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Texas Attracted California Techies. Now It’s Losing Thousands of Them. (www.texasmonthly.com)

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The “Texas Miracle” loses some of its magic as Oracle announces it’s moving its new HQ out of Austin and Tesla lays off nearly 2,700 workers.

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[-] phoneymouse@lemmy.world 19 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Also, property tax is really high in Texas and unlike California, you aren’t shielded from spikes in property value greatly increasing your property tax burden.

I believe it’s to a degree that the average tax burden is actually higher in Texas than California.

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