The renaissance of Lake Austin should give heart to other resort spas in need of TLC.
Lake Austin was the spa world's Buffalo Bills: the perennial contender that never quite made it to the top.
Lake Austin has become a premier lifestyle resort, the kind of place that offers both a head-spinning variety of services and activities but also doesn't act like a spa.
Just northwest of the downtown core, the affluent Tarrytown neighbourhood attracts government workers and families, drawn to the historic housing stock and parkland on the shores of Lake Austin.
Situated in a lush--for Texas, anyway--valley, with 19 acres of waterfront and a warm year-round climate, the resort sat on the former site of the Sunshine Nudist Camp (in the '70s), the Steiner Ranch Rodeo Camp (later in the '70s) and the Bermuda Inn Reducing Resort (up until the creation of Lake Austin).
Half of the cities on the top-10 list are state capitals, including Hartford, Boston, Oklahoma City, Salt Lake City and Austin.
Malzahn left Tulsa and his position opened for Morris, coming off undefeated seasons in 2008 and 2009 at Lake Travis High School in Austin, Texas.
Raleigh, Austin, Denver and Salt Lake City have all become high-tech hubs.
All the ducks are finally in a row, however, and residents of both Austin as well as Salt Lake City can tap to pay (or score discounts) at the "hundreds" of locations that accept NFC-based purchases through American Express, Capital One, Chase and Isis' own cash card.
Their funds remained mostly intact, but cities including New Orleans, Austin, Texas, and Salt Lake City lost almost all such money.
Also this month, a joint venture of wireless telecom carriers delayed its first big test of a mobile-payments service in Austin, Texas, and Salt Lake City.
But for the most part they will follow the path of established tech firms such as Apple, Intel, Adobe, eBay and IBM to lower-cost places like Austin, Columbus and Salt Lake City.
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At the head of the pack is Austin, where Apple recently announced a large expansion, and Salt Lake City, No. 2 on our big cities list, which is a major destination for expansion for Silicon Valley firms such as Adobe, Twitter and Electronic Arts.
It's hard to beat sunset cocktails at Austin's Oasis, where tiered decks jut from a 450-foot-high cliff over Lake Travis.
On a weekend afternoon in Austin, the middleaged locals were hitching pleasure craft up to their SUVs and heading out to the lake.
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