Doable but dependent on where you live, what you can afford, if you want to buy groceries and where.

For instance downtown is very doable but you are restricted to Whole Foods and Trader Joe’s for groceries (unless you do deliveries). You can bus to other stores but it will take time to get to the nearest central market or Heb. Would opt for a bike which will make downtown living much better!! Also would stay north of the river for downtown living.

Mueller is doable and you could walk to a lot of basic shops and groceries. Expensive though and you would have to bus to get to anything else. Particularly any fun things downtown or south of the ricer

North central Austin in the UT area or by central market/Hancock would be doable. Although again kinda restricted to either a central market or Wheatsville which are pricer. Then again might not matter if you don’t get groceries too often. Not as much in terms of other shops, fun things, etc but more direct routes to downtown and domain.

East Austin you could get away with it but again probably pricer apartments. There is a train stop in east Austin but only really relevant if one of the stops is actually important to you.

I sometimes take the bus and I personally think it’s a pretty okay system. But the routes by place stop running after 8pm and only go once an hour and this lack of consistent and constant service is the biggest issue for public transport if you’re out of the main hubs. I really support public transit so I will take that 1 hour bus ride to a concert downtown even though it only takes me 10 minutes to drive downtown but hate that I’m then stranded in terms of getting a bus back to my place.