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Tesla to move headquarters from Palo Alto to Austin

Original post made on Oct 8, 2021

Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla Inc., confirmed Thursday afternoon what many have long suspected: The electric vehicle and energy storage company plans to move its Palo Alto-based headquarters to Austin, Texas.

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Posted by Yonatan
a resident of Old Mountain View
on Oct 8, 2021 at 7:58 am

Yonatan is a registered user.

I would like to congratulate all of the NIMBYs!
You did it!
You made housing so expensive that people can't afford to live here and now companies are leaving!
Soon the Bay Area will be the retirement community that you hope it will be.


Posted by MyOpinion
a resident of Sylvan Park
on Oct 8, 2021 at 2:44 pm

MyOpinion is a registered user.

Yonatan - what’s your solution? Housing has ALWAYS been expensive in the bay area and prop 13 has made it even more so with backbreaking property tax. The NIMBY rant is pointless.


Posted by Randy Guelph
a resident of Cuernavaca
on Oct 8, 2021 at 4:01 pm

Randy Guelph is a registered user.

MyOpinion, are you suggesting that Prop 13 *increased* property taxes? The thing that locked in both the absolute property tax rate at a shockingly low percentage at the same time that it limited their growth rate to below inflation? Now this, I gotta hear.


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