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MOVIE star Matthew McConaughey says: "Austin is a very progressive city that's on the front edge of where things are going.
"It has a great mix of the University of Texas – these kids with ideals and questions that buck the status quo – right next to the State Capitol.
"There's great push-pull there, a real dance between the youth and the establishment."
McConaughey, an alumnus of the university, which has named a graduate student lounge in his honour, lives in Austin part-time and can check off a list of what keeps him returning to the city of about 660,000.
"It's an outdoorsy town," he says in his easy Texas drawl.
"There are a lot of great rivers, a lot of great parks, a lot of great things to do outside.
"I like the weather, the food and the music." ...