re: Oracle moving HQ to Texas

What’s the point of leaving a blue state only to be a part of a blue state?

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I don’t think the big corporations really care about the reputation or ‘vibe’ of the city in and of itself.

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I agree about the “vibe”...the whole “Keep Austin Weird” thing died out years ago.

That said, you can't claim this:

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I think the reasoning for these huge corporations is generally, great business environment + attractive location for its employees

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...and say they don’t care about the city.

Old austin didn’t die rummy it just moved south

Just don’t tell any of those Williamson county losers

After Covid, I think a lot of firms are looking to relocate to low cost of living areas with a good business environment.

I speculated that if Louisiana and Mississippi can at least tread water and avoid raising taxes, it would attract some of that as other states like California, Illinois, New Jersey, and New York decline.

Now it looks like Texas, Tennessee, and Florida are going to basically get all of it.

Hopefully they leave their workforce in California.

Oracle, HPE, CBRE, and Charles Schwab all moved to Texas this year (Dallas, Houston, and Austin in particular). There are rumblings about Tesla and SpaceX as well.

It’s an impressive showing.

Texas gets things done.

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This board is afraid of liberals even though their government leaders are all huge liberals.

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I've lived in Austin since the late 90s. It was awesome when I moved here (cold beer, and you could have open beer in the car) and was pretty good through the 2000s.

The last 3-5 years downtown has gone to crap quickly. I've had a few knives drawn on me, had to intervene between homeless folks yelling insults/catcalling at ladies and base downtown is nowhere near as safe or fun as it used to be (even pre-covid).

tldr Adler is horrible.

Insane how many people in texas complain about how expensive it was in cali. I always hear about it. But then they are voting the same crooks

Maybe Louisiana can attract tinder to move here

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Y’all are all assuming that their workforce in Texas will 1. Be entirely made up of California transplants 2. That all of those transplants will be Democrats and 3. All of them will continued to vote Democrat entirely.

Doesn’t pass the smell test. You have to believe that they added in some qualifiers in to insure that some native Texans were hired as well as part of any tax incentives they offered.

When Volvo came to SC, the county they built in threw a whole bunch of incentives at them with the caveat that 1. When you open up the initial hiring for the first workers in the plant, you have to have an exclusive period where only residents of that county who had lived there for a minimum amount of time could apply and 2. You had to have a minimum number of employees at your opening that were residents of that same county for a minimum amount of time. If those terms weren’t met, those incentives would not be honored.