I've lived in both. Austin USED to be a great town. Now? Shoot, visited there a few years ago and was so incredibly disappointed.
I remembered smoke-filled blues bars; a wild attitude. Now......Austin has been pathetically California-ized. Went to a bar.....no smoking, everyone was sipping their waters as they waited for their tables to open up in the restaurant section.
Color me disgusted.
I, too, remember when Austin was a fun Texas town. Ya know, back the days before it became the eastern annex of Berkeley.