>And, I think, as a point of comparison, it's interesting that, in recent years, the California legislature handed the entertainment industry a large boost in tax credits for productions it kept in state (as opposed to competitors like Louisiana and Georgia).

What I always wonder is how Silicon Valley can have such an utterly monstrous cost of living problem, exacerbated by public policies that explicitly favor landowners and incumbent residents over scrappy young arrivals with new ideas and small budgets, and the tech industry doesn't just move somewhere cheaper out of sheer self-interest.