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.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional%E2%80%93manager...
One may ask how many decades it takes for that to happen in the places all the imports are from.
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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.
That is factually inaccurate.
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.
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.