Known as one of Forbes’ magazine’s Best Places for Business and Careers for the last several years, Austin offers wide appeal for the businesses and employees who relocate here. With many Austin-area companies ranked on both the Fortune 500 and on the Inc. 500 list of fastest-growing companies – including Dell Inc., IBM, AMD, and Whole Foods – there’s no doubt that the city is a great place to live and work.

In fact, Freescale Semiconductor, Whole Foods, Dell, and National Instruments are just a few of the major companies who have chosen Austin as their corporate home, while many other businesses have moved their research and development, manufacturing, and back-office facilities here.

Greater Austin is not just the geographic metropolitan center of Texas, it also occupies a central place in the state’s great economic health as a hotbed for the hi-tech industries and—as the state capital—government jobs from the local all the way to the federal levels. The Capital Area is often dubbed the “Silicon Hills,” and for good reason. Just some Fortune 500 companies that have operations in the region include 3M, Apple Inc., Hewlett-Packard, Google, AMD, Applied Materials, Cirrus Logic, Cisco Systems, eBay, PayPal, Bioware, Blizzard Entertainment, Hoover’s, Intel Corporation, National Instruments, Samsung Group, Silicon Laboratories, Oracle Corporation, Hostgator and United Devices.

Needless to say, there’s a veritable cornucopia of employment opportunities for those relocating here, with an astonishing array of great companies to choose from—all of which have chosen to establish operations in Greater Austin for its high quality of life, plentiful housing opportunities and relatively low cost of living. It accounts for much of all tech-related revenue in Texas – second only to its technology sister, the Dallas/Fort Worth Metro Area.

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