boomtown
The City of the Eternal Boom

Feb 24, 2016 — By Michael Hall

A hipster paradise, a high-tech nirvana, a festival wonderland. Today Austin barely resembles the sleepy college town I moved to in the seventies. How it changed is the story of a lifetime.

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