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Hmmmm, is this why Austin has had continuous surge in population (from immigration, anecedotly mostly from California) for past several years?

btw Austin is horrible, don't move here. ;)

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It’s unfortunate housing has gotten so expensive there too. You get more house for the money, but if you don’t want a 45-60’ commute in traffic, and you control for the much higher property taxes, the monthly payment required for housing isn’t that much cheaper than the Bay Area these days. To be fair if you don’t mind a long commute it’s a lot more affordable... but I really dislike commuting :/

As another person living in Austin, do you see our current pandemic increasing or decreasing immigration in the next couple years? I have a guess it will actually increase as companies shift to lower cost locations.

Increasing number of SV companies are getting comfy with remote working due to the pandemic. That’s likely to contribute to the exodus from CA as well.

I'm curious about the economic impact to CA if a lot of those jobs migrate out. But CA has plenty of other industries, so they'll be fine.

Those jobs aren’t going to other cities. They are going to other countries. The most affordable city is the US can’t even come close to the salary savings from moving to many of the well established outsourcing markets.

Remote work is incredibly popular with US companies. It’s called outsourcing and it’s about to get even more popular.

There was a comment about Paypal migrating some jobs over there. Don't know about their veracity.

Funny as I'm moving back to Round Rock, but as a remote worker. Housing is about to get more expensive I gather. :(

Moving to Austin in August after I finish my degree. Definitely feeling validated with my choice by this graph.

Curious what's so horrible about Austin, as I've thought about Texas as somewhere I might want to move sometime in the future.

Any chance you could elaborate a bit? Would appreciate the opinion of a local.

It sounds like sarcasm to me, suggesting that the only reason people would move is the salary ratio

I think it's the "This place is wonderful, you'd love it, but we don't want the whole world to move here and ruin it, so we say that it's terrible" schtick. I think the ;) in there was a hint...

Oops! Missed that. You're right. Thanks for pointing it out :)

Replying to myself since the edit window is gone:

Clearly I missed the sarcasm there. Would still love to hear a local's thoughts about why it's a good place to live!

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