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imagine the amount of jobs and actual infrostracture we could create with an actual government sponsored initiative rather than building our economy on a house of cards dependent on private monopolies to do the right thing for workers while we prop them up and waste the rest of our tax dollars on stupid shit
Don't worry, they'll claim they barely owe any property taxes because the building actually cost "$200", so they'll more than make their investment back.
This is up off Parmer actually. It's a fair bit North of the Domain.
The Apple campus is at least waaaaaaayyyyy in the North of Austin. It's supposedly right by the existing Apple office, which is located here.
https://www.google.com/maps/dir//Ap...52421ec4ac410c!2m2!1d-97.7359733!2d30.4324406
Right, but young apple employees are exactly the type of demographic that would go bar crawl and shop in the domain after work. And rent too.
Domain is a half mile south of parmer. Apple is mostly west, really a 5 minute drive outside of traffic.
They will average quite a bit more than that a year in wages and benefits for those 15k, so the building cost isn't that much. 67k per potential hire.
Yup.
I'm enjoying temporary property tax relief because Dr Horton built hundreds of 2000 sq ft houses overnight across the street. But they'll be snatched up in a few months and prices will continue to rise.
If you move here, the giant spiders will eat you.
That's right. There are giant spiders here. And they can tell if you're a newcomer. They find Californians the most delicious of them all.
Google Austin wolf spiders. These things are huge and often get into peope's houses, from what I've read.
Nationalize Apple. Fuck these big ass companies that do nothing but gentrify these cities EVEN further. Glad all you rubes property values are gonna go up. How cool for you.
I've accepted it. I work from home, get groceries on my lunch break, but anytime I have be somewhere at rush hour I'm reminded of how most people waste 10% of their time on the road.
By the time 183 and 130 work is done it'll be worse than before construction started. Austin is zoned poorly for highways, "loops" are north/south and are used by every single person regardless of the destination.
This has been my experience with Texas for as long as I can remember. :(
Business Insider tried to spin this as Apple doing the same thing as Amazon but with less anger and totally missed how the scenerios are totally different. Yes, Apple is getting tax breaks on this. No, Apple didn't turn it into a performative gesture in order to gain a plethora of knowledge on cities to use for leverage.
Austin traffic is embarrassing. City planners, politicians, engineers, and citizens should be ashamed.
Yeah I work from home now luckily.
And lol at "Californians".
Quoting as in referencing the concern over Californians being a popular answer, not air quoting Californians as a belittling thing.
But I do understand the fear. It isn't Californians per se but wealthy Californians gentrifying the area. There are downtown apartments that have gone up $1500/month since last year.
It's just funny because Austinites blame California for the transplants and the issues that come from it, and its just funny to see it out in the open like that. But as well all know, its not just Austin, but many other cities.
But truth to be told, many California feels the same about transplants.
