So your friend made some poor life choices, what's your point? I've lived in Austin a long time, I've liked it a lot, though have seen the negatives grow more

So your friend made some poor life choices, what's your point? I've lived in Austin a long time, I've liked it a lot, though have seen the negatives grow more than the positives in the past 5 years, but I don't know what anyone would take from your comparison. Your friend deliberately chose a shitty lifestyle. I have really little compassion for that because I'm always dumbfounded how little people value the time with their loved ones. His choice to fly back and forth from SV to Cleveland every week is certainly not that common, and definitely has nothing to do with the specifics of living in SV.