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For better or worse California is a forward thinking place but also an exclusive one. It's also very expensive to live there. The price to live in Austin has gotten crazy high and now there is a much larger homeless population. Austin's solution to this now mimics San Francisco which is to pretend it's not happening.
Also California loves regulations for some but not others. For every smart regulation they have some "futuristic" new thing that annoys people. Silicon Valley is basically exempt from regulation at all.
For a recent example the Waymo driverless taxis that break down in the road and cause traffic jams. They are only in 4 cities; LA and San Francisco of course, but now because of the influx of tech workers they are in Austin and Phoenix. Used to be that only San Francisco would be a guinea pig for tech and social experiments but now it's spreading to where they moved to.