Georgetown is alright. Really turning into an Austin satellite at this point. It and pflugerville are where they shoved all the black people and Hispanics when the gentrification began. So it's got a lot more character, and a lot less vegan, cat friendly, coffee bars. I like Austin, but it's not the town I grew up in anymore. It used to be where old hippies lived, where things were a bit more liberal, where good barbecue, live music, and college football was your weekend. I remember going to every UT home game, every year as a kid.
Now it's a place where vintage bicycles, mustache wax, man buns, safe zones, and cat cafes reign. Yeah you can still see UT play, but they've been terrible since Mac brown left. You can still get good barbecue but it's got a radicchio reduction glazed over it. You can still hear live music but there's no talent in the artists. Festivals, a lack of national championships, and Californians turned what used to be the blueberry in Texas' tomato soup into a rainbow colored mess. Georgetown, Del Vale, Pfleugerville, and parts of round rock are where the old Austin went to die.
I go back once a year. Usually around thanksgiving. And sit and wonder what has happened to the place. Where my town went. Personally I think it went to San Antonio and hasn't looked back. If I moved back, I'd be looking at Lockhart, just to sit in range of the smoke coming off of Kreuz market, and salivate over beef ribs and brisket. Remember wearing my "Run Ricky Run!" Shirt, and thumping watermelons outside of heb (before they stopped selling fried catfish, and started selling orangina) and wishing I could resurrect Ann Richards.
