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2020-06-30 Economy
I'm leaving Seattle for Texas so my employees can be free: Billion dollar business owner
[FoxBusiness] I’m moving my business headquarters off the West Coast. We tried San Francisco. We tried the Seattle area. Both were wonderful in their own ways, especially in natural beauty and personal friendships. But both have become hostile to the principles and policies that enable people to live abundantly in the broadest sense.

That’s why my company is in the final stages of purchasing office space in Austin, Texas. By the end of the year, I hope to move dozens of employees to the Lone Star State and to be ready to hire hundreds more. While uprooting a big part of a billion-dollar company isn’t easy, the decision to move to Texas wasn’t hard. Our staff and their families will be able to flourish to a much greater extent.

Leaving the West Coast might seem strange for a company focused on tech ventures and related investments. It’s true that the company has benefited greatly from the larger pool of forward thinkers and industry disrupters in the tech hot spots of San Francisco and Seattle. But the best places to be in tech have now become some of the worst places to raise a family, practice a faith, or even think freely. This hurts my team and the business.

These areas are culturally diverse but increasingly monolithic in terms of ideology. In the past few weeks, radical protesters took over a portion of Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood. The mood in the area was that this experiment in anarchy was acceptable and even praiseworthy. Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan even issued a statement commending the “First Amendment activities” of the occupiers.

Peter Rex is founder and CEO of Rex Teams, a tech, investment and real-estate firm.
Posted by Skidmark 2020-06-30 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ]  Top
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#1 yep, move to another leftist shithole in the making. Looks like he hasn't leaned his lesson yet.
Posted by Chris 2020-06-30 00:22||   2020-06-30 00:22|| Front Page Top

#2 Top comment in the wsj for this article was,"Dude, you are moving to Austin, not Texas."

Snark O'The Day
Posted by Penguin_of_the_Desert 2020-06-30 00:37||   2020-06-30 00:37|| Front Page Top

#3 For God's sake, leave the liberals there. We dont need any more of them ruining Texas the way they have ruined Colorado and California
Posted by Marilyn Tojo7566 2020-06-30 02:13||   2020-06-30 02:13|| Front Page Top

#4 The correct technical term is metastasis.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-06-30 03:30||   2020-06-30 03:30|| Front Page Top

#5 Maybe Army Futures Command is hiring.
Posted by Clem 2020-06-30 05:56||   2020-06-30 05:56|| Front Page Top

#6 ^Snark O'The Day

I'll go with this. There is truth in Penguin's comment. Even in Austin, the emigrees from Washington won't be welcomed with open arms (same with those from Silicon Valley). These people are making it difficult to find jobs and housing in Austin for people who have lived there for awhile. Prices/rents/housing are being driven up. Those who have lived in Austin for a long time are moving out to smaller communities 50-60 miles away where housing is affordable.
Posted by JohnQC 2020-06-30 14:46||   2020-06-30 14:46|| Front Page Top

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