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Ruby's
You're right about Ruby's sucking, but your attitude is exactly why I moved from Austin 10 years ago after living there five years. It grew exasperating to see such a mediocre, if manifestly pleasant, town taken so seriously by its denizens.
"Austin cred" is cheaply enough come by, my friend. It ain't exactly Berlin or San Francisco. However much it wants to be in the same class, it never will. Meanwhile, all new development is identical to Dallas, and hipsters, such a hot commodity in 1993, are more common than cockroaches in almost any American city. Austin is and ever will be dependent on kids from Temple or McAllen who come to UT and are dazzled by their "big-city" experience.
Nice swimming holes nearby, though, that's for sure.