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Gonna have to go with California in this one. Don't hear much about Texas around here other than bad stuff. Plus the cowboys stink and the miners are peaking.
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Like In N Out & Jollibee relocating here?
Official Grand Opening in Texas (Houston) today.
Oh Matt, you didn't just pin the future of Texas on the opening of a couple burger franchises, did you?
While you guys are out counting license plates and hamburger joints, California is undertaking major public works projects and expanding the largest economy in the country.
Gonna have to go with California in this one. Don't hear much about Texas around here other than bad stuff. Plus the cowboys stink and the miners are peaking.
Except for I am moving to Texas from random neighbor X you are prob right..lol
Oh Matt, you didn't just pin the future of Texas on the opening of a couple burger franchises, did you?
While you guys are out counting license plates and hamburger joints, California is undertaking major public works projects and expanding the largest economy in the country.
No I will pin our future on our expand port.. which passed NYC in exports
I will pin it on a massavie medical complex, which continues to expand
I will pin it on a growing Tech industry
I will pin it on a growing aerospace program
Where are the Apples, Microsofts, Teslas, Googles, SpaceXs, Facebooks, of Texas? Has any successful innovative business ever come from there? SpaceX built a rocket test facility there because of the cheap land and lack of environmental regulations, but NASA built one in the swamps of Mississippi too, way back in the 50's. In my view, Texas is kind of the China of the United States. It's an okay place to do your manufacturing because you can pay your workers nothing and dump your toxic waste in the rivers or air, for now. Once the resources are gone or totally polluted, and the locals start agitating for clean drinking water, pull up stakes and move on. California is the place you want to put your R&D departments and headquarters. Costs are higher, but its easier to attract the top talent, who are picky about where they live.
Nobody I know would willingly move to Texas from anywhere (even the Midwest), but everyone wants to live in California. It's not surprising, since Texas seems like a giant flat sweltering swamp or desert with dirty oil beaches, no mountains to speak of, and tornadoes and hurricanes 9 months out of the year. Where can you drive to for vacation in Texas? Somewhere slightly less awful, I guess, like New Mexico?
I wish that everyone was really leaving California, as some op-ed's like to claim. But if that were true, we wouldn't have seen CA be the last housing market to collapse or the first to recover.
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No I will pin our future on our expand port.. which passed NYC in exports
I will pin it on a massavie medical complex, which continues to expand
I will pin it on a growing Tech industry
I will pin it on a growing aerospace program
and so forth and so on
I was replying to Matt's ridiculous hamburger post. But, since you brought all that into a Texas vs. California economic relevance thread, you do realize that statewide, in each of those categories you list, California is ahead of Texas and growing at similar, if not greater measures, right?
Where are the Apples, Microsofts, Teslas, Googles, SpaceXs, Facebooks, of Texas? Has any successful innovative business ever come from there? SpaceX built a rocket test facility there because of the cheap land and lack of environmental regulations, but NASA built one in the swamps of Mississippi too, way back in the 50's. In my view, Texas is kind of the China of the United States. It's an okay place to do your manufacturing because you can pay your workers nothing and dump your toxic waste in the rivers or air, for now. Once the resources are gone or totally polluted, and the locals start agitating for clean drinking water, pull up stakes and move on. California is the place you want to put your R&D departments and headquarters. Costs are higher, but its easier to attract the top talent, who are picky about where they live.
Nobody I know would willingly move to Texas from anywhere (even the Midwest), but everyone wants to live in California. It's not surprising, since Texas seems like a giant flat sweltering swamp or desert with dirty oil beaches, no mountains to speak of, and tornadoes and hurricanes 9 months out of the year. Where can you drive to for vacation in Texas? Somewhere slightly less awful, I guess, like New Mexico?
I wish that everyone was really leaving California, as some op-ed's like to claim. But if that were true, we wouldn't have seen CA be the last housing market to collapse or the first to recover.
WOW so much wrong with this where to began.. Texas was the last housing market to be hit and was the first out the gate to re-coop it losses.in fact we cant build fast enough for demand.
You are clearly ignorant have no clue about what you are talking about. do yourself a favor and stay out o this
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