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At that time, Silicon valley didn’t exist and California was barely getting mass migration. About a century later, now even the car industry seems to move towar
by nemonemo 8y ago
At that time, Silicon valley didn’t exist and California was barely getting mass migration. About a century later, now even the car industry seems to move toward California..
- bischofs 8y agoDoesn't seem like a good thing to me, with the cost of real estate, energy and labor in California, building sprawling manufacturing plants for cars probably won't work. Plus the margins on building cars are very low at high volumes - not something SV is used to.
- Retric 8y agoCalifornia is huge and has plenty of cheap land as long as you don't need to live next to the ocean. Ex: ~1000$ an acre. https://www.landandfarm.com/property/Freeman_Ranch-7072064/ https://www.landandfarm.com/property/Freeman_Ranch-7072064/
- prklmn 8y agoCalifornia started getting gold rush migration far before the car industry started flourishing. Silicon Valley is now essentially the heart of the modern gold rush, but of course not everybody will be lured there.
- nemonemo 8y agoI'm not sure what's the point you're making with the gold rush migration, but most of the population to California came after Model T, and it was during and after the World Wars that California saw much of its population growth. Michigan had more population than California up until 1930s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_historical_population https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_histori... I believe the population growth has contributed to the growth of Silicon valley significantly. There seems some feedback loop between the population growth and the industry growth.