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Off the top of my head, two main points for why Austin is better-suited than Houston for a tech HQ:

- UT (@Austin) means a large pool of fresh grads from a top-10 CS program they can recruit.

- Existing presence of both Amazon itself and other tech companies (Google, FB, MS, etc) means they don't have to relocate workers, and it's a lot easier to convince SDEs from other companies to jump ship.

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I'm glad that NYT removed Austin from the list for mass transit / transportation reasons: the roads are full during rush hours. The only reason I make it is because I commute against traffic, and even that is becoming worse.

Plus the water situation when there's no hurricanes around to refill the lakes is fairly dire.

Nope, Austin's full.

Gay employees can't marry. That's all you need to say no.

Gay marriage has been legal in all 50 states for 2 years now

You're right. I'm a moron. However, I'd like to point out that Texas state gov't doesn't send a big "welcome" message of tolerance and inclusion to LGBTQ community.

Houston was the first city in the US to elect an openly lesbian mayor.

Even if that were true, why would that be relevant for deciding between two cities in the same state?

I'm an idiot cuz I forgot about the SC decision.

However, I meant it's relevant between Austin/Dallas and other cities nationally.

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