All right, Elon, we knew it was coming.
We knew the SpaceX would eventually move some operations,
more operations, regular operations, not just Star Base
and Starship operations down to the Brownsville area.
We knew that was going to happen.
The headquarters are being built there at Star Base.
We know that Brownsville is a place where SpaceX employees
already live. Now, this is a thing that's
happening right now, and I'm going to show you what I'm
talking about right now. And this is I don't even care
who posted this, it's Libs of TikTok.
Gavin Newsom aside, AB1955 today, which ban schools from
making rules requiring parental parental notification if a child
identifies as transgendered. Get your kids out of public
schools, Elon down here, double exclamation points and then some
garbage political stuff underneath that you don't even
don't care about. OK, right.
We care about Space Flight on this channel.
But this guy Jason at Jason says so.
The state is apparent in California now.
Gavin Newsom question mark. Elon says a lot of families and
companies will move out of California because of this law.
Who would want to risk the state taking away their kids?
OK, so that's Elon's reply. Do you think, how many people do
you think will move out of California because of this?
Families and companies will move out of California due to this?
I'm not sure. Eli doesn't know either.
So he's just talking smack. A lot of families and companies
a lot when they say a lot, there's just a general idea in
their head that like some people are going to move, right?
No matter whenever some somebody says like a lot of things are
going to happen or I heard from a guy, you know, you know,
that's what it's just a whatever, you know, it's, it's
their ideology. It's it's the way that they
think. A lot of families are going to
move, man, Dude, people are talking, people are saying a lot
of families are going to move. Now, I'm not shitting on Elon.
I'm not shitting on Elon. I just think that sometimes his
ideas and his ideals get in the way of companies.
So how does this affect SpaceX? You might ask yourself, why does
this? Why does this affect SpaceX?
And how is this the last straw? This is the last straw.
Because of this law and many others that preceded it
attacking both families and companies, SpaceX will now move
its HQ, its headquarters, from Hawthorne, CA to Starbase,
Texas. OK, so Elon also says right
below here he replies himself, I did not make it clear to
Governor Newsom about a year ago.
I did make it clear that laws of this nature wood forest families
and companies to leave California to protect their
children. OK, let's fix this microphone
while we're at it. Every astronaut says this mean
there will be no facilities in Hawthorne.
Does Falcon 9 Mission Control in production move dragon
production or what does moving actually look like?
Wonder if there will be a big population increase in the RGV.
Well, we don't know. We don't know what this looks
like. Elon hasn't said anything about
it. He just said he's moving
everybody out of California. He's moving in the company out
of California to Texas. So what we know right now, as of
right now, a few out like one hour since he posted this stuff,
is that some stuff is going to move to Texas.
And I'm going to tell you something.
I lived in Brownsville for almost a year, for about a year
and I came from a place that was, is a a nicely populated
small town, rural in the middle of nowhere.
And when I went to Brownsville, it's like 250,000 people, a
quarter million people. Not a big deal.
But if you're coming from LA, which has millions of people,
all the infrastructure you'll ever need, everything, shopping,
high end stuff, whatever you want, right?
You're not going to get the same stuff in Brownsville.
You're just not the place isn't up to par with anything close to
LA or any like there's the I mean, OK, so let me let me back
up. And I'm not shitting on
Brownsville either. I'm going to say Brownsville was
a really great city to live in when I live there.
Right in the people there were excellent.
The people were great and I love them all.
They were really great people in the RGV.
Really cool place. But it's no LA, man.
If you grew up in LA, you were accustomed to a certain kind of
lifestyle, something a little bit more high end, something
more, a little bit more polished than what you would get in
Brownsville. Brownsville is pretty rough,
man. Like here's an example I used to
go to, it's like a like a stadium, like a park kind of
place. And every morning I would go for
a walk before I went to Star base, I would go for a walk for
about 1/4 of a mile to in a mile, depending on the day and
how freaking hot it was because it's extremely hot in
Brownsville. That's another thing that people
don't understand. It's like 100 plus degrees.
It's different heat than in Los Angeles.
Brownsville heat is humid. Los Angeles heat, not as much.
But another thing is, man, the trail that I walked on, numerous
people got murdered on it over time.
I went for a walk in the morning one morning and then I heard on
the news later, some guy got stabbed on the trail like 20
minutes after I was there. Happens in LA too, right?
But you're really close to the border.
There's a lot of other activity going on down there, really
close to, you know, the Rio Grande.
There's, there's a lot of stuff going on in Brownsville making
it like one of the most dangerous cities in the country.
And LA, I mean, it's not as dangerous as Brownsville.
Brownsville is pretty sketchy. So that being said, a lot of
people that are familiar with LA in like the nice things of LA,
they're not going to leave. There's no way they're going to
leave. Elon says that like this law is
forcing people out. I don't think a lot of people
will leave because of this. I I mean, there might be a, a
little exodus, but dude, if you're going to take people to
Texas, take them to Austin, like that's closer to what people in
LA like, you know, it's a little bit more culture, a little bit
more upscale, a little bit more modern.
