I'm super curious how this will WFH Covid-era will play out for the Bay Area. I think the question I haven't figured out is job mobility. Pre-covid, even if you lost your job here as an engineer, finding another company thats interesting with the right pay isn't too hard which is one of the best appeals of SV. I wonder how this will play out in terms of this dynamic.
Oracle Moving HQ to Austin
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#12I think this is a major news for Silicon Valley. Schwab, HPE, now Oracle. I hope that this would give somebody in California Legislature a pause.
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#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
I’ve been also hearing a lot about Miami.
NY -> Miami California -> Austin I think you could probably chalk a lot of this up to where company leadership has their vacation homes.
You are being downvoted for a seemingly flippant remark, but someone should really check whether senior execs conveniently are already well positioned to move there.
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#15Is _this_ the point where everyone and their grandpa has finally figured out that Austin is cool, and therefore it is automatically not cool anymore? What's the next hip town?
Austin has been dead since 1990. I leave it to you to remember why.
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#17How long before all the Californians make Austin the exact same place they fled from?
"They ideas are good, they just happen to be implemented wrong every time. But this time is different"
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#18Shouldn't the republican party be worried? If the trend continues and a lot of companies move from California to Texas bringing along a lot of liberal employees with them, won't that tip the already narrowing margin towards the democratic party?
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#19Is _this_ the point where everyone and their grandpa has finally figured out that Austin is cool, and therefore it is automatically not cool anymore? What's the next hip town?
Hip is where you make it. Sometimes the best communities form in places where you wouldn't expect it. Freaks, hippies, and weirdos seem to stick together better in conservative places where they have a common enemy.
It's always dynamic. Being near some success is good for artists and creators because they can tap into the revenue stream without being priced out. Too few customers and the density of innovation can't exist. Too much success and only the most successful and profitable ventures can survive.
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#20How long before all the Californians make Austin the exact same place they fled from?
Joe Rogan was talking just about this[1], how he doesn't want to disrupt the culture and environment and hopes all the people fleeing California don't try to impose the same values and politics that caused them to flee California in the first place.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iajyvVaeFS4&ab_channel=JRECl...