Why are people unhappy with Austin?

largest metro in US w/o MLB, NFL, NBA or NHL and no world class museums

On the other hand, I think we compare pretty favorably to the other MSAs around our size:

Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC MSA 2,660,329 2,243,960 +18.56% Charlotte-Concord, NC-SC CSA 24 San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX MSA 2,558,143 2,142,508 +19.40% San Antonio-New Braunfels-Pearsall, TX Combined Statistical Area 25 Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA MSA 2,512,859 2,226,009 +12.89% Portland-Vancouver-Salem, OR-WA CSA 26 Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA MSA 2,397,382 2,149,127 +11.55% Sacramento-Roseville, CA CSA 27 Pittsburgh, PA MSA 2,370,930 2,356,285 +0.62% Pittsburgh-New Castle-Weirton, PA-OH-WV CSA 28 Austin-Round Rock-Georgetown, TX MSA 2,283,371 1,716,289 +33.04% 29 Las Vegas-Henderson-Paradise, NV MSA 2,265,461 1,951,269 +16.10% Las Vegas-Henderson, NV-AZ CSA 30 Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN MSA 2,256,884 2,137,667 +5.58% Cincinnati-Wilmington-Maysville, OH-KY-IN CSA 31 Kansas City, MO-KS MSA 2,192,035 2,009,342 +9.09% Kansas City-Overland Park-Kansas City, MO-KS CSA 32 Columbus, OH MSA 2,138,926 1,901,974 +12.46% Columbus-Marion-Zanesville, OH CSA 33 Indianapolis-Carmel-Anderson, IN MSA 2,111,040 1,887,877 +11.82% Indianapolis-Carmel-Muncie, IN CSA 34 Cleveland-Elyria, OH MSA

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