Austin, Texas: What Retirees Actually Think After Moving Here

Tue, 21 Apr 2026 06:00:00 -0500

I was standing on the Congress Avenue Bridge at dusk on a Thursday in March, watching a million and a half Mexican free-tailed bats spiral out from under the bridge deck and scatter across the sky above Lady Bird Lake. A woman next to me, mid-seventies, white-haired, wearing a fleece vest and sensible walking shoes, leaned over and said, “I moved here from Minneapolis two years ago. I’ve seen this forty times. It hasn’t gotten old yet.”

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Austin, Texas: What Retirees Actually Think After Moving Here