Welcome back to miles away. Today we're actually staying at home in the great US of A headed down to Austin Texas which is it's kind of a sudden almost overnight hot spot

definitely for fun weekend getaways bachelor parties

bachelor's parties and we have an Austin local with us in the studio

tPG senior travel features reporter kathan fan welcome back to miles away

Catherine thanks that's great to be here again It's great to be recording with you directly

because you were with Brian Biroz

and talking about solo female travel.

Absolutely.

We have never actually talked face-to-face like this before.

We haven't, but it's a lot of fun.

Well welcome back to the podcast. Thank you. So how long have you been living in Austin? So I have

been in Austin since 2004. I moved there for school and I stuck around so that also tells you how old I am.

How has it changed over the years?

Oh man it has changed so much in a lot of different ways.

Austin's gone from being a small town to small city I would say overall and there's been a

ton of tech influence so a lot of people graduated from college before

2010 I would say you typically would have to move away to find a lot of the best job

opportunities but over the last decade a lot of tech companies have started offices in

Austin there's a really strong entrepreneurial spirit there as well and there's just been a

boom of great careers for young professionals in Austin.

So now you've got a lot of people moving in for new opportunities, you've got a lot of people who are

early retiring after having made some Uber or Lyft money early on and you've just got a

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