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>It will fail on the long term, as more and more companies question the wisdom of setting up shops in the Valley and California in general, and move to locations with much lower tax and restrictions, such as Austin TX.

But that will only last a decade or two before they turn Austin (or wherever) into SF 2.0 and all the business goes elsewhere.



> But that will only last a decade or two before they turn Austin (or wherever) into SF 2.0 and all the business goes elsewhere.

I don't think local government in Texas is as amenable to well-meaning but ultimately intrusive and disruptive policies like in Northern California.


Texas government don't pass intrusive policies ? They literally passed a law that forces women to bury aborted fetus. I mean that is 100x more intrusive than cafeterias

https://www.newsweek.com/abortion-texas-fetus-law-2017-57686...


By the time Austin is SF2.0 local government in Austin will be made up of all the same clowns that make up local government in SF. CA was like Texas once upon a time.


You think? In my opinion, it's the manifestation of the hippy culture of the 60s and 70s.

California was never a hands-off state, never had the hands-off tradition that Texas had.

I don't see any reason to expect that the same stuff would happen in TX.


Austin was the hippy central of Texas until the tech boom.


Different kind of hippies, I believe.


Are you serious? California used to be an insane gun ridden free for all cowboy state. You could legally kidnap/shanghai someone up until 1915.




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