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I'm not a Californian and I don't particularly want to live in the Bay Area, but I don't understand this reasoning: it doesn't matter how many reasons there are

I'm not a Californian and I don't particularly want to live in the Bay Area, but I don't understand this reasoning: it doesn't matter how many reasons there are to leave a particular state (of which there are always plenty) if the single biggest reason to stay remains in place. Specifically: the people who live in the SFBA live there because they want to live there, especially if they're still there after the last 3 years. Unless we're speculating that Musk plans to gut the entire company, it's very hard to sell hundreds of people on relocating across the country.

Tiktaalik 4y ago
Yea companies have trouble luring talent from the city just a short hop into near suburbs, let alone across the country.
pas 4y ago
Isn't that the assumption? Musk will just hire bootcamp grads and whoever sends him a funny meme, and that's it. It seems there's a sufficiently sized core team left even after all the resignations and firings. He keeps those for a while. They vet and train the new guys and gals. As long as the site is operational it'll be fine because of the network effects. (Mastodon is great but not really a threat. At least not yet. And maybe never.)