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Maybe they will have better luck in Santa Clara.
I don’t buy any of the flamebait reasons for leaving SF. Reason 1 is money and reason 2 is talent pool.
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The question is, how many of these "candidates" still love him while/after working at one of his companies?
Elon has an estimated 110,000+ employees across all his companies. Maybe you can find one and ask?
Doing this on a few weeks notice seems rather insane to me. Unless you have very good remote work options this is very disruptive for employees.
Shifting offices is also a way to get rid of staff without having to fire or lay them off.
It’s been a while since we had sf offices, but back when we did sf had a pretty aggressive additional payroll tax and gross receipts taxes. I’d imagine this is likely a factor in the decision. I know for a while they were waiving some of these taxes for companies who set up offices in certain parts of the city. E.g. zendesk got a big tax break for its market street location near the tenderloin. As for commutes, I’d b…
Didn't Elon also give a politically motivated reason for moving his HQs out of California? [1] [1] https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...
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It's clearly driven by politics and media. I've never been a fan of Musk fwiw so I remember when the default attitude was to worship him. Why do so few people remember that? It was just as glaring as the hate now.
Good riddance. That part of San Francisco has been worse than the risky areas of most third world cities for the last 3-4 years. I don't understand how this beautiful city was let to deteriorate so fast.
>I don't understand how this beautiful city was let to deteriorate so fast. Didn't people vote for this?
As a UK chap, can someone give me their opinion on if San Jose is a more pleasant place to live than San Fran these days?
Good riddance. That part of San Francisco has been worse than the risky areas of most third world cities for the last 3-4 years. I don't understand how this beautiful city was let to deteriorate so fast.
You can just say that you never leave well-to-do regions of the US in less words.