“Looking for some sane area not too far from here...”
I hear Austin is nice.
Austin did seem very nice (in some areas) when I was flown there to interview in the late 1990’s. I had no idea of the hard-left ideology there.
There was also the abandoned Applebee’s at the abandoned shopping mall not too far from my hotel (I was at the Baymont).
I remember being shocked at the abandoned place at the time.