A Few Words

Austin capital of Texas in US is known to be 11th highly populated city in whole of the US and 4th in Texas. It is considered to be one of the fastest growing cities in US and second largest capital in US. The city has major attraction of lakes, waterways and rivers. It is economic and cultural centre of Round Rock area. The residents of the city are commonly known to be Austinities. The city people involved in diverse profession including Government Employee, Musicians, Blue Collar employees, high-tech employee. Due to number of musicians, music halls and venue in the city and TV musical Series CITY LIMITS the city is considered to be Music Capital.Austinities have taken a slogan as a desire to ensure protection of small, local and unique business from being dominated by large companies and corporation in the nation. Due to colourful lights after sunset around the hills the city was once known to be “City Of Violet Crown”.

Austin is considered to have humid climate that means it has got long and hot summer and traditional and warm season, with mild and short winters. The city amounts to have a GDP of $ 86 as recorded in year 2010. Numerous amount of employees from computer science and engineering programs from Texas’s University acts to be source to employment in the nation that helps the steady growth of defence and technology industry. The city is recognised to have 85 biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies. Except all this Austin is estimated to have a network of unique, independent organisation and firms owned locally.

The city is famous for its annual event commonly named as Henry Pun-off organised by museum known as Henry house. Other famous events are Spamarama, Eeyore’s Birthday Party, Austin Reggae Festival, Gay pride, Craft Brewers Festival, Art City, East Austin studio tour and so on. The city is famous for its music and music is commonly a part of nightclubs and annual interactive festival.

The city is also famous for its museums that include Memorial Museum, Contemporary Austin, Blanton Museum and the galleries situated at Harry Ransome. The art products produced locally are displayed in South Austin Museum. The city has also got many landmarks and statues. One of the major attractions is Free-tailed bats. Beginning from the march these bats around 1.5 million of them enjoy their residence in the expansion of bridges and horizon grooves, as the environment is best suited for them for raising their babies.

The city is governed by 11 members of city council and this council is managed by city manager. The laws for governance are given by Police Department, which did not apply for government buildings as they were under Department of Public Safety. The city has got liberal politics as compared to other conservative state. The city is blend of suburban conservatism and downtown liberalism.

Overall the city is mixture of tradition, art, music, education and politics. Great place to explore new things and ideas with open minded and artistic people all around.