I've been waiting for that to happen in California for 20 years, and though a few people are waking up, they're probably another 20 years away from any kind of meaningful political change even being a serious possibility. Sometimes a state or city just goes full retard both politically and culturally, and they stand by their mistakes even when they've very obviously chosen wrong. When that happens, they just start blaming everybody else.
Look at the City of Detroit. They've lost about 1.2 million residents since the early '50s, and all they've done is double down on stupidity. How many people have been killed in the last 50 years because of weak criminal policy? How much money has the city and its school district lost by watching it's population shrink to about a third of its previous size? And yet nobody questions why it's happening or what could fix it. They just blame others.
I can't imagine Austin turning into Detroit. Its economy is diverse enough that the idea of total collapse is unlikely. However, I can see it turning into San Francisco - a place gradually losing population because of excess costs and hostility to family life.