Like, dude, the downtown of Brownsville is charming as it
is. The place is from like the
1800s. It's it's like, it's nothing
like LA. So this is all about moving the
people, the right people, to the right place to do the right job.
Now, The thing is, they're probably not going to move
production facilities to Starbase right away.
They might eventually, but there's not a lot of room down
there. And SpaceX doesn't have permits
to build anymore that we know of because they'd have to build a
giant production facility for the Falcon 9 stuff.
Though Elon is thinking ahead, of course, that Falcon Nine will
be replaced by the Falcon, or not by the Falcon, by the
Starship. But will it all be replaced by
the Starship? The answer is maybe, eventually.
But why would they send a Starship to some sort of space
station like the Twenty 30s? You know is when we're going to
get new space stations, the other space station is going to
deorbit, and up until then the Falcon 9 needs to be a thing.
So even if Starship is fully operational by the time the
space station is deorbited, they're still going to use
Falcon 9 to send people to and from the space station.
Things like that. Certain orbits where you don't
need a giant Starship to launch your satellite or your cargo,
whatever it is, and a Falcon 9 does it for a fraction of the
cost and quicker turn around. You're just going to use a
Falcon 9. There's going to be an array.
It's kind of a quiver, right? Like you have a bunch of
different tools in your tool belt and a bunch of different
arrows in your quiver to choose from.
So SpaceX, if they move the facilities of Falcon 9 to
Brownsville, they're going to lose a lot of people.
Like Elon is saying that California's going to lose a lot
of people. If they move everything,
including production, to Brownsville, they're going to
lose a lot of people. And I know for a fact I have a
lot of friends in LA, lot of friends in that culture.
Nobody wants to move to Brownsville.
None of my friends. My friends went to Brownsville.
They're like, dude, we got the beach, we got the sun, we got
this cool lifestyle, all these fancy restaurants and stuff.
Like you have a certain kind of lifestyle.
You make a lot of money doing whatever you do, like the SpaceX
engineers. And then you say like, dude,
you're going to move to literally the middle of nowhere.
The closest town is like 30 minutes away.
And some people will like it, of course, but some people
definitely won't. Some people will be like, hey,
I'm going to stay in Lai. Don't know what you guys are
doing, but I'm going to find different job.
I'm going to go work at Blue Origin or something.
I don't know. Maybe they're going to, maybe
they're going to, we're going to tech start up.
I don't know. But The thing is Elon always
kind of lets his emotions go right.
So I don't want to crap on the guy.
He's he's got his problems, got his things going on and there
are people from both sides that are going to move and change and
whatever. But is it really, Is this the
last straw, Elon? Is this the last straw?
Let's see the last straw because of this law.
He's always so like, I don't know.
I don't know. There's something about Elon
that's just like, he's so dramatic, right?
He's so dramatic about everything.
This is the last straw. He's typing furiously as he's on
the toilet, pressing his thumbs as hard as you can into his
phone. Because of this law that many
others that preceded it, attacking both families and
companies, SpaceX will now move its HQ from Hawthorne, CA to
Starbase, Texas. Then he rent, you know, he does
a rant on X and then that's it. Then we all speculate about
what's going to happen. And then that's, you know, and
then we figure out like, oh, it's not that big of a deal
because there's going to be a few people that move from the HQ
to Starbase to do procedural stuff, to do work on the the
office stuff. Maybe not the engineers, maybe
not the people that actually make the Rockets or maybe not
the rocket facility. Maybe the people that keep the
people together. Maybe those are the people that
will be moving from Hawthorne to Texas.
But even those people, like your whole family's there, man.
Like you're going to uproot your whole family.
Like what if you grew up? What if you grew up in LA?
All these people grew up in LA, have generations of people
there. You have your grandma, grandpa,
you know, maybe great grandma, grandpa and your family, your
own personal family. Do you want your kid going to
school in another state? Some of them will.
Some of them like, dude, why would you move your family to
Brownsville for a job unless you're getting like a huge
raise? I mean that that could be a
thing too. Maybe Elon's like, hey, if you
moved to Brownsville, we're going to give you a raise.
I don't think you would do that because Elon's pretty, you know,
he's like, hey, if you don't want to work for me, that's
cool. Fine, see you later.
But I don't know. I'm, I'm kind of talking freely
here. So I want to know what you think
in the comments down below, of course.
And I want to know what you think about this.
I mean, this law is is controversial to say the least.
A lot of people are on either side are like, yeah, this is
great. And the other people are like,
yeah, this is the horrible. So I don't like I'm not in
California, so I don't really have an opinion on it.
And I wouldn't share that opinion with you anyway because
this is a Space Flight channel. But I can't share my opinion on
is Elon going wild again and moving everybody like he did
with Tesla, which probably a good move.
