As someone who lived there for decades, it mainly has sunshine and is marginally less reactionary than other parts of Texas. But it also has crippling heat in the summer, very limited natural beauty and a multi month hell of cedar fever every year.
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Apple Breaks Ground on New $1 Billion Campus in Austin, Texas, Expected to Open in 2022
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So many whiners on so many Apple news.
Must be nice to live in a hate bubble.
Must be nice to live in a hate bubble.
It's mind boggling to think what those thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands of employees do every day
I don't know why Apple needs so many campuses, but if they do then they do...
All I hope is that the layers of management and the pyramid gets larger, I believe Steve once mentioned that the success they have reached was because of smaller teams being in control.
All I hope is that the layers of management and the pyramid gets larger, I believe Steve once mentioned that the success they have reached was because of smaller teams being in control.
Great news for Texas. You can thank Dell for making Austin a tech hub. When they opened their "factory" all the suppliers opened satellites there too. Houston had Compaq until those carpet baggers from the north sold them out to HP. At the time Compaq was the largest computer company by volume shipped. The factory also had vendor support locally. Well we can all thank Compaq for giving Apple Tim Cook, as he worked for Compaq before going to Apple.
How does one get a job to build the new Mac Pro in Austin? What is that position called and does anyone know how much they get paid? I wouldn't mind doing that.
People are complaining for a reason. Rent and real estate prices will go up. Traffic will get even worse. More people will be priced out, some of them will have to live on the streets. But yeah sure, great things will happen to "your city"
San Francisco is also much "more marvelous" than 20 years ago!...oh, wait.
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Well, then, they're in luck, because this campus is much closer to Cedar Park, Pflugerville and Round Rock than it is to downtown Austin. Traffic will be an issue in the area, but the city has already been repaving/resurfacing stretches of Parmer Lane near this development, and there is more roadwork scheduled there in the near future. Of course, being as this is Austin, I expect the city council to find the worst way to manage growth in the area
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Am I the only one who’s seeing this? It was literally the first thing I thought of:
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Good. Please don't move here.
Honestly, it's a great, great city. I'm so happy to live here. This is actually right down the street from my house.
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Apple has been in Austin since the early 1990s
The City of Austin needs to get better public transit b/c traffic in that city is beyond a nightmare and the public transit there completely unusable. Plus the community there is questionable I travel to Austin for business a couple of times a year and there are always messed up situations of doing business there. I would live in Texas no matter now much I got paid.
Austin has contingents of environmentalists and NIMBY's that need to be placated.
If you lived in Austin for decades and saw only very limited natural beauty, you didn't get enough.
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Campus looks basic, actually like a housing ghetto. Probably a lot of glass & shiny metal, just no space ship v2.
I assume you meant to write "didn't get out enough". I got out plenty and there are a few marginally interesting places on a small scale (Hamilton Pool, Pedernales Falls, Enchanted Rock). But I also spent a lot of my life visiting other places and seeing spectacular nature and eventually decided to move to one of those places.
If you think Austin competes in natural beauty, you don't get out (of Texas) enough.
Ignorance is bliss, I guess. I'll take my Texas sunshine over the dreary PNW any day.
Just please, NO $#!@ CEDARS!
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I lived there from 2009-2019. That last summer in 2018 was enough. We moved to the mountains and aren't looking back. It's made employment tough (many are hesitant to hire remote workers, and Apple simply does not do it), but it's been worth it.
I lived in Cedar Park, and that's not a bad commute to the new Apple campus, near Riata Trace and Parmer Lane, so long as you don't try it during rush hour. You can even bicycle it (and I would if I still lived there, and if I worked there). Bonus: Fry's Electronics near Parmer and Mopac, and a surfeit of good barbecue all over the city.