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How is more business and job growth coming to Texas a bad thing? As for people moving here turning our state into Cali/NY, why do you negate the possibility of them turning into Texans instead?
It depends on WHY people move to area in assessing whether or not they will adapt to the culture or be resistant.
If you're going for high-level corporate work you aren't likely to adapt to the native culture.
I know what I am talking about. Maybe if you live there all yer life, you don't see it or hear it or all the N-words and Jesus stuff and Texas culture just becomes part of the background noise.
I heard more N-words when I lived in CA than in TX. Maybe if you live in CA all yer life you would get used to it.
I was so used to being abused in California (as a child!!) that when people were nice to me here, I was suspicious and constantly taken aback. And we lived in a very nice area.
Most on this board still believe there is two-party system and not an oligarchy so it will fall on deaf ears.
That's why I emphasize culture and weather so much in my personal life.
When Texas faces the issues that NY/California went thru cuz their booms were earlier it will reflect them more and more.
So you'll have high taxes/high COL with crappier weather, ugly topography, and a niche culture.
Sounds terrible to me.
Um. Plano has been a magnet for corporate national and international headquarters for 30+ years. This is not a new phenomenon here. I do think it has gotten a lot ruder and more impersonal the more transplants we get, though.
Companies move people and jobs all the time - for a variety of reasons. Boeing just recently moved a thousand engineering jobs from Seattle TO California (remember the whole thread about it?). Meanwhile high tech startup companies continue to crop up in (and relocate to) California:
"...Bottom line is this: For all the talk about taxes and trying to lure dynamic companies out of the state, it's really hard for other places to match the Silicon Valley talent and money community. And for dynamic companies there's just no substitute for that."
Exactly. The auto manufacturers may not necessarily be doing manufacturing in California - but many of them have opened R&D labs in Silicon Valley. Ford, GM, Chrysler, BMW all have done this. That's where the brainpower is.
You obviously don't know about CALTY, which is Toyota's design studio in Southern California. Nissan has one too. It's been there for decades.
The automobile industry has become more decentralized in terms of regions, to better get a bead on local markets and needs. What works for North America may not be ideal for say, India, Brazil, or China.
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