It is no secret that Elon Musk is packing his California bags and moving to Texas. From parental rights infringements to taxes to drug users blocking the parking garage exit such that he can leave X in San Fran, he’s had it. Everyone to the exits.
Last month, Musk, who bought Twitter in 2022, announced on his social media platform he was making the move after Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA), a Democrat, signed a law banning schools from notifying parents if their child starts identifying as another gender than he or she was assigned to at birth.
“This is the final straw,” Musk said. “Because of this law and the many others that preceded it, attacking both families and companies, SpaceX will now move its HQ from Hawthorne, California, to Starbase, Texas.”
X (still pronounced ‘Twitter’) is moving its headquarters to Austin, Texas. X employees (Not ex but X) are being relocated outside of San Fran, leaving the city with another empty building, but they don’t seem too concerned.
“Elon Musk tweeted complaints about Mid-Market but never used his vast wealth to improve the situation,” Shaw wrote. “Much of the Twitter building was vacant despite Musk’s March 2023, 2:30am request that employees return (several rounds of layoffs left far fewer employees available to return).”
Shaw said Twitter’s departure “offers San Francisco a great opportunity” to seize the situation and renew focus on reviving Mid-Market and the famous Tenderloin district.
Randy Shaw is the “director of San Francisco’s Tenderloin Housing Clinic.” I don’t know what that is, but no amount of Musk Money could fix what’s wrong with San Francisco. The city budget is 15.9 billion, which is over $20,000.00 per person. Does anyone think the city is doing a better job with that money than, say, anyone who isn’t in government? And there’s no incentive to do any real good because that same government has to be involved in everything anyone tries to do.
The problems, as with every Liberal-run urban wasteland, are political and systemic, and backing sensible replacements would never amount to much in a city with decades of progressive poison in its veins. Besides, the Marxists running it into the ground know as well as anyone that utopia only rises after everything else is broken. Musk isn’t interested in his front-row seat, and his employees can’t be too pissed about escaping to a safer workspace. And maybe it frees up some local housing.
You can also warehouse the homeless and houseless in Twitter’s former Market Street digs. Much like NYC, post-Summer of Love and Lockdowns, office space is easy to come by and cheaper. But is it cheap enough? Will woke entrepreneurs jump at the chance to plant their headquarters in the middle of a drug and crime-infested San Francisco? They might for a while. But the overhead is high, and that’s the cost of doing business. The crime, drugs, and disease are another problem. Then there are the State-level burdens (all of) which you can avoid by not getting caught up on what the address might mean to certain people who don’t work for you and likely won’t be customers.
As for the City claiming Joy™
