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    I’m Leaving Seattle for Texas So My Employees Can Be Free

    I found an instance where federalism still exists!

    I’m Leaving Seattle for Texas So My Employees Can Be Free

    I’m moving my business headquarters off the West Coast. We tried San Francisco. We tried the Seattle area. Both were wonderful in their own ways, especially in natural beauty and personal friendships. But both have become hostile to the principles and policies that enable people to live abundantly in the broadest sense.

    That’s why my company is in the final stages of purchasing office space in Austin, Texas. By the end of the year, I hope to move dozens of employees to the Lone Star State and to be ready to hire hundreds more. While uprooting a big part of a billion-dollar company isn’t easy, the decision to move to Texas wasn’t hard. Our staff and their families will be able to flourish to a much greater extent.

    Leaving the West Coast might seem strange for a company focused on tech ventures and related investments. It’s true that the company has benefited greatly from the larger pool of forward thinkers and industry disrupters in the tech hot spots of San Francisco and Seattle. But the best places to be in tech have now become some of the worst places to raise a family, practice a faith, or even think freely. This hurts my team and the business.

    These areas are culturally diverse but increasingly monolithic in terms of ideology. In the past few weeks, radical protesters took over a portion of Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood. The mood in the area was that this experiment in anarchy was acceptable and even praiseworthy. Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan even issued a statement commending the “First Amendment activities” of the occupiers.

    The response to the Covid-19 pandemic has been similarly disheartening....
    Read the rest at the link.
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    I would have liked to have read the rest of the article, but I can't unless I subscribe and agree to receiving their SPAM.
    ...and my AD BLOCKER blocked 105 ads that wanted to pop-up.


    Shame...it sounded like a good read.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Retirednsmilin308 View Post
    I would have liked to have read the rest of the article, but I can't unless I subscribe and agree to receiving their SPAM.
    ...and my AD BLOCKER blocked 105 ads that wanted to pop-up.


    Shame...it sounded like a good read.
    Sorry, didn't realize it was pay-per-view. I hate those sites, like NYT, WaPo, and others.
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    What.....more people leaving from Demo $#@!holes. Say it isn't so.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Chris View Post
    I found an instance where federalism still exists!

    I’m Leaving Seattle for Texas So My Employees Can Be Free



    Read the rest at the link.
    Don't come down here voting the same way you did up there. We don't want you electing the same kind of idiots.
    I am tired of everyone fighting with each other. This is all by design.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Chris View Post
    Sorry, didn't realize it was pay-per-view. I hate those sites, like NYT, WaPo, and others.
    No worries.

    Unfortunately, they will find the Austin, TX freeway system to be a nightmare. Not so much because of traffic, but because they were designed goofy and the guy who designed them killed himself.

    Houston would have been a better shoice if they wanted high tech. Hell, even dallas or Ft. Worth would have been better than Austin.

    I think he chose Austin because it is the liberal mecca down here and their motto is " Keep Austin Weird".
    There was a man that got elected to city council who would dress up like a nun and walk around to different bars with a beer bottle sticking out of his butt.
    I ain't lieing. Look it up.

    The Seattle crowd should fit right in.
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    Quote Originally Posted by MMC View Post
    What.....more people leaving from Demo $#@!holes. Say it isn't so.
    But we mustn't blame Dems. Correlation is not causation!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Retirednsmilin308 View Post
    No worries.

    Unfortunately, they will find the Austin, TX freeway system to be a nightmare. Not so much because of traffic, but because they were designed goofy and the guy who designed them killed himself.

    Houston would have been a better shoice if they wanted high tech. Hell, even dallas or Ft. Worth would have been better than Austin.

    I think he chose Austin because it is the liberal mecca down here and their motto is " Keep Austin Weird".
    There was a man that got elected to city council who would dress up like a nun and walk around to different bars with a beer bottle sticking out of his butt.
    I ain't lieing. Look it up.

    The Seattle crowd should fit right in.
    Yea I have family up the road in Austin. Lousy traffic and liberals.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Retirednsmilin308 View Post
    No worries.

    Unfortunately, they will find the Austin, TX freeway system to be a nightmare. Not so much because of traffic, but because they were designed goofy and the guy who designed them killed himself.

    Houston would have been a better shoice if they wanted high tech. Hell, even dallas or Ft. Worth would have been better than Austin.

    I think he chose Austin because it is the liberal mecca down here and their motto is " Keep Austin Weird".
    There was a man that got elected to city council who would dress up like a nun and walk around to different bars with a beer bottle sticking out of his butt.
    I ain't lieing. Look it up.

    The Seattle crowd should fit right in.
    The traffic in Austin sucks!

    Dallas Ft Worth is the better location here.
    I am tired of everyone fighting with each other. This is all by design.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Chris View Post
    But we mustn't blame Dems. Correlation is not causation!
    Sounds like more denial of reality to me.
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