I spent a few months in Austin, my experience was that the laws being different seemed to make things a bit better. Instead of encountering the same person under odd circumstances dozens of times, I would encounter the same person under odd circumstances a few times, about as far as the pretext permitted. Again, because of the stalking and harassment laws, it was easier to cope with and well within reason.

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Inversely, I spent the months I was there in a hotel and unfortunately hotels allow a degree of freedom hard to otherwise achieve because of the amount of flux in people coming and going. So, inside and around the hotel was sort of bad, but it always is. Outside in the city itself there was a little bit, but the laws keep it to a point where it's not overly noticeable/something you can mostly disregard. It was the place where I encountered for the first time apparently tampered with news on the television, so there must have been something with the cable or similar, but it was mostly inconsequential. I'd generally try to avoid hotels and other such circumstances where people have an inherent pretext for coming and going, where you could end up with a different neighbor every day of the week, but that holds for everyplace thus far.

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The place I was there visiting was a bit like the hotel but because the people themselves didn't get to change frequently (same people every day), it was mostly like being out in the city but slightly louder in terms of some of the behaviors, but generally speaking inconsequential.

Oddly, Las Vegas doesn't seem to have the same extent of issues in hotels and it's not entirely clear why. There's some nuance of law somewhere that varies behaviors but it's not precisely clear what it is. I've not yet been able to fully identify the common denominator between locations and places.