I'll never understand why Elon fled the policies of California to be subjected the same policies in Austin and to be subject to the whims of liberals. He could have built in any of several outlying areas that are not part of Austin.

Now, the environmentalists want to team up with the City of Austin to strangle Elon. It's all so predictable.

https://insideevs.com/news/587231/environmentalists-giga-texas/

I'm more pissed nobody goes to San Antonio, it's always Austin

That building is YUUUUGE. I pass it on 130 a lot.

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Tesla was offered tens of millions of public dollars in tax breaks from neighboring jurisdictions to come here

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That's why he built there.

BigRobSA said:

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That building is YUUUUGE. I pass it on 130 a lot.

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That's Austin still?

utah, get me two said:

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I'm more pissed nobody goes to San Antonio, it's always Austin

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Same reason they don't build factories in the RGV, just slightly less so. But you will never catch a Fortune 500 company saying it out loud

bigjag19 said:

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BigRobSA said:

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That building is YUUUUGE. I pass it on 130 a lot.

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That's Austin still?

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F if I know.

Tesla Rd is the name of the road after exiting 130

It's southeast corner of Austin city limits just to the east of Bergstrom.

Agree with Op, not sure why he would flee California to have to deal with Austin/Travis Co. Maybe has something to do with the power generation station less than a mile away and proximity to the airport.

Seems like it would have made more sense just to go little further down 71 to the Bastrop Co line. IMO. Or stay on the Williamson Co side off the toll to the north. Still great location for what gigaplant is doing.

utah, get me two said:

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I'm more pissed nobody goes to San Antonio, it's always Austin

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It's because the entire town of San Antonio smells like piss

Most People don't like to be in places that smell like piss

My Name Is Judge said:

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utah, get me two said:

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I'm more pissed nobody goes to San Antonio, it's always Austin

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It's because the entire town of San Antonio smells like piss

Most People don't like to be in places that smell like piss

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Asstin smells like **** and meth heads.

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It's southeast corner of Austin city limits just to the east of Bergstrom.

Agree with Op, not sure why he would flee California to have to deal with Austin/Travis Co. Maybe has something to do with the power generation station less than a mile away and proximity to the airport.

Seems like it would have made more sense just to go little further down 71 to the Bastrop Co line. IMO. Or stay on the Williamson Co side off the toll to the north. Still great location for what gigaplant is doing.

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If you know who to talk to in Austin/Travis and have ungodly amounts of money, they will roll over for you. Tavo Helmund was turning dirt on COTA before the virtual ink was dry on his permits.

Not sure what part of San Antonio you hangout in, but San Antonio is more family friendly and doesn't have homeless and hippies everywhere

They move to Austin so all their crazy leftist employees will move there for employment.

Austin is on track to be the next San Francisco. One giant garbage dump.

He's also in Pflugerville with the Boring Company. It's quickly turning into Austin with alot of folks moving in, but it's still more business friendly.

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Not sure what part of San Antonio you hangout in, but San Antonio is more family friendly and doesn't have homeless and hippies everywhere

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Dallas and Houston are black person corruption and idiocy.

Austin is white people of the same.

San Antonio is Hispanic people of the same.

That's it. That's my post.

No doubt Dallas and houston have lots of blacks but they also have Hispanics and major Fortune 500 companies. Honestly I just want more big money to come to San Antonio so we can get a professional baseball team

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utah, get me two said:

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Not sure what part of San Antonio you hangout in, but San Antonio is more family friendly and doesn't have homeless and hippies everywhere

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Dallas and Houston are black person corruption and idiocy.

Austin is white people of the same.

San Antonio is Hispanic people of the same.

That's it. That's my post.

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And El Paso? Don't nobody ever think about El Paso?

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I'll never understand why Elon fled the policies of California to be subjected the same policies in Austin and to be subject to the whims of liberals.

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In my experience, it seems like Austin is the only "cool" city in Texas from the perspective of people from large metro areas outside of Texas.

I agree it's dumb and Austin is massively overrated.

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No doubt Dallas and houston have lots of blacks but they also have Hispanics and major Fortune 500 companies. Honestly I just want more big money to come to San Antonio so we can get a professional baseball team

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Businesses don't want to come to San Antonio because they're going to have to deal with corruption and red tape on par with Mexico.

They come to Austin because they get the progressive lip service but don't have to worry about finding their child's body in their trunk.

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The environmentalists are also annoyed by the lack of progress on the promised "ecological paradise" Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted about.

