Not sure. I wouldn’t draw a comparison between Austin’s infrastructure and the bay area’s.

Compared to states with comparable infrastructure but less tax.

And one of those would be....?

California has the highest income tax rate of any state. So... any state with comparable or worse infrastructure. And there's quite a few of them [1] [2] [3]

[1] https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/rankings/infrastruct...

[2] https://infrastructurereportcard.org/state-item/california/

[3] https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2019/07/08/states-that-...

OK, awesome. I encourage anyone complaining about CA taxes to go enjoy that super infra in North Dakota (#4).

There were literally rolling blackouts in CA last summer and the state came dangerously close again this summer.

Edit: Not sure why everyone is assuming I'm saying Texas is somehow better. I'm well aware of the power grid problems there as well. The question was "in comparison to what" and setting aside CA and TX, at last count there are 48 whole other states in the nation.

Texas also has rolling blackouts (and less grid resiliency) and have people already forgotten the catastrophe last winter?

I don't think electricity grid is the example to use to highlight Texas' superiority over California

Texas lost its energy during freezing winter, let’s not forget, and came very close to it being the case for months.

The Netherlands

Certainly not Texas

Mmm, Northeast?