8) Austin, Texas
Austin, Texas is a weird city, and they’d like to keep it that way. You may find that lifelong residents have never truly driven on gridded neighborhoods streets and that highways exit into U-turns that turn back into highways, but the eclectic food and music culture of the city continues to attract millennials and adventurers with no real end in sight. Austin is a city inspired by live performance, which also means that the modern hipster demographic is alive and well. One thing that hipsters love to do is save money. Finding a comfortable and good quality in the nation’s live music capital is rather easy, especially if you’re willing to stay just a few miles outside of the city center with ample access to Interstate 35. On average, a Motel 6 near Midtown will cost approximately $51, even on a Saturday. As long as visitors aren’t trying to snag a last minute stay during the annual SXSW festival; finding a hotel for under $100 is not hard to do.
