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Austin man offers Musk 100 free acres to move Twitter's HQ

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https://www.landwatch.com/val-verde-county-texas-undeveloped...

Cheapest 100 acres in Texas is about $50,000. Land is not a consideration for him.

I suspect Elon Musk burns $50,000/flight in his massive jet lol.

Seriously though, I wonder if it's a good idea to do it or not. It's a ton of land. He could build an amusement park on 100 acres. You could build a massive mall where the top floors are residential as high as you can go. In between are all the commercial space every needed, including twitter.

Flipside, it's not about that. It's about talent. You can build a massive building but you have to get people to move their lives there. People have family in the valley holding them there. It would be probably more political to do this.

there is plenty of tech talent outside of CA, most have been politically excluded.

Hopefully part of the plan to "unlock" twitter include harvesting some of this non-politically aligned with Silicon Valley talent that is out there

Nobody is being "politically excluded", they just don't want to live in SF or NYC.

While it is true some don't want to live in those locations (largely for political reasons). It is false to say companies that have a 98.7% political mono-culture like Twitter does has cultivated that ideological mono-culture by pure accident.

That's in the literal middle of nowhere, has no electricity, plumbing, or road infrastructure, and is miles away from any reasonable amount of civilization. At most, you can use that for pasturing.

Yes it's middle of nowhere. Hence being cheap. Electricity? Tesla Solar. Plumbing? How many millions, i mean peanuts, you think to build a entire water and waste system operating? How much money for roads? Somewhere between $42 and how much the water system costs.

Also the idea in the design is people are going to move to X company's HQ in tesla. Oh did I reveal something?

sounds like a terrible idea.

Do they have a homeless issue in Austin?

I’m sure it’s peanuts compared to San Francisco.

It's actually almost identical, if not worse.

There is an estimate of 3000 homeless people in Austin, compared to the 18000 in SF.

So 6 times worst.

What's the population density of Austin compared to San Francisco?

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