Posted on 01/11/2022 2:29:11 PM PST by DFG
First Elon Musk, now Mark Zuckerberg.
Zuckerberg’s company, Meta (formerly Facebook), announced it would lease offices in a massive new building in Austin, Texas. Big tech companies, who cut their teeth and built empires in California, are fleeing the state and relocating to Texas. It's almost as if high taxes, stifling corporate regulations, and out-of-control housing costs are unattractive to businesses and long-term sustainability. Who knew?
The Austin Business Journal was among the first to report on Meta’s move.
“Months of speculation have come to an end as California-based Meta Platforms Inc. — the parent company of Facebook — recently leased the entire commercial half of Sixth and Guadalupe, the 66-story high-rise under construction downtown that will be Austin’s tallest building when finished. The social media company has also pledged hundreds more jobs in the Texas capital,” the Austin Business Journal reported.
“The lease is the largest ever in Downtown Austin,” Austin ABC-affiliate KVUE reported. It will be located in what will eventually become Austin’s tallest building.
The California-to-Texas “techs-odus” is becoming a trend. Other tech companies such as Oracle, HP Inc., and 8VC have recently relocated to Texas. As of November 2020, 35 major companies had relocated or opened new sites in Austin, according to the Austin Chamber of Commerce.
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20 years from now Texas will be the new California.
Zuckerberg can stay the zuck away
Be careful what you wish for
Keeping Zuck out of Texas is that important, if not more so.
But it should be done in a nice way.
Texas will fall to these leftists, just as California did - with New York, Texas and California, they will rule the US and they will rule with an iron fist.
Zuk ought keep headin’ South and help the Mexicanos get a grip on their social media.
There goes the neighborhood.
Pelosi bought in FL, now ZuckaBuck to TX. Planned Incursions.
"They're like locusts. They travel from state to state, their whole civilization. After they've consumed every natural resource they move on. And we're next."
Can’t we have Musk launch him to Mars?
Dear Texas, Unless they are flying a Trump flag turn them around and send them back.
Well it just became much more expensive….. and crowded. Austin still refuses to build roads, enjoy the suck Austin!
Austin used to pretty happenin’ in the 80s... maybe NPR messed it up.
I had a friend around Richmond Virginia whose wife cut the cord and with daughter “get her away from bad influences” divorced and moved to Austin... I mean come on... a decade goes by the ex has fled Austin and is down in Sarasota... maybe it’s a governor thang with her, or access to good cosmetic surgeons.
That’s the plan.
Have to turn TX blue by 2024.
And it is very close.
Hey Mark, welcome to Texas. Your private pilot, your stewardess, the luggage guy, the fuel guy, your limo driver, the pizza prep guy at Casey's, the guy who refills your water glass at The Carillon, the guy who flipped your $31 dollar Wagyu burger at Jeffreys, your wild game butcher at the Meat Market, your import service guy, your pool cleaner, your landscaper, your Amazon delivery dude, your laundry guy, your landscaper, and 5 of your newest Texas key staffers ALL VOTED FOR TRUMP. AND THEY CAN'T WAIT TO VOTE FOR TRUMP AGAIN IN 2024.
Schadenfreude, you p^ssy!
Move to Kaui
Texas shouldn’t let him in
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