“It doesn’t matter how liberal Austin is. You still live in Texas.”
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Good-bye parties are inherently not that fun. They’re even less fun when they’re driven by a far-right takeover of the state government. To hear Stettin tell it, that is precisely why he is moving out of what Rick Perry once described as the “blueberry in the tomato soup,” a predominantly Democratic city full of liberal expats like himself seeking progressive politics and an urban lifestyle at a red-state cost-of-living discount. “It was easy to just be in Never Neverland, floating with a bunch of other transplants having a good time,” said Stettin, who relocated from Dallas to Austin five years ago.
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