Yea I'm not moving there, but I'm pretty sure they'll figure out the water issue as they always do. My point was more that there's probably 8-10 metro areas th

Yea I'm not moving there, but I'm pretty sure they'll figure out the water issue as they always do. My point was more that there's probably 8-10 metro areas that fall into the "second-tier", but Austin somehow gets pretty consistently thrown out as some alternative to the valley. But the numbers play out a bit differently. In terms of VC investments, Austin is yes..second-tier (really 3rd, b/c NYC, LA, and Boston make a case for being the 2nd and everyone else is well behind them)..right there with Miami, Chicago, DC, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Dallas, etc. In other words...it's just a regular city that has an ok tech scene. Not to say that VC money is the only metric by which we should judge, but it's a pretty decent barometer.