<story><title>Elon Musk moves to Texas</title><url>https://www.ktvu.com/news/tesla-ceo-elon-musk-critical-of-california-leaves-the-state-and-moves-to-texas</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>techsupporter</author><text>My birth certificate says &amp;quot;Texas&amp;quot; across the top and people have been &amp;quot;fleeing California&amp;quot; to Texas for as long as I&amp;#x27;ve been alive.  There&amp;#x27;s nothing special about Musk; he just happens to be high-profile about it and managed to extract more from California before decamping to a &amp;quot;cheap&amp;quot; state than several of those who came before him.&lt;p&gt;I disagree with your assessment that Texas has wide acceptance for opposing viewpoints, at least out in the suburbs where I grew up.  If you were not religious and conservative (I have my own anecdotes), you did not fit in.  Only when I went to college in a college town did people largely seem to want to live and let live.  Sure, inside the larger cities it is more cosmopolitan, for lack of a better word, but lots of people live in the &amp;#x27;burbs and around the smaller areas and do not get the benefit of this peaceful coexistence.  For example, to this day I do not recommend being openly gay and living near Tyler.&lt;p&gt;If someone moved to Texas, they made a choice to accept it and I will not knock people for their individual choices.  But my experience is not that the prevailing view is open acceptance of people of all stripes like found in other parts of the country.</text></item><item><author>S_A_P</author><text>Pretty interesting to see this move makes people so salty. There does seem to be a trend of people fleeing California, I dont know enough about the situation out there to comment on whether or not its valid. I suspect &lt;i&gt;something&lt;/i&gt; must be going on for several high profile folks moving out. And before you bash Texas, its not perfect. But its pretty diverse, and it seems that folks with opposing viewpoints can still coexist here. I like that...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>woah</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s been a massive windfall to people who have been homeowners for 40 years in California. High rents due to the fact that you&amp;#x27;re not allowed to build new housing, high property taxes paid by new residents, while old residents pay nothing, high income and sales taxes to paper over the gap in the budget left by the lack of property tax paid by longtime residents.&lt;p&gt;The whole system has been optimized to milk as much money as possible from newcomers. The people in power in California even scapegoated the newcomers for a long time, and pretended that they were unwanted. Now that the system has finally become unsustainable, we get these ridiculous takes about how somebody &amp;quot;extracted wealth&amp;quot; from California.</text></comment>
<story><title>Elon Musk moves to Texas</title><url>https://www.ktvu.com/news/tesla-ceo-elon-musk-critical-of-california-leaves-the-state-and-moves-to-texas</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>techsupporter</author><text>My birth certificate says &amp;quot;Texas&amp;quot; across the top and people have been &amp;quot;fleeing California&amp;quot; to Texas for as long as I&amp;#x27;ve been alive.  There&amp;#x27;s nothing special about Musk; he just happens to be high-profile about it and managed to extract more from California before decamping to a &amp;quot;cheap&amp;quot; state than several of those who came before him.&lt;p&gt;I disagree with your assessment that Texas has wide acceptance for opposing viewpoints, at least out in the suburbs where I grew up.  If you were not religious and conservative (I have my own anecdotes), you did not fit in.  Only when I went to college in a college town did people largely seem to want to live and let live.  Sure, inside the larger cities it is more cosmopolitan, for lack of a better word, but lots of people live in the &amp;#x27;burbs and around the smaller areas and do not get the benefit of this peaceful coexistence.  For example, to this day I do not recommend being openly gay and living near Tyler.&lt;p&gt;If someone moved to Texas, they made a choice to accept it and I will not knock people for their individual choices.  But my experience is not that the prevailing view is open acceptance of people of all stripes like found in other parts of the country.</text></item><item><author>S_A_P</author><text>Pretty interesting to see this move makes people so salty. There does seem to be a trend of people fleeing California, I dont know enough about the situation out there to comment on whether or not its valid. I suspect &lt;i&gt;something&lt;/i&gt; must be going on for several high profile folks moving out. And before you bash Texas, its not perfect. But its pretty diverse, and it seems that folks with opposing viewpoints can still coexist here. I like that...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>WillPostForFood</author><text>How long have you been out of Texas? I think we know people aren&amp;#x27;t coming to Texas to live in Tyler; They are moving to the cities, Dallas, Houston, Austin, San Antonio, which are all diverse, and have large gay communities.&lt;p&gt;Even Tyler has changed. (old article, but still)&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.advocate.com&amp;#x2F;society&amp;#x2F;activism&amp;#x2F;2009&amp;#x2F;09&amp;#x2F;29&amp;#x2F;gays-take-east-texas-highway-storm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.advocate.com&amp;#x2F;society&amp;#x2F;activism&amp;#x2F;2009&amp;#x2F;09&amp;#x2F;29&amp;#x2F;gays-ta...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>