From another Bloomberg column this week: > I lived in Austin, Texas, in the mid-1980s when it was a comfortable town with a population under 300,000. During th

From another Bloomberg column this week: > I lived in Austin, Texas, in the mid-1980s when it was a comfortable town with a population under 300,000. During that same time, however, a college student named Michael Dell was building computers in his dorm room at the University of Texas. The success of Dell Computers — which now has its headquarters in nearby Round Rock, Texas — utterly changed the character of Austin. Austin’s population today is around 1 million, big tech companies are everywhere, traffic is unbearable, and entire neighborhoods have been razed to make way for high-rise office buildings. People who live in Austin bemoan what’s happened to their city. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-03-06/jaffray-woodriff-thinks-charlottesville-can-be-friendly-tech-hub https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-03-06/jaffra...