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Austin man offers Musk 100 free acres to move Twitter's HQ
- Vladimof 4y agoDo they have a homeless issue in Austin?
- throw03172019 4y agoI’m sure it’s peanuts compared to San Francisco.
- pie42000 4y agoIt's actually almost identical, if not worse.
- impulser_ 4y agoThere is an estimate of 3000 homeless people in Austin, compared to the 18000 in SF. So 6 times worst.
- netizen-936824 4y agoWhat's the population density of Austin compared to San Francisco?
- incomingpain 4y agohttps://www.landwatch.com/val-verde-county-texas-undeveloped-land-for-sale/pid/407733780 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.
- syshum 4y agothere 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
- ss108 4y agoNobody is being "politically excluded", they just don't want to live in SF or NYC.
- syshum 4y agoWhile 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.
- missedthecue 4y agoThat'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.
- incomingpain 4y agoYes 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?
- stereocodes 4y agosounds like a terrible idea.