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If you're looking for an apartment in a growing and artistic community known for its vibrant music scene and non-stop activity, then you'll love living in Austin.
Austin apartments are located in central Texas in the heart of scenic Hill Country. The capital of Texas, it's also the fourth largest city in the state. Austin has a reputation for its beauty. The Colorado River cuts through the center of town, creating a natural north-south division. South of the Congress Avenue Bridge, the main thoroughfare that leads directly to the State Capitol Building, is the seat of the arts community. The area is marked by residential properties, vintage clothing stores and locally owned businesses, including coffee shops and kitschy motels. North of Congress is the downtown district with high rises, restaurants, bars and theaters. It's bustling and noisy, frequently congested with cars and pedestrians vying for space. It's also where you'll find the 2nd Street District with upscale designer shops.
Weird is anything but in Austin. The city is an avid supporter of alternative culture and home to artists, scholars and politicos who find shelter in the community's progressive environment. While much of Texas is known for its conservative political stance, Austin became something of an island unto itself. Its natural beauty, arts-centric culture and top-notch colleges and universities have resulted in a population explosion. Residents, protective of their local flavor, coined the phrase Keep Austin Weird. The expression also became a way of signaling dismay at the area's rapid overdevelopment, increasing commercialism and expanding number of chain stores and restaurants.
When you rent an apartment in Austin, you'll have your choice of great things to do. Wildlife enthusiasts who are looking for a weird and wonderful adventure should head over to the Congress Avenue Bridge at dusk when roughly 1.5 million Mexican free-tail bats wing their way into the night sky to feast on insects. Plus, in Austin, you get live music, every day of the week, no kidding. Austin bills itself as the Live Music Capital of the World with more music venues than anywhere in the nation. One of its premiere events is South by Southwest. This annual event started as a small music festival and blossomed into a music, film and interactive conference with 80 stages and a line up of some 1,800 bands, plus a host of the best and brightest talents in the interactive industry featured in panel discussions and distributed on podcasts.
Austin apartment residents are always near beautifully maintained greenspaces. In fact, Austin has 200 parks and miles upon miles of hiking, biking and nature trails. If your apartment is near downtown Austin, you'll enjoy the newly named Lady Bird Park with its popular, well-groomed 10.1-mile trail around the lake. Barton Creek Greenbelt is another beautiful hiking and biking trail that is more removed from the noise of downtown. If golf is king in your world, you'll be glad to know that the city maintains five public links: Hancock (the oldest golf course in the state), Jimmy Clay and Roy Kizer (together, they form a 36-hole complex), Lions (a popular municipal course) and Morris Williams (the most challenging of the five).
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