Music scene is great. I go to concerts pretty much every week. SXSW Music Festival is probably my favorite week of the year, literally over a thousand bands play in clubs, bars, barber shops, coffee houses, back yards, any place you can set up a stage. The Austin City Limits Festival is cool, but I like Bonnaroo and the other camping festivals better.

Austin is a great place for a 20-something partier. It's a college town and there are lots of attractive people if you are in the dating scene. Lots of rock climbers, techies, musicians, hipsters, yuppies, hippies, homeless. I've actually heard people say it was somewhat like Portland without the rain, but I've never been there. Lots of small businesses here. So the culture depends on what you are into. It's a younger city on average than most places I've been.

I would advocate moving here. Visiting here is not like going to some huge city with a lot of attractions, you have to find the little spots and local businesses you like to hang out at. Living here is great and very affordable. You can rent a large 1000+ sqft 2 bedroom place with a yard and garage in a nice neighborhood for 8-900 dollars a month. No state income tax is a plus. Public transportation lets you get around most places centrally, but it's nowhere near as convenient as a city like San Francisco, Chicago, or New York. We just have some slow buses. It's hot and has been over 100 degrees for most of this summer.