Elon Musk confirms: ‘Yes, I have moved to Texas’

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  1. LoneStarGal

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    That coffee I made was not originally intended to be spewed on the keyboard, but thanks for the laugh. LOL.
     
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    Moving to a bigger place.

    In Houston.
     
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    ~ I have a house for sale in hot & humid Florida. I hope it's on Zillow ! I better check ... :house::?:
    { I am including a case of premium toilet tissue :tp: }
     
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    What county are you in so I can check it out (Zillow)? If I move there, I will promise you amazing baked goods from my wife and if you want to go shooting, I'll bring the ammo.
     
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    Austin is an amazing city... or was. I used to have AMD as a customer there and went often. The Live Music scene is excellent and the town is filled with great food too. It's also very eclectic with the shops. It's the San Francisco of Texas, and like San Francisco is sadly falling apart.
     
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    So he's trying to skate from donating his fortune to drug addicts on the street? What a racist.

    -sarcastic message decrypted
     
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    :buggered: ~ I hope that they do not have sidewalk sewers and a Texas version of Nancy Pelosi . . ! ? :omfg:´
     
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    Once Texas turns blue it is all over.
     
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    ~ With electronic and mail-in voting it won't be long.
     
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    That’s the funny part. Democrats leave areas they ruin and bring the same policy beliefs with them that destroy the areas they move to. Too naive to understand that it’s THEM.
     
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    We don't have many sidewalk sewers yet. We do have bridge trolls.

    And Austin's Pelosi is Mayor Steve Adler who posted a video telling everyone to stay home for Thanksgiving. He was vacationing at his time share in Cabo San Lucas when he recorded his message.

    Can't imagine there will be many open slots under the bridge once landlords are able to start evicting people who city government has said didn't have to pay rent for the last seven or eight months....but would have to pay all amounts due "later".

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    Not Idaho.

    Meridian is soulless new sprawl.
     
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    9.3% of California's residence are on the government teat while only 6.9% of Texan's are...

    There are 151,278 homeless in California while only 25,848 are considered homeless in Texas.

    I would say your summation is a tad off.
     
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    Consider moving somewhere in a rural part of the Texas Hill Country, maybe around Bandera, or in Kerr County (Kerrville). Gillespie County is nice, but it's gotten pricey. Hell, everything has gotten expensive... but, if you're retired military, in the Hill Country you'd still be close enough to San Antonio to have relatively easy access to military bases, hospitals, etc.

    But don't (DON'T) think about moving to San Antonio itself! Nowhere else in the 'first-world' have I ever seen such a horrible traffic situation and massive disruption caused by ENDLESS construction projects -- especially on the north and northwest sides of the city.

    If you lived in Bandera, Comfort, Boerne, Kerrville, etc., you'd probably only need (or WANT) to go into San Antonio two or three times a year.

    One other thing: Texans like to brag about how they don't have a personal income tax, BUT, they tax the hell out of private property (like houses) to make up for it... much to the delight of the the public school bureaucracies and the teachers' unions!

    [​IMG]. Beautiful country, and the finest people left in the world! 8)
     
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    Not sure his political affiliation, but there is a concerted effort by companies moving to Texas and Florida to change those states to blue. I hope they know this and put some type of measures in place to keep it from happening.
     
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    Musk strikes me as a minarchist libertarian.

    Joe Rogan is a progressive and was a Bernie Sanders supporter.

    I don't know that any company has a "strategy" of turning Texas blue when they relocate here, but certainly the effect is realized when West Coast technology companies move to red states and pay relocation expenses to bring hundreds or thousands of their West Coast employees with them.

    But even long existing Texas-based companies are booming, need skilled labor and will hire people from blue areas of the country and pay them to move here to work. They aren't going to screen people by political philosophy (in red states anyway).

    Neither a company or a government can "put measures in place" to influence people how they should vote.

    But yes, moving a bunch of left-wingers to red states is definitely a political risk. All the policies that make red states profitable and wealthy could get voted out of existence by the ignorant blue state migrants. Then there will be no affordable place to run where people can create wealth for themselves and enjoy a decent disposable income.
     
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    Yes... I have seen that. I am looking on the outskirts where there is water and nature, not the urban sprawl areas which I too despise.
     
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    ~ There's no surfing in Idaho - HO ... :bleh:
    But you could try inventing a new sport - Snow Surfboarding ! :eekeyes:´
     
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    lol... I grew up in the foothills just below Squaw Valley and we skied constantly. I took up Snowboarding when it first came out, but still prefer Skiing. Then I got a Surfboard at UCSD in my early 20's and that was the end of Skiing. Surfing rules for me.
     
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    LOL Texas is now the "Gateway to Mars".

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    Elon Musk confirms: ‘Yes, I have moved to Texas’
    Another of a growing rush of major corporations, including HP, a progenitor of silicon Valley, getting out of the fast deteriorating state of California. All in recognition of Democrat officials' best capability-- they can destroy things better and faster than anybody.
     
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    That was quite a stunning recent message that Hewlett-Packard was moving to Texas. My guess is that they could easily occupy the large 'campus' that they acquired when HP bought Compaq in 2002. I've often wondered what HP did with that property (in Houston). Now, it appears that we have an idea....
     
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    The most loony lefty I know lives in California. Her and her husband bought a house in San Diego. After a couple of years, a homeless tent city popped up across the street from their development. They had people using their hose to bathe, their garbage cans were stolen, numerous times, the broke down fences, **** on their lawn... all kinds of horrid. The cops won't do anything. The moment you say "homeless," they hang up on you.

    They now live in Joshua Tree.
     
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    Joshua Tree?! Man, that's definitely 'out there'. But, your friends probably aren't 'bummed' by bums anymore on the 'high desert'. Gets really hot in the summer, and the nights can be surprisingly cold in winter. Besides, it's too far away from free food, free taxpayer-supplied "services", and drugs.

    But, even in a place like Joshua Tree, I'd keep my doors locked, my weapons loaded, and I'd mind my own damned business....

    [​IMG]. "Passed through Joshua Tree once -- ON MY WAY TO SAN DIEGO!" :banana:
     
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    :clapping: ~ If enough people leave California taking their backwards "progressive" politics with them the state will turn red once again :pray:
     

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