They're Fleeing San Francisco...

X is moving out of the old Twitter headquarters in San Francisco and moving to Austin, Texas. And San Francisco seems like they're happy to be rid of Elon Musk, making some digs at how he's "ruined" the company. But it's not just X. A LOT of businesses are leaving the city by the Bay...

San Francisco is experiencing a mass exodus of people and companies due to high taxes, excessive costs, and crime, with Elon Musk and Twitter both leaving for Texas, causing the city to face an uncertain future.

00:00 Twitter and Elon Musk's X are leaving San Francisco for Texas due to clashes with California's leadership, causing the city to become unrecognizable as people and companies flee.

03:32 People and companies are fleeing San Francisco due to high taxes, excessive costs, and crime, with Elon Musk warning that legislation will force families and companies to leave to protect their children.

06:11 Twitter's political shift to the right, perpetuation of cancel culture, and Elon Musk's plans to turn Twitter headquarters into a homeless shelter.

10:04 Google, Facebook, and Twitter's power is cracking as they have to become sustainable, Twitter is heading in a positive direction, and a broken item may be converted into a homeless shelter.

12:56 Facebook feels dead and full of ads, with people not sharing like they used to, so they're focusing on the metaverse.

13:53 San Francisco is facing an uncertain future with a struggling economy, mass exodus, and empty buildings, as companies like Elon Musk's X are leaving the city.

16:40 Elon Musk blames San Francisco's business taxes and trans laws for moving Tesla's headquarters to Austin, while business owners are leaving due to high costs, not emotional reasons.

18:12 People are leaving San Francisco for Austin, Texas, a more liberal pocket within a conservative state.

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[TheKenthor]

As a native Texan, I can emphatically confirm that Austin is not Texas.

[lillianlayne-cotter]

I grew up in SF and seeing what has happened to it makes my blood boil. It was such a amazing experienced living there but around 8 years ago, my folks saw the writing on the wall and we left. Hearing about what’s been happening there - from the reduction of theft under 900 to a misdemeanor to the rampant use of leftist propaganda in the schools - is just so awful. It feels like SF is going to become another Detroit but in this instance the cause is purely manmade and entirely preventable.

[keithmichael]

I guarantee they won't be happy with him turning Twitter into a homeless shelter. They'll hate it

[LarsAwesome-conp]

twitter isn't far right now.. it's just not far left.. which makes everything else seem "far right"

[ignskeletons]

I used to live in California about 5 years ago and fled with my gf to Arizona and our quality of life has DRASTICALLY improved in almost every way

[carlosarambulo]

What happened to S.F.? They got what they voted for, social activist leadership and all that comes with it.

[mephistopheles]

Yeah Austin is little California. Definitely a stain on the state.

[hammertronactionfigures]

Interesting that the media does not want "taxes"to be mentioned.

That is the one issue that should unite EVERYONE.

[paulthetexan]

As a native Austinite, I had to leave my home city because of all the idiots moving there from outside who ruined a terrific city. It makes me sad.

[External]

The next Snake Plisken is escape from San Francisco.

[AL-wsyi]

San Francisco when I visited 20 years ago was beautiful. It’s sad to see what it’s become. Good luck, San Francisco.

[michaelhixson]

Turning Twitter's old HQ into a homeless shelter is such an ironic moment after how long it hosted the terminally online.

[jasonkovach]

I live in Houston, Texas. In the major Cities (Austin, Houston, Dallas) the government is mostly Democrat… state wide elections go Republican. So when someone says Houston has high crime in a Republican state, it’s disingenuous. It is a Republican state, but the city is Democrat.

[gregsteele]

Just last week the executive of a San Francisco charitable non-profit was arrested and charged in a $700K embezzlement scheme. Imagine that.

[gbalfour]

The people leaving Cali should stay, their voting and way of thinking is what made Cali what it is today; they leave and they take all that with them and just vote the same way they did there, and turn their new home into their old home.

[BonitoJoe]

A wise blue hedgehog from a hit 2001 game once said, "Follow me. Set me free. Trust me and we will escape from the city." I'm sure he knows a thing or too about escaping San Francisco-like cities.

[dkgong]

People on reddit are saying 'good riddance', not understanding this is making their local economy worse.

[pianomanhere]

San Francisco decided to ban cars in many major areas of the city, which reduced traffic and contributed to huge revenue losses for businesses. This dovetailed with the bold, open mob violence and thefts in so many stores, that businesses decided that remaining was no longer worth it. The major areas are mere shells of what they once were. I guess that the San Fran Board of Supervisors thought that they could force the public to use bicycles and to walk more. Instead, they created perverse incentives to leave the city. Also, if you disallow people from protecting their property and persons with the threat of imminent deadly force (i.e. guns), then you force them either to disobey the law, or to risk injury, violence, coercion and death. What a messed up state.

[cheeseburgersuperior]

when you're in demolition man timeline, you better leave.

[mr.melancholy]

Didn't Newsom throw a fit when he announced it? I wonder how many more companies will leave.