Summer Time And The Living Is Easy In Austin

F.T. Kola explains why her adopted city is the star attraction of the Lone Star State.

By the year I turned 30, I’d spent over a decade living in London and then New York. My childhood had been spent in Australia, in a landscape sleepy and drenched with sunlight, and these grand, grey metropolises— London, heavy and resplendent with the weight of history; New York, her flashier, scrappier cousin—felt like fitting stages for my formative adult years. There played out university, friendships that would define my life and eventually, a career in law. But somewhere along the way, I began to suspect that I had lost track of myself. Amid the thrill and noise of these great cities, I’d created a life in which I had lost something essential to myself. And then I came to Austin.