the forest fires are pretty bad. To each his own but Californian leadership isn't really that great.
I just can't decide who is worse Perry or Brown.
They are constantly bitching that Texas isn't California or NY.
130,000 people are expected to immigrate to Austin in the next 2 years. Insane!
I actually favor more open immigration, my grandparents were some of those mexicans who came illegally and had a great life.