People like Austin, but do they like Brownsville?
I mean, unless they build Brownsville up like crazy.
Oh, man, I'm not just, I'm not shitting on Brownsville.
I'm just saying that like it's not the best city.
Like especially if you're from like San Diego or LA or
something like that. And like you got all the, they
got all the things. You're not going to move to the
middle of the fucking desert and like like a wetland desert, like
you're not going to do it. Like it's not.
It doesn't seem like a great place to raise a family either.
The crime rate. Let me see what the crime rate
is in Brownsville. I'm just ranting here, so please
bear with me. Crime rate Brownsville, TX and
Elon and company, like I've got to give them their credit,
right? The crime rate in Brownsville
probably went down since they moved there.
Since they moved everything there.
Let's see, safest Brownsville neighborhoods.
Let's see where was I compared to Yeah, Brownsville, TX.
It's OK, Let's see how dangerous is Brownsville, TX.
It's like super dangerous. Crime in Brownsville is
considerably higher than the national average across all
communities in America, from the largest to smallest.
Although at 21 crimes per 1000 residents, not among the
communities with the very highest crime rate.
Has a pretty high crime rate though, higher than the national
average. Would you want to do that?
OK, let's see. Let's Los Angeles.
How dangerous is Los Angeles? Los Angeles study place LA at #5
of the safest large cities in the US.
What, what top five? And I know there's stuff that
happens in LA, right? Like crazy stuff happens in LA
all the time. I was reported to be the theft
in LA. So theft is the most frequent
crime and violent crimes are reportedly on the decline.
So if you live in the LA area, it's like #5 safest place.
That's great. That's awesome.
You're not going to get much safer than that.
And Brownsville, TX, yeah. So it seems like 23 crimes per
1000 people. So yeah.
But it has a similarly, it has a lower rate of crime that's
similarly size metro areas. It's an 8.5 out of 10.
So the violent crime is higher than the national average.
It's rate of property crime was lower than the national rate.
Yeah. So it seems like Brownsville is
more violent than LA and LA is pretty safe.
So that's a little, I did a little look up for you.
So it also seems like Brownsville is cool.
Man, I love my time there. I'm not shitting on Brownsville,
just saying like the people that live in LA right now and they're
like, yo, I got it made. Like I can go to the beach in
the morning, could drive out to Big Bear and go snowboarding.
And then you know what, before, like after the sun goes down,
let's go to a skate park. Could do all three board sports
in one day. Not only that, there's
everything else you'd ever want in the LA area.
So if you're going to move from LA to Brownsville, I mean, and
I'm just saying this from like a personal perspective of the
people, not the engineers or not the engineering with the Rockets
and things like that. This is about the people because
at the end of the day, the Rockets don't make themselves.
And there's no way that Tesla bots and the optimist bots will
be making any rockets anytime soon.
So these people are what produce the real great rockets at
SpaceX. But it worked for Tesla.
That's an Austin though. So do you want it like, and it's
also like the gut, you know, the heart of the people that's in
this. If you want to get people to
Mars, like you got to do everything it takes, right?
And your family has to be on board with them.
Sensible questions, things like that.
Like you got to think about the the questions like what is your
family going to do? What if like when you go to
Brownsville, what are the schools like?
A lot of these people, you know, they might be young, but they
also have startup families, they have small families.
So how are the schools? What's the crime rate?
What's the infrastructure like? I know like dude, downtown
Brownsville was a mess when I was there.
It was a mess. The roads were garbage.
A lot of roads in Brownsville. I would, I'd have to drive
around a lot to film at Starbase and I had to go pick up
equipment and I have to, you know, I did other things too.
So I lived a life in Brownsville.
And tell you what, man, the infrastructure there not that
great. The roads kind of suck.
The roads down to Starbase, they're not as bad now, but they
were horrible when I was there. But the infrastructure could get
better if they bring in more people, more wealthy people that
are just going to complain that the infrastructure sucks.
They're driving the Tesla, they blow out a tire, they're going
to say they're going to talk to the mayor and be like, yo, fix
your roads. We don't pay all these, you
know, all, all the fees and things.
So you have crappy roads, but there's there's a lot to think
about if you're somebody that works at SpaceX right now and
like Eli just going like, all right, that's it.
We're we're moving. Like, come on, dude.
Can you really do that to like thousands of employees?
I guess Elon Kim, he can do whatever he wants.
He's the he's the guy privately owned company.
He can move it whenever he wants to.
Will people be happy? I don't know.
Will it, you know, will it be OK if SpaceX is going to be fine?
SpaceX is going to be fine. They'll find more engineers.
If the engineers don't want to move down there, they're going
to find more people in the office that just don't care and
they want to move to Brownsville or they want a new life.
So they moved to Brownsville. So it's up to it's up to the
people really. So let me know in the comments
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