Austin is already on the path of SV.

Perhaps you can keep Austin a containment zone for SF outcasts and the rest of Texas will be left alone.

City folk usually aren't fond of sprawling rural areas, so you have that going for you.

That depends on how you figure. Do you mean socially? Legally? Business-wise? There are a lot of complex forces at play to make Silicon Valley the way it is (including history). I don’t think it’s fair to tell any group not to “make” some city like their previous one. Furthermore, one nice thing about the American melting pot is everyone gets a voice. If enough people move to Texas and change its culture, that’s just something you have to deal with (or move, I suppose).

Lol, Oregon is full?

there are only about 4 million people in the entire state of Oregon. that's less than half the population of Los Angeles County alone.

and Oregon covers an area approximately 25 times as large as Los Angeles County.

Can confirm. I drove through eastern Oregon last summer. I also got killed. Twice. Then I took the CA plates off the car.

It's a horrible place; stay out.

That would make its way to the Supreme Court well before that, don’t worry. Then it’ll either be legal everywhere or illegal everywhere. #federalism

I went to Ft.Worth downtown few years ago, there is this place called.. Hell's Half-acre https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell%27s_Half_Acre_(Fort_Worth...

I would not be surprised Texas to have legal gambling and liberal MJ laws in the next 20 years.