Oracle Moving HQ to Austin

Re:Oracle Moving HQ to Austin by KoftaBob on Friday December 11, 2020 @04:57PM (#25391747)

If the typical person leaving California for Texas is doing so explicitly for the lower cost of living and lower tax burden, why would they vote for policies that go against that goal?

You could argue that it's the longtime locals in the Bay Area, those who bought homes cheaply in the 60s/70s, that are usually the NIMBYs voting for the policies that caused the current state of things.

Those same people are the least likely to be the ones leaving for Texas.

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Re:Oracle Moving HQ to Austin by AnimalMuppet on Friday December 11, 2020 @05:54PM (#25392677)

I think people moving may like the politics of where they're moving to, in the abstract. But they get there, and they decide they'd like something between where they are and where they came from - say, 25% California and 75% Texas. But that's still trying to move Texas, not all the way to California, but in that direction. To those already in Texas, that raises hackles.

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Re:Oracle Moving HQ to Austin by pixl97 on Friday December 11, 2020 @11:24PM (#25395515)

Anecdotally I've heard just that come out of peoples mouths...

"It's cheap here in Texas but why don't you have ___thing that costs millions in tax dollars___"

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