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Well, certainly SpaceX has done a lot for the city I call home, Hawthorne. It makes me happy when I hear their mission control cited as "Hawthorne Control."

We also now have the Boring Company test tunnel going in under 120th Street. Some of the people I work with joke about the tunnel cutting their commute from Hawthorne to El Segundo from 5 minutes to 2 minutes. (Of course this tunnel is just for testing, but it's still fun to joke about.)

Rockets have been made in and around LA for ages. It is a defense industry hub, arguably the biggest outside DC area. Overview: http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-socal-aerospace-201607...

Most of the job losses in that slide deck are from automating production and are never coming back -- SpaceX's manufacturing is as automated as you'd expect for their production volume.

Also, it's worth noting that SpaceX's Starlink folks are in the Seattle area.