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Imagine being naive enough to think Elon cares at all about the environment. Austin is slowly finding out that they got Musked.

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utah, get me two said:

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No doubt Dallas and houston have lots of blacks but they also have Hispanics and major Fortune 500 companies. Honestly I just want more big money to come to San Antonio so we can get a professional baseball team

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Businesses don't want to come to San Antonio because they're going to have to deal with corruption and red tape on par with Mexico.

They come to Austin because they get the progressive lip service but don't have to worry about finding their child's body in their trunk.

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What a crock of ***** It's obvious you love playing the tough guy role but you don't know *****

BenFiasco14 said:

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utah, get me two said:

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No doubt Dallas and houston have lots of blacks but they also have Hispanics and major Fortune 500 companies. Honestly I just want more big money to come to San Antonio so we can get a professional baseball team

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Businesses don't want to come to San Antonio because they're going to have to deal with corruption and red tape on par with Mexico.

They come to Austin because they get the progressive lip service but don't have to worry about finding their child's body in their trunk.

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SA gets call centers and the like. Asstin gets tech. All because of tu.

Californians want something "similar" to Cali. As much as most here like to believe, Austin is still not San Fran, Seattle, or Portland.

BenFiasco14 said:

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utah, get me two said:

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No doubt Dallas and houston have lots of blacks but they also have Hispanics and major Fortune 500 companies. Honestly I just want more big money to come to San Antonio so we can get a professional baseball team

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Businesses don't want to come to San Antonio because they're going to have to deal with corruption and red tape on par with Mexico.

They come to Austin because they get the progressive lip service but don't have to worry about finding their child's body in their trunk.

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lmao Wtf. I have never heard of cartel kidnappings and corruption like in Mexico are you high?

Elon isnt some hard core right wing guy. He moved out of CA because of the state tax policies and the regs on businesses.

Austin has a mess of tech savvy folks - it is billd as the "Silcon Valley of Texas". Dell has a huge facilty there and a lot of tech type companies are there - so the talent pool is deep for the types of folks he needs for his industries. Plus Austin offered massive tax breaks and they were doing everything they could to woo him at the time.

They know he isnt going to pack up and leave now, so they are trying to change th rules. Probably wouldnt have happened had the twitter deal not happened and Elon suddenly got labeled as some ultra right wing conservative, which he is not. He is a capitalist, but thats it.

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Elon isnt some hard core right wing guy. He moved out of CA because of the state tax policies and the regs on businesses.

Austin has a mess of tech savvy folks - it is billd as the "Silcon Valley of Texas". Dell has a huge facilty there and a lot of tech type companies are there - so the talent pool is deep for the types of folks he needs for his industries. Plus Austin offered massive tax breaks and they were doing everything they could to woo him at the time.

They know he isnt going to pack up and leave now, so they are trying to change th rules. Probably wouldnt have happened had the twitter deal not happened and Elon suddenly got labeled as some ultra right wing conservative, which he is not. He is a capitalist, but thats it.

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Austin drove Dell to Round Rock in the 90s.

When I say Austin, i am speaking of the entire area - Georgetown, RR, Pflugerville, Buda, etc. Its all pretty much the same.

Technically it's just out of COA control. It's in Travis County jurisdiction, not the City of Austin.

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Technically it's just out of COA control. It's in Travis County jurisdiction, not the City of Austin.

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It is in Austin's ETJ.

They are salty he revealed himself to be conservative, that is it.

The ETJ rules are a little more lax than the Full purpose rules. I work with the city's permit process often. We actually hire contractors that specialize in navigating it.

Austin may be run by loons but it is still in Texas as that's not bad for business.

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That building is YUUUUGE. I pass it on 130 a lot.

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It's bigger than HUGE.

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utah, get me two said:

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I'm more pissed nobody goes to San Antonio, it's always Austin

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It's because the entire town of San Antonio smells like piss

Most People don't like to be in places that smell like piss

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Asstin smells like **** and meth heads.

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It doesn't in Lakeway.

Wait until you see the Samsung Fab they're starting on up in Taylor. They built a huge pad of housing trailers so they can keep contractors working on site 24/7. It's a huge block of area, seems like a square mile.

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Wait until you see the Samsung Fab they're starting on up in Taylor. They built a huge pad of housing trailers so they can keep contractors working on site 24/7. It's a huge block of area, seems like a square mile.

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I've heard that. Huge deal for Taylor.