OT: Moonbeam Strikes Again

A 3% increase in (some tax?) doesn't sound like a lot of dollars, against moving an entire company.

Santa Barbara is high-rent. That's where big-buck CEOs go to retire and play golf.

The ski areas aren't very good in Texas. They do have lots of great air conditioners and bug killing machines.

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John Larkin         Highland Technology, Inc 
picosecond timing   precision measurement  

jlarkin att highlandtechnology dott com 
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It's terrible the way Socialism has utterly destroyed once great states like California. When will they *ever* learn?

We're going to move our company.... maybe a couple of miles away. All our views are being blocked by high-rise apartment and condo developments.

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John Larkin         Highland Technology, Inc 
picosecond timing   precision measurement  

jlarkin att highlandtechnology dott com 
http://www.highlandtechnology.com

Watch them all vote for Sanders... them bad ol' 1-percenters will pay for it all, don't you know >:-} ...Jim Thompson

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I love to cook with wine.     Sometimes I even put it in the food.

I expect the other 40 million Californians will be leaving the state any day too. Who would want to live in that waste land?

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Rick

'Austin is known as an enclave of liberal politics in a generally conservat ive state--so much so, that the city is sometimes sarcastically called the "People's Republic of Austin" by residents of other parts of Texas, and con servatives in the Texas Legislature."

The 2012 election results were 60% Obama to 36% for the asshole crook Romne y.

Looks like someone just made a fool of himself......again.

No state income tax can give most of the employees close to a 10% raise. Add to that lower cost of living. Austin has a vibrant nightlife and music scene. There is hiking, camping, water sports. South by South West music festival every year and Forumla One. There is high tech everywhere and UT Austin is opening a new medical school. The Austin airport is a breeze to fly out of.

You can be on the Gulf in maybe a 3 hour drive but we are far enough away that hurricanes are not any real issue. A couple of hours up the road you have SpaceX in Waco. Blue Origin has their test facilities out by Van Horn.

What I like best is you get into El Paso and Dallas is still 635 miles down the road. Houston is 745 miles.

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Chisolm 
Republic of Texas

I've been there; my older daughter lived in and got her PhD and got married in Austin, but has since moved to California. The wedding was nice, outdoors, but we all got eaten by the bugs.

San Francisco is zero miles from here! [1] You can be on Ocean Beach in 20 minutes. And Truckee is 190 miles away, 3 hours if you time it right. Different tastes for different folk.

[1] What Google Earth thinks is "San Francisco" is in the middle of the Market/VanNess intersection, about 600 feet from here. You can see our building in the default view.

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John Larkin         Highland Technology, Inc 
picosecond timing   precision measurement  

jlarkin att highlandtechnology dott com 
http://www.highlandtechnology.com

What Sanders wants to spend will have to soak at least the top 10% of the i ncome distribution, who pay half the income tax. In fact it would probably raise taxes for everybody, though the bottom 50% would probably get more in terms of benefits than they'd loose in extra taxes.

It's the Scandinavian/German model - take more in taxes to pay for better h ealth care, better welfare, and better training and education, particularly for the less well-off.

What our resident right-wing nitwits don't want to believe is that it pays off for everybody - particularly the employing classes - because a healthy, well-trained and flexible work force is more productive than one which is being short-changed. It takes a while to get there, because you can't make people healthier and better trained overnight, but somebody younger than Ji m might live long enough to see it pay off.

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Bill Sloman, Sydney

Californicans are trapped by their con-politic.

Amusing how they defend such a socialist life style... that's all they can do... defend... they're losers.

I like Texas... and Texans... they know how to enjoy a life that doesn't include kissing the government's ass.

I remember the first Thanksgiving where we went to the father's-in-law place in Houston.

I sent the wife and the two daughters (this was 1964... more children to come :-) ahead via air... I drove a few days later after I wrapped up some project details.

I drove... relieved when I reached El Paso... I'm in Texas... my ass... 745 miles yet to go ;-)

Funny in a way how some of my family gravitated to Texas. The Godwin (mother's side) grandparents ended up in Harker Heights. My uncle, Darl Godwin, 20 years Navy, 20 years Army, ended up as Sheriff of Killeen... when I kidded I'd drive my 280-Z thru there at 100MPH, he said, "Don't! They'll shoot you" ;-) ...Jim Thompson

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| James E.Thompson                                 |    mens     | 
| Analog Innovations                               |     et      | 
| Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems  |    manus    | 
| San Tan Valley, AZ 85142     Skype: skypeanalog  |             | 
| Voice:(480)460-2350  Fax: Available upon request |  Brass Rat  | 
| E-mail Icon at http://www.analog-innovations.com |    1962     | 
              
I love to cook with wine.     Sometimes I even put it in the food.