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In reply to okaydo • 9:48a, 6/15/26


Tesla in Texas:

Engineers and Corporate Staff: Recruiting and retaining engineering talent has been an ongoing hurdle.
Elon Musk has cited the "significant other problem," noting it is difficult to get engineers and their families to leave California for Texas.

Cost of Living: While homes and living expenses are generally more affordable than in Silicon Valley, rapid inflation and localized housing demand in Austin over the last few years have narrowed the gap.

Palo Alto, California: The Global Engineering & AI Headquarters.

CEO Elon Musk and California Governor Gavin Newsom formally announced this poetic return to Silicon Valley to tap into the state's deep pool of software and AI talent.
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9:52a, 6/15/26
Texas and California are not in competition. They are complementary.
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In reply to bearister • 5:07p, 6/15/26
bearister said:


Tesla in Texas:

Engineers and Corporate Staff: Recruiting and retaining engineering talent has been an ongoing hurdle.
Elon Musk has cited the "significant other problem," noting it is difficult to get engineers and their families to leave California for Texas.

Cost of Living: While homes and living expenses are generally more affordable than in Silicon Valley, rapid inflation and localized housing demand in Austin over the last few years have narrowed the gap.

Palo Alto, California: The Global Engineering & AI Headquarters.

CEO Elon Musk and California Governor Gavin Newsom formally announced this poetic return to Silicon Valley to tap into the state's deep pool of software and AI talent.


I used to work for a company that moved it's hq to Florida. It was an employee disaster. The Board ended up suing the CEO who did it.
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In reply to dajo9 • 5:52p, 6/15/26
My niece moved to Florida when her doctor husband got a gig at University of Florida (UF) in Gainesville. She said the whole place is the sh@it hole of the solar system with bugs the size of Buicks.

I will depart this life never placing my baby toe in that wasteland (or Vegas).
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In reply to Anarchistbear • 7:50a, 6/16/26
Anarchistbear said:
Texas and California are not in competition. They are complementary.

Yeah, the smart people are in higher demand than factory workers and thus are paid more.
Being paid more, and being smart, they can afford to live where they want to, which begins with the weather.

My TX cousin (who is admittedly paid a lot as a manager of a plastics injection fab, though they are all built in dumbass counties) was complaining last week about the neighbor who was mowing his lawn on his riding mower in their upscale neighborhood when the heatstroke caused him to faint and fall over dead.

Cousins have said for decades they'd love to relocate to California but they are always intimidated by the cost of living. Being poorly educated, because their mom eloped with a Texan long long ago, they can't choose where to live.


Anyways, you're right - the smart Californians need the dumb Texans to do the dirty work for cheap. And the dumb Texas need the smart people (and their capital) to hire them to build stuff envisioned in California.

There. That is insulting enough to start ww3. I'm somewhat kidding, somewhat not. I think living in these regions where the weather sucks is just suicide.

Go Bears!







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In reply to concordtom • 8:13a, 6/16/26
SAT scores is not really an apples to apples comparison.

In California, only about 1 in 4 students take the SAT, so test-takers are disproportionately college-bound students.

In Texas, roughly 3 in 4 students take the SAT due to widespread school-day testing programs, meaning the testing pool is much broader.

In most cases, the lower percentage of students taking the SAT leads to a higher average score. Arkansas has about 2% of students taking the SAT and their average is 1188. Are students in Arkansas therefore that much smarter than students in California? What about Kansas? 2% taking the SAT, average score 1256. What about Mississippi? 1% taking the SAT, average score of 1197.

https://www.ontocollege.com/average-sat-score/
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In reply to BearlySane88 • 8:21a, 6/16/26
Just go with it.
This is a Cal website.
It's to make readers chuckle and feel smug.
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8:27a, 6/16/26
Texas provides economic opportunities to African Americans , Hispanics and Asians who are migrating there in droves making it a minority majority state, 40% Hispanic, 12% African American ( highest in country)

California provides economic opportunities to more educated asians and whites.
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In reply to concordtom • 10:35a, 6/16/26
concordtom said:
Anarchistbear said:
Texas and California are not in competition. They are complementary.

Yeah, the smart people are in higher demand than factory workers and thus are paid more.
Being paid more, and being smart, they can afford to live where they want to, which begins with the weather.

My TX cousin (who is admittedly paid a lot as a manager of a plastics injection fab, though they are all built in dumbass counties) was complaining last week about the neighbor who was mowing his lawn on his riding mower in their upscale neighborhood when the heatstroke caused him to faint and fall over dead.

Cousins have said for decades they'd love to relocate to California but they are always intimidated by the cost of living. Being poorly educated, because their mom eloped with a Texan long long ago, they can't choose where to live.


Anyways, you're right - the smart Californians need the dumb Texans to do the dirty work for cheap. And the dumb Texas need the smart people (and their capital) to hire them to build stuff envisioned in California.

There. That is insulting enough to start ww3. I'm somewhat kidding, somewhat not. I think living in these regions where the weather sucks is just suicide.

Go Bears!




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