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About Austin, Texas
Austin, the state capitol of Texas, is a technology center and a creative hub.
As mentioned on Wikipedia.org:
Residents of Austin are known as "Austinites," and include a diverse mix of university professors, students,
politicians, lobbyists, musicians, state employees, high-tech workers,
blue-collar workers, and white-collar workers. The main campus of the University
of Texas is located in Austin. The city is home to enough large sites of major
technology corporations to have earned it the nickname "Silicon Hills." Austin's
official slogan promotes the city as "The Live Music Capital of the World", a
reference to its status as home to many musicians and music venues. In recent
years, many Austinites have also adopted the unofficial slogan
"Keep Austin Weird"; this refers partly to the eclectic and progressive
lifestyle of many Austin residents, but is also the slogan for a campaign
to preserve smaller local businesses and resist excessive commercialization.
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