[abernard1]

I suspect, having had a long career in tech, no one of import will care.

"The Industry" is an embarrassment. It is lazy, incompetent, and would be drowning if not for its oligopoly status. Companies who produce useful software will win out over the lackadaisical tech culture that exists today.

What the people bemoaning this decision should worry about is the regulatory backlash against technology--coming from the right--which they totally ignored and pretended was not possible. This decision is a precursor to that inevitability.

[jleyank]

Err, having had a long career in tech, I’ve found that companies like to hire younger people. Those who might be sexually active, considering starting families and trying to balance career requirement vs pregnancies. Such as young professors, rising developers, pretty much every aspect of stem. While the regulatory backlash is a concern, I would think that attracting or keeping staff is a larger concern.

[abernard1]

And I, having seen Austin, TX grow from a laughingstock to an industry powerhouse, find your points humorous.

There is a very big elephant in the room for where people are moving. And those people are young. And those people do not have the belief monoculture that has existed prior.

Smaller elephant in the room #2 is that cost pressures and globalism don't care about the opinions of the traditional PMC that has reigned supreme when tech was on the upswing.

[itza1]

Sure we believe in the ‘monoculture.’

Every tech worker I know who moved to Austin is here in spite the fact it’s in a conservative state, not because of it.

What it comes down to is the south has nice weather and is relatively underpopulated for historical reasons. Nothing else.

And frankly, having moved from Seattle, ‘powerhouse’ is an overstatement. Austin is a nice place, but has a long way to go in terms of engineering talent.

[abernard1]

> Every tech worker I know who moved to Austin is here in spite the fact it’s in a conservative state, not because of it.

Then you missed the party. I hate to break it to you. Welcome to being a consumer of tech culture, not a producer of it.

[wonnage]

Austin is a long way from being a "tech powerhouse"

[abernard1]

Well, perhaps. But at least when they had homeless people dying on the streets and shit all over the place, they finally cleaned it up in a little over a year.

One may ask how many decades it takes for that to happen in the places all the imports are from.

[minhazm]

Take a look at the voting numbers for Austin, TX. It's overwhelmingly democrat. 71% of Travis County votes were for Joe Biden[1]. The people moving to Austin are no different from the people that moved to San Francisco or Seattle in the first place.

[1] https://countyclerk.traviscountytx.gov/wp-content/uploads/el...

[abernard1]

Dude, you do not understand Texas Democrats. And Texas Democrats do not understand you.

If they did, frankly, they would not vote the way they do. There is a type of cultural elitism, and a freeness that Austin voters have that is not indicative of the SF or Seattle voters. People who have been there any appreciable amount of time understand how much Austin leftists actually dislike the imports.

[etchalon]

I live in Austin.

That is factually inaccurate.

[rglullis]

PMC?

[PebblesRox]

I think it stands for Professional Managerial Class.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional%E2%80%93manager...