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I'm an experienced product designer with 25+ years of experience. I've been doing a job search across the US. I have three kids, two girls. I will never take them to a place like Texas. It is anathema to my core values as a person and as a parent. I'm shocked that a place like Texas became a draw for tech companies at all.
Lack of diversity is stated but never mentioned again. Diversity of what is left to the readers interpretation. This reads like a hit piece rather than a genuine exploration of a real issue.
They wouln't say it if it wasn't false;)
What can you say, compared to most other places in the USA?
Looks like Houston is still the most diverse city in the US by many criteria:
https://www.governing.com/community/houston-is-the-nations-m...
The weather's usually hotter and far more humid than Austin, but still comfortable most of the year without air-conditioning for well-acclimated residents.
Others need not apply.
I'm an experienced product designer with 25+ years of experience. I've been doing a job search across the US. I have three kids, two girls. I will never take them to a place like Texas. It is anathema to my core values as a person and as a parent. I'm shocked that a place like Texas became a draw for tech companies at all.
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>It is anathema to my core values as a person and as a parent. What does it mean? (Im not from US)
They likely believe that the more conservative political atmosphere in Texas is an unsuitable place to raise children, especially young girls.
How things can differ so hard that you decide that place is unsuitable to raise children?
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Why? I'm not American at all, but have a friend who moved there for a job (with wife, and a daughter), and he seems to be doing fine with everything except climate
Until his daughter marries and has children. If something goes wrong, they'll let her daughter die before they give medical aid. If she goes somewhere else to get medical aid, they'll jail her on her return. That's the concern.
I have two daughters child-bearing age, and I live in Wisconsin. Same issue. Thankfully one has moved to Oregon. The other is still here. She is on birth control, but is taking a risk as there is a family history of difficult pregnancies.
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They likely believe that the more conservative political atmosphere in Texas is an unsuitable place to raise children, especially young girls.
I don't understand How things can differ so hard that you decide that place is unsuitable to raise children?
The rights and restrictions you see in one state can differ wildly from the next. This allows for drastically different cultures to pop up.
There is still a lot of shared US culture despite this.
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Why? I'm not American at all, but have a friend who moved there for a job (with wife, and a daughter), and he seems to be doing fine with everything except climate
Until his daughter marries and has children. If something goes wrong, they'll let her daughter die before they give medical aid. If she goes somewhere else to get medical aid, they'll jail her on her return. That's the concern.
https://www.texastribune.org/2022/06/24/texas-abortion-law-a...
But in any case, this looks like a very activist thing. In general economy always beats this kind of argument. Objectively, there are no cases where workforce migration happened to an abortion-approving areas with less opportunities.
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They likely believe that the more conservative political atmosphere in Texas is an unsuitable place to raise children, especially young girls.
Isn't Austin a very left-leaning city? Though, to be fair, the people I know in Austin are deeply conservative Texas natives who hate the new atmosphere... Edit: I'm missing the point, they said Texas, not Austin.
I'm an experienced product designer with 25+ years of experience. I've been doing a job search across the US. I have three kids, two girls. I will never take them to a place like Texas. It is anathema to my core values as a person and as a parent. I'm shocked that a place like Texas became a draw for tech companies at all.
And there must be people who feel exactly the opposite. As long as there are options then we can all be happy. I guess.
Oppressing others is really not about options. It's one thing to live your life according to your own beliefs and principles, but it's an entirely different thing to feel entitled to selectively impose them onto everyone around you.
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And there must be people who feel exactly the opposite. As long as there are options then we can all be happy. I guess.
> As long as there are options then we can all be happy. I guess. Oppressing others is really not about options. It's one thing to live your life according to your own beliefs and principles, but it's an entirely different thing to feel entitled to selectively impose them onto everyone around you.