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SpaceX To Shift Starship Work From California To Texas
SpaceX is reportedly shifting its work on prototypes of its next-gen "Starship" launch vehicle from Los Angeles to Texas. The news comes less than a week after the aerospace company announced its plans to lay off 10% of its 6,000-person workforce to tackle its more ambitious projects. An anonymous reader shares the report from Space.com: In a statement, SpaceX said it was now planning to build prototypes of its Starship vehicle, the upper stage of its next-generation reusable launch system, at its site in South Texas originally designed to serve as a launch site. An initial prototype version of that vehicle has been taking shape in recent weeks at the site in advance of 'hopper' tests that could begin in the next one to two months. A shift to South Texas, industry sources said, could be a way to reduce expenses, given the lower cost of living there versus the Los Angeles area. However, that region of Texas has a much smaller workforce, particularly in aerospace, compared to Southern California.
Yeah, when your workers need to make enough to buy a million dollar house that would go for $250k in Texas California seems pretty expensive doesn't it...
That reason is plenty of easily developed land, and policies which encourage home building instead of nimby horseshit that strangles home construction until even a hovel sells for a million dollars.
Alot of people don't have a successful startup or massive paycheck in their future. They need to live somewhere too...
That's what happens when liberals raise taxes, attack businesses, and generally fuck everything up... between anti business policy and sky high cost of living forcing wages to be artificially high, there's just no economic or business sense in staying in California, and it'll only worsen with Newsome.
The sad reality of US politics today is that I can read your text and still don't know if you're trolling or completely serious.
I'm in the Simi Valley and Thousand Oaks area of SoCal and when I travel to Texas I really can't tell the difference.
Same endless suburbia, same big-box retail, same dining options, so as far as "middle class" life is concerned, I see no difference.
-Oh yes, there's the hills and mountains, but nobody here ever goes on them, nor does anyone build on them and other than the occasional brush fire that brings them to everyone's attention for a brief while, they make no difference other than making the travel & commute shitty and concentrating housing into a fewer areas thus driving up costs of it.
So what's wrong again with "Texas" and why are we supposed to hate it?
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