Wall Street Journalさんのインスタグラム写真 - (Wall Street JournalInstagram)「A few years ago, some blocks of South Congress Avenue in Austin, Texas, featured a wax museum and comic book shop, a neighborhood bar with $1 taco deals, and an auto shop.⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ Then, as at so many other places in the city, the construction cranes came. Those blocks recently reopened with a strip of modern urban buildings with shops offering national brands from Lululemon to Le Labo perfumes. The $2,000+ private membership club Soho House and an Hermès store are on the way. ⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ The Texas capital has tried hard to hang on to its particular culture over years of booming growth and popularity, which have attracted money and energy to the city but also brought rising rents and traffic congestion.⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ But the pace of change is accelerating as companies and remote workers relocate to what they see as the next tech metropolis, in some cases fleeing California. “Austin is a startup city,” said J.D. Ross, a general partner at venture-capital firm Atomic, who moved to Austin a little over a month ago from the San Francisco Bay Area. “Everything is growing quickly. The airport is adding new gates every year.”⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ Austin is now one of the fastest-growing cities in the U.S., with a population of about a million, versus 675,000 in 2000.⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ Read more at the link in our bio.⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ 📷: @brontewittpen for @wsjphotos⁠⠀」1月5日 0時20分