Texas Attracted California Techies. Now It’s Losing Thousands of Them.

some of the Californians who moved here during the pandemic realized they had traded Edenic weather for 110-degree summers and no income tax, and they decided that the income tax wasn’t that bad

People discovering what the state provide isn't free.

Can't blame them, Texas is an ugly, shithole state and most of the politicians are worse.

Texas is a high tax, low service state.

California is a high tax, high service state.

Texas spends their taxes on corporate welfare.

California spends their taxes on education, infrastructure and health care.

This was always going to happen

For the first two decades of the century, what it meant to be Texan—as explained by the state’s politicians—was largely wrapped up in a feeling of competition with California.

As a Californian, I can’t help but think of that Mad Men meme: “I don’t think about you at all” or some such. Do all Texans really think this way or does this author just have a huge California-shaped chip on his shoulder?

"Thanks for the tax breaks, but now we are off to the next tax breaks"

Because nothing is worth enduring Texas.

To the surprise of very few with functional brains.

Good. Fuck Texas.

Bait n switch thrills nobody

Texas never attracted techies, it attracted a few Republican tech CEOs with disproportionate shares of power. I've always turned down recruiters trying to get me to move there regardless of how good the job is on paper. If I've got options, I'm choosing to live on one of the coasts. There's nothing for me in Texas. I mean I've been to Bucees once, it's worth visiting. But I'm gonna guess the novelty is probably over by the second visit.

austin is super expensive now, and tech companies have left. it’s hot, humid, and you or your wife might die if her a pregnancy is non viable. or if the power grid goes out. i have family who moved there but i sure wouldn’t.

Is it normal to close an article when given two options: consent to sharing your data with 99999 companies or "choose options" and manually disable 999 subsets of said companies?
I did that once just bein curious of when the list ends, but I'm not repeating that

They still have huge ports and oil refineries going for them. Until the Permian Basin is drained.

LOSING them? Texas is already executing us fags and all the women who aren’t idiots, & I didn’t read about it?

I thought that wasn’t until next year

Itd be hard to believe people are actually attracted to this shithole state without there being some wierd political motive behind it