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Texas has absolutely zero response to Silicon Valley.
Texas has absolutely zero response to Hollywood.
Texas has absolutely zero response to California's universities.
They will never, and can never assume any level above being the cheap-place-to-ship-mediocre-jobs until they step up their game as far as tech as far as becoming a real media capital, and until their schools command respect on the global level.
California will continue to hover over Texas in the meantime, which appears to be for the foreseeable future.
All valid and true statements. But this can go both ways. Texas is strong in other areas that California simply can't match. California has zero response to the energy sector of Texas for example, or the Texas Medical Center.
Texas does have a response to Silicon Valley...its called Silicon Hills in Austin/Central Texas & Silicon Prairie in Dallas/North Texas.
Its no wonder Apple chose TEXAS as the place to assemble its Macs, not China or California.
"Texas is a natural for Apple.
The company already has a large presence in the Lone Star State's capital of Austin, and recently broke ground there on a multi-phase project that will add one million square-feet of office space to an existing campus. The expansion, scheduled for completion in 2021, will cost an estimated $304 million and add 3,600 jobs to Apple's Texas workforce."
Texas does have a response to Silicone Valley...its called Silicone Hills in Austin/Central Texas & Silicone Prairie in Dallas/North Texas.
Its no wonder Apple chose TEXAS as the place to assemble its Macs, not China or California.
"Texas is a natural for Apple.
The company already has a large presence in the Lone Star State's capital of Austin, and recently broke ground there on a multi-phase project that will add one million square-feet of office space to an existing campus. The expansion, scheduled for completion in 2021, will cost an estimated $304 million and add 3,600 jobs to Apple's Texas workforce."
All valid and true statements. But this can go both ways. Texas is strong in other areas that California simply can't match. California has zero response to the energy sector of Texas for example, or the Texas Medical Center.
I gladly concede that you win as far as oil and gas production. By all means.
On the other hand, the Texas Medical Center is a group of hospitals that is important to TX and has very little impact on the entire country, and really no hospital dominates the entire field but for some reason, many people in Houston think Texas Medical Center is like the Wall Street of health care and that is clearly not the case. According to USNews, we have better hospitals and better medical schools.
UCLA, UCSF and Cedars-Sinai are all more highly regarded hospitals. Probably Stanford too.
You do realize that this is why people are calling Texas the "China of the US", right? It's basically a cheap place to make stuff.
And for the love of god, it's "silicon" not "silicone".
I don't give a rats ass what California or anyone else wants to call Texas out of jealousy its creating American jobs instead of sending them over seas or across the border into Mexico.
LOL yet your governor Rick Perry, who wanted to secede, was in favor of sending US jobs overseas to places like China. And y'all are the ones who elected him. So much for being proud patriots.
Texas does have a response to Silicon Valley...its called Silicon Hills in Austin/Central Texas & Silicon Prairie in Dallas/North Texas.
Its no wonder Apple chose TEXAS as the place to assemble its Macs, not China or California.
"Texas is a natural for Apple.
The company already has a large presence in the Lone Star State's capital of Austin, and recently broke ground there on a multi-phase project that will add one million square-feet of office space to an existing campus. The expansion, scheduled for completion in 2021, will cost an estimated $304 million and add 3,600 jobs to Apple's Texas workforce."
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I don't give a rats ass what California or anyone else wants to call Texas out of jealousy its creating American jobs instead of sending them over seas or across the border into Mexico.
Originally Posted by Metro Matt
Texas does have a response to Silicone Valley...its called Silicone Hills in Austin/Central Texas & Silicone Prairie in Dallas/North Texas.
The fact that you don't give a rat's ass about accurately informing yourself is well established...as is your penchant to gauge Texas' importance based on things like how many rappers mention a city located hours away from where you live.
Really? "Silicone" Prairie and Hills is the answer? The Bay Area alone trumps them. Add in LA/OC and San Diego and you're in another world altogether. "Silicone." Hilarious.
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