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Old 12-13-2020, 11:10 AM
 
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I'll take some credit for pushing pulled pork and sweet tea onto the menus when we arrived 13 years ago
I see what you did there

Austin did surprise me about how much more difficult it was to find sweet tea here than it was in Atlanta.
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Old 12-13-2020, 02:27 PM
 
Location: Dallas
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Maybe it’s the BBQ?
Absolutely! Schmidt Family BBQ in Bee Cave is the best.
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Old 12-13-2020, 05:18 PM
 
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Oh crap....here comes the best of bbq war again.
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Old 12-13-2020, 07:20 PM
 
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All I see is another follow the sheep company. If they were really bright they would have chosen another area to stimulate the economy. New Mexico would have been better for example............
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Old 12-13-2020, 10:48 PM
 
Location: Austin, TX
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All I see is another follow the sheep company. If they were really bright they would have chosen another area to stimulate the economy. New Mexico would have been better for example............
I do a lot of work in NM. Actually, the company I do work for does a lot of work in NM, but they are actually based in Texas for good reasons. NM is far from business friendly and has a pretty ****-poor infrastructure. There are some great things about NM, but running an international business from there is not one of them.
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Old 12-14-2020, 07:10 AM
 
Location: Dallas
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All I see is another follow the sheep company. If they were really bright they would have chosen another area to stimulate the economy. New Mexico would have been better for example............
Why would any company decide where to locate based on stimulating the economy?
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Old 12-16-2020, 09:20 PM
 
Location: Holly Neighborhood, Austin, Texas
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I do a lot of work in NM. Actually, the company I do work for does a lot of work in NM, but they are actually based in Texas for good reasons. NM is far from business friendly and has a pretty ****-poor infrastructure. There are some great things about NM, but running an international business from there is not one of them.

Very true. From wikipedia: "On January 1, 1979, the company (Microsoft) moved from Albuquerque to a new home in Bellevue, Washington, since it was hard to recruit top programmers to Albuquerque."
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Old 12-17-2020, 02:04 AM
 
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Oracle could have gone to Arizona then... but Phoenix does have some tech there already
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Old 12-17-2020, 08:48 AM
 
Location: Austin, TX
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Very true. From wikipedia: "On January 1, 1979, the company (Microsoft) moved from Albuquerque to a new home in Bellevue, Washington, since it was hard to recruit top programmers to Albuquerque."
Albuquerque is listed as one of the top 10 highest crime cities in the US and also top 10 for poverty. That represents 1/4 of the state's population, give or take. NM also has one of the lowest ranked medical systems and one of (if not the) worst bed/resident ratio in the country.

Santa Fe, just 50 miles north, has a median home price (for the county) of $536k, which is $100k higher than Travis County. It is actually cheaper by $100k to live in the city of Santa Fe, but the building restrictions are insane and the houses much smaller.

Las Cruces is the second largest city in the state and about the size of San Angelo, population-wise. The crime is much lower (quite low, in fact) and the housing prices less than half of Santa Fe. But it is more like a far-out suburb of El Paso, for business purposes.
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