Sure, I am not playing armchair rocket scientist, I claim no expertise. From my own experience: I drove to Bocca Chica three weeks ago and also took the fanta

Sure, I am not playing armchair rocket scientist, I claim no expertise. From my own experience: I drove to Bocca Chica three weeks ago and also took the fantastic helicopter tour from south padre, while it was awesome to get ridiculously close to the launchpad (walking behind the dunes gets you really up close) unlike at Vandenberg, KSC where you cannot get so close from public land this easily it definitely looked like an inconvenient site - roads are pretty narrow and don’t look to be that high load bearing for heavy traffic and are being worked on (it is single lane in part as they are still working on it piece by piece to strengthen them), it takes a while to go from Brownsville to Starbase - there is also a border checkpoint that takes a long time to cross during peak hours > 30 mins on the way back. - you can actually see the Mexico border (a light house) from the OLM, I was getting cell signal from Mexico. It is less than 10 miles, so close to the border comes with its own problems was my impression . - limited space to expand either Starbase and also at the launchpad. You can fly close only to starbase and it is quite visible from the air. I am no expert, these are just a tourist’s observations, however in 70 years of American rocketery smarter people than me private and public have done the research and rejected places like Bocca Chica before for good reason. Claiming that this is the perfect spot and no other feasible location and it is just that I don’t know(which I don’t) better seems a bit silly? People can make mistakes not every decision makes perfect sense in hindsight. It does not detract from the work they have been able to do so far.