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Anticipating all the Texas hate comments, just gonna plant a flag and say I love living in Austin. This city rules.
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Yep. It's a great city though I wouldn't live there due to the summers. Honestly, the reflexive hate both Texas and California get on HN is ridiculous and a great way to filter out accounts to ignore. There are valid criticisms to make for both, but if someone only criticizes and cannot point out or conceed positive attributes as well, it's best to just treat that account as a lost cause.
I have a mirror feeling about Chicago: very good city, but I wouldn’t want to live there due to the winters. Geographic negative polarization has become far too entrenched in online discourse.
Honestly, I wish the HN/YC moderation team could be explicit in showing how it has taken down certain bot rings as a trust building exercise, because there absolutely are nation state bot rings on HN as well.
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I know, right? Prosperity, civil rights, an enormous economy leading the country and the nation, and fiscal policies that make rich assholes ostentatiously relocate. Just terrible!
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I know, right? Prosperity, civil rights, an enormous economy leading the country and the nation, and fiscal policies that make rich assholes ostentatiously relocate. Just terrible!
Highest COL in the country, a lot of it due to regulations, zoning and prop 13 which prevent density and building. Paris has the same area as SF but 3X the population.
Some folks dislike the fact that it's a desert. It wiggles quite a bit and has been known to burn. Few blizzards, though. Little frostbite.
As a gay dude I will never take a job in Texas. Companies may enjoy the lax regulatory environment and favorable tax laws, but there are many bright people who - for one of a NUMBER of reasons - will never move there. It is repressive and frightening. Who knows if that will be enough to move the needle on any of this, but companies aren't just buildings and incorporation paperwork, they're also the people.
Same thoughts as the father of a young girl. I don’t want her to have less rights.
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You have to understand that to a conservative, living in CA feels like dying. It's a feeling of constant intense psychic pain.
Tell them to move to Orange County. Unless there's been total demographic changes since the 1990's, they'll feel fine.
As a gay dude I will never take a job in Texas. Companies may enjoy the lax regulatory environment and favorable tax laws, but there are many bright people who - for one of a NUMBER of reasons - will never move there. It is repressive and frightening. Who knows if that will be enough to move the needle on any of this, but companies aren't just buildings and incorporation paperwork, they're also the people.
People who "refuse to move" to Texas honestly have no idea what they're talking about. Yes, you probably wouldn't like it, but it's certainly not what you think it is. I grew up in Texas (mostly Austin), and later in life moved to California, and genuinely can't stand the navel-gazey "I've never been there but I know I'd hate it" type of attitude that prevails here. Texas is a gerrymandered purple state, not a red st…
There are a number of laws in Texas that make it a non-option for many of us.