Don't move to Texas
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Gabriel Farid Guerra said he was extremely underwhelmed after moving to Austin from New York in 2022. Working a completely remote job at the time, he said he signed a one-year lease in the city, chasing the idea that it was “the new, booming U.S. tech hub.”
Compared with New York and San Francisco, he said, tech events were harder to find, the quality of events was lower and opportunities for new roles were sparser. Public transit also left something to be desired, he said.
He broke his Austin lease after six months, and after bouncing to Boston and Washington, D.C., Guerra moved to San Francisco. He recalled that when he was living in D.C., he was asked in which regions his then-employer, startup Antithesis, should promote its software product.
“They gave me a list of cities and asked me about Austin, and I said, ‘No, not Austin. It’s kind of dead.,” he said.
Reza Khosravi, a startup founder, relocated in 2021 from San Francisco to split his time between Dallas and Austin. He found the move to be a big culture shift. Innovation and diversity are deeply ingrained in Silicon Valley culture, he said, adding, “I did not find that in Austin.”
AI brought him back to San Francisco, where the networking and learning opportunities are unmatched, he said. SignalFire’s numbers show that Big Tech employment in San Francisco grew 1.8% in 2024, while startup employment grew 0.8%.
Khosravi? Having lived in Austin and worked in tech, I specifically wonder what kind of "diversity" he was looking for?
Batsute
The Lion Choker
Asian girls that will fukk him.
Spidey Man
Superstar
Example 5093 of Republicans don't give a shyt about children and proper governance. I wonder if all those dead children were worth saving a few bucks in taxes
Hood Critic
The Power Circle
People clearly underestimated how state politics and culture plays a big part in making places like silicone valley what it is today.
Austin is a liberal city and everyone thought they could ride the Tesla wave into cheaper margins by coming here.
This is the same state that has people convinced the grid problems were because of windmills and not the lack of a tie in to the national grid.
sjankis630
Pro
Austinites I keep hearing how liberal a city Austin is and then I read articles like the one below which claim how segregated it really is. What is the true Austin? This article is over 10 years old so is this still the practice?
Batsute
The Lion Choker
Googles author, at the time writing a 39 yo Mexican woman.
I don’t know where she got the idea that a historic college town was gonna be this Latin paradise. She just mad she’s a Mexican with money and she wondering where the other Mexicans where money are. She is right there are a ton of Mexicans on the south side as my boxing gym was infested with em.
mastermind
Rest In Power Kobe
It’s more wealthy/nonwealthy now. The wealthy have a lot of land on the west part of the city and refuse to let in anymore density.
But old black Austin residents have moved to north Austin and north of Austin in Pflugerville and Cedar Park. East Austin is gentrified.
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mastermind
Rest In Power Kobe
Infested? You sick in the headGoogles author, at the time writing a 39 yo Mexican woman.
I don’t know where she got the idea that a historic college town was gonna be this Latin paradise. She just mad she’s a Mexican with money and she wondering where the other Mexicans where money are. She is right there are a ton of Mexicans on the south side as my boxing gym was infested with em.
Spidey Man
Superstar
Damn 80 dead now in those floods and probably more to go. I'll leave out what part DOGE cuts might have played in this disaster, but local officials in Texas deserve all the blame.
What makes people think that's a good area to build a campground, and what kind of state government would allow any business to operate in that area? What kind of parents would send their children to an area like that? Good thing I have no reason or plans to ever live in Texas
What makes people think that's a good area to build a campground, and what kind of state government would allow any business to operate in that area? What kind of parents would send their children to an area like that? Good thing I have no reason or plans to ever live in Texas
88m3
Fast Money & Foreign Objects
@the next guy check this out, Bro. They're talking about segregation in Texas! Next thing you know I'm going to find out there are sundown towns down there in the south.
the next guy
Superstar
People have the right to associate with who they want breh
Even if its a running river
If you say otherwise you hate freedom!!
Live down south brehs!
ADevilYouKhow
Rhyme Reason
Death toll of central Texas flash floods rises to at least 81, officials say — CBS News
Almost a dozen people from a children's summer camp in Kerr County remain missing, officials said.
apple.news
Sick to watch Trump and Musk deny any accountability for this preventable tragedy.
Plenty of blame to go around at the local level as usual as well