> Rather odd choice of Texas cities in my opinion. If you're going to go with Texas, I'd think Dallas and Austin are more obvious choices for technical people.

> Rather odd choice of Texas cities in my opinion. If you're going to go with Texas, I'd think Dallas and Austin are more obvious choices for technical people. Why? Dallas is too expensive, and imho the only good thing about Dallas is the Stars and Mark Cuban. Austin is good but also small and saturated but also Austin is 2.5 hours away from Houston and 1 hour from San Antonio, so it's not hard to poach talent if needed. San Antonio has a similar military–industrial complex to SV with it being a major area for bases for the Air Force. It also has the infrastructure scaffold from when ATT was headquartered there. They've got 5-6 F500s headquartered there. So, there's plenty of engineering talent for all types. Houston is #2 in the USA for F500 HQs following NYC with 19 based here. [0] Houston is massive, 11k sq miles for the metro area. There is plenty of space and Cost of Living is low. You have a major DOD/NASA source of engineering talent plus all the F500s. You've also got massive medial research with the largest medical center in the world while UTMB-Galveston runs one of the most important labs in the country for biocon. It's a major shipping port(s) and the port of Houston is #2 in trade. However, I will yield that the traffic sucks and parts are worst than LA; It's very hot during the summers, particularly August; and, that hurricanes suck. We also don't have earthquakes. Overall with Texas is you've got the Texas Triangle, it's also a safe bet infrastructure wise because the state has it's own power grid. There's tons of link points for data/bandwith. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_companies_in_Houston https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_companies_in_Houston