Posted on 01/18/2021 5:29:43 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
SAN FRANCISCO - The Bay Area struck a hard bargain with its tech workers.
Rent was astronomical. Taxes were high. Your neighbors didn’t like you. If you lived in San Francisco, you might have commuted an hour south to your job at Apple or Google or Facebook. Or if your office was in the city, maybe it was in a neighborhood with too much street crime, open drug use and $5 coffees.
But it was worth it. Living in the epicenter of a boom that was changing the world was what mattered. The city gave its workers a choice of interesting jobs and a chance at the brass ring.
That is, until the pandemic. Remote work offered a chance at residing for a few months in towns where life felt easier.
They fled. They fled to tropical beach towns. They fled to more affordable places like Georgia. They fled to states without income taxes like Texas and Florida.
Sahin Boydas, the founder of a remote-work startup who had lived in San Francisco and its suburbs over the last decade, saw all of that. He looked at his wife and two young children, working and learning from home while crammed into a Cupertino rental that had seen better days. Much of the late summer, the air was full of smoke from wildfires. For days, electricity would go in and out at his house.
“You start to feel stupid,” said Boydas, who is 37. “I can understand the 1% rich people, the very top investors and entrepreneurs, they can be happy there.”
So he and his family moved to Austin. For the same price as their three-bedroom apartment in Cupertino, they have a five-bedroom home on an acre of land.
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I’m afraid the net result is just a lot of very Liberal people flooding into Red states. Not good.
at this point, does it matter?
Fine. As long as they remember why they left when they vote in their new location.
The leftists who are destroying our country are not liberal. Liberals are for free speech. We need to use the term “leftist” for the people suppressing free-speech.
They just begin to realize that ARE stupid. And they bring their stupid with them to their new, formerly red homes.
Joy.
Such horrible creatures are these Satanic leftists.
He could have saved a lot of time and heartache, and just asked one of us.
They won’t. I just look at my Wake county.
A dispersion of dumb condescending leftist voters is not bad if they are surrounded by people who speak to them in American and they are out of their bubble.
Some may turn and realize the lies. Not all but some.
Look at the bright side. Sadly, Election Theft 2020 is full bore.
There can never be another honest election as long as those who stole this election are alive.
Exactly - any conversation I have with conservative young people is filled with ideas of ‘America has changed and you’re clinging to the past’.
They won’t. One bad apple spoils the barrel. A lot of bad apples speeds the rot.
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Joy.
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Not only that, he pays no state income taxes in Texas, so his take home pay is considerably higher. Not to mention the streets are not full of sh*t like in San Francisco.
That would require at least a modicum of self-awareness and humility. Leftists possess neither. Thus, the guy in the article doesn’t just move his family, battered by the consequences of leftist policies, to Texas. Oh no, he moves them to the Peoples’ Republic of Austin, where they’re guaranteed to suffer yet again in multiple ways, while continuing to vote for more leftism.
This guy has learned nothing. He didn’t really want to escape leftism. he just wanted a cheaper place to live.
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