'Where ambition goes to die': These tech workers flocked to Austin during the pandemic. Now they're desperate to get out.

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'Where ambition goes to die': These tech workers flocked to Austin during the pandemic. Now they're desperate to get out.
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'Where ambition goes to die': These tech workers flocked to Austin during the pandemic. Now they're desperate to get out.::Drawn by the promise of an emerging tech hub, some tech workers who flocked to Austin found a middling tech scene, subpar culture, and scorching heat.

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Also, the last mile issue is very real and needs to be solved.

Bicycle

Folding bikes, sure. Or you get a bikeshare sub. Regular bikes aren't allowed on trains because they're too crowded.

- Dense city dweller

Philadelphia allows bikes on their subway, or at least doesn't enforce not allowing them. But, they probably wouldn't if bikes were more normalized here.