Oracle moving from California to Texas, joins Tesla, Hewlett Packard

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Is anyone shocked that companies will move to states with a more favorable business environment? CA politicians can’t increase taxes and regulations and expect companies to just take it. Like coal and oil workers moving from town to town, the CA tech mine is tapped out; sucked dry by career politicians that assumed that big tech would always be here to stay regardless of policy.
 
Historically California has been considered a land of opportunity. At least as a kid growing up in California that is what I was taught. Appears times have changed.

I can remember when businesses left New York the Democrats there would say good by and good riddance. Imagine California politicians have become similar as New York elected officials.
 
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As a California resident myself, I can’t say that this doesn’t bother me.
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I imagine it bothers a few Texans too. All these Californians are going to be bringing their politics with them. Texas is already starting to exhibit a slightly purplish hue. Wonder how long it will be before it becomes full-on blue?
 
Greedy corporations just maximizing their profits. That’s what they do.

It’s capitalism.
 
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I imagine it bothers a few Texans too. All these Californians are going to be bringing their politics with them. Texas is already starting to exhibit a slightly purplish hue. Wonder how long it will be before it becomes full-on blue?
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A certain KCFlyer has said the following:
Austin is the most liberal city in Texas. Texas might welcome that until…the median home price in Austin is $355,000. The median home price in Palo Alto is $3,000,000. What’s that thing about supply and demand? There is no place in Texas where the median home price is over a million…with an influx of people paying a million dollars for a house that used to sell for $300k, since that house would be double the size of anything they could get in California and even at a million, they’ll think they are getting a bargain…they will recreate the problems in San Francisco and Palo Alto…housing affordability. I wonder if they will adjust salaries to be commensurate with the cost of living in South Texas, or if South Texas will have prices adjust to take advantage of the increased incomes of the transplants.
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Conservative commentator Michael Barone has said the following:
Some upscale Texans trended Democratic in 2018, and perhaps some incoming Californians might import the left-wing politics whose results spurred their migration, as in Colorado and Arizona. But Texas’s middle-income Latinos and high-education whites remain much more Republican than their California counterparts.
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