I don’t like forced in-person work unless it’s just a quarterly on-site where they fly us in and pay for accommodations. I agree that Texas is fucked until they fix their abortion laws, however it is worth mentioning that Austin is a liberal city and does not function the same way as the rest of Texas in many regards. It is becoming a tech hub and would be cool if my company relocated there, as long as they flew me in quarterly and didn’t expect anything more than that. Really great BBQ. They do have a bad homeless problem though.
Being in a liberal city in a horribly red state doesn’t protect residents from the cruelty of said state. It doesn’t stop the racial profiling intended to terrorize immigrant/mixed stays families, it doesn’t re-attract healthcare workers, it doesn’t prevent kids getting harassed for their pronouns in schools. In many places, Texas makes laws that takes away power from it’s more liberal areas, like how Houston schools have been taken over by the state, or how Denton can’t ban fracking in its city limits. Also, Texas doesn’t have a ton of public lands (state/national parks) for people to use. But what people lose by moving to a state like Texas, they gain in so many new experiences: being sued by anyone and everyone for abortions, waiting for hours to vote, the glorification of guns, legislators arguing to put the 10 commandments in every classroom in the state, $7.25 minimum wage (hell, again, the state doesn’t even allow cities to set higher minimum wages within their limits), right to work/get fired, an electric grid not up to federal standards, and so much more. But yeah, the BBQ is really fucking good. And the fresh flour tortillas, those are amazing. I wish I had a Chuy’s nearby…
Yeah. I don’t want to live there, but if my company wants to tax shelter there and fly me in occasionally for Franklin brisket and La BBQ everything else, that would be perfectly fine. The state will hopefully improve in time.
I don’t like forced in-person work unless it’s just a quarterly on-site where they fly us in and pay for accommodations. I agree that Texas is fucked until they fix their abortion laws, however it is worth mentioning that Austin is a liberal city and does not function the same way as the rest of Texas in many regards. It is becoming a tech hub and would be cool if my company relocated there, as long as they flew me in quarterly and didn’t expect anything more than that. Really great BBQ. They do have a bad homeless problem though.
Austins housing market tanking is a clear indicator that people said “wtf this places sucks?”
Almost virtually everything is worse in Texas than CA lol.
Being in a liberal city in a horribly red state doesn’t protect residents from the cruelty of said state. It doesn’t stop the racial profiling intended to terrorize immigrant/mixed stays families, it doesn’t re-attract healthcare workers, it doesn’t prevent kids getting harassed for their pronouns in schools. In many places, Texas makes laws that takes away power from it’s more liberal areas, like how Houston schools have been taken over by the state, or how Denton can’t ban fracking in its city limits. Also, Texas doesn’t have a ton of public lands (state/national parks) for people to use. But what people lose by moving to a state like Texas, they gain in so many new experiences: being sued by anyone and everyone for abortions, waiting for hours to vote, the glorification of guns, legislators arguing to put the 10 commandments in every classroom in the state, $7.25 minimum wage (hell, again, the state doesn’t even allow cities to set higher minimum wages within their limits), right to work/get fired, an electric grid not up to federal standards, and so much more. But yeah, the BBQ is really fucking good. And the fresh flour tortillas, those are amazing. I wish I had a Chuy’s nearby…
Yeah. I don’t want to live there, but if my company wants to tax shelter there and fly me in occasionally for Franklin brisket and La BBQ everything else, that would be perfectly fine. The state will hopefully improve in time.