Yes, but the high desert of Oregon isn't known for being a major cargo transfer point.
...Political, also completely incorrect. Do you ever notice these people complaining never actually have specifics? It's always handwave 'politics' or 'taxes' without looking at any of the statistics that go along with these?
Why do you think that's a comeback? Those are tiny hills. A straight boring road. Like the Central Valley. Not mountains. Which is why I was saying someone living in the Central Valley might jump.West Texas is flat. Central Texas is not.
At least our hills aren't on fire.
Yes, HP and Trend Micro are dead companies, Toyota wasn't able to move their engineers, Oracle and Saleen haven't moved (Saleen is still reeling from losing its Chinese venture), CBRE and Charles Schwab aren't real companies so move their post box all the time, McKessen wasn't a California company to begin with... Nor did they close their SF office.
Oh, those central Texas hills burn. Most are covered in salt cedars which, once ignited, burn like gasoline. The city folks moving to the country neglect to trim the underbrush back from their homes, so there are occasional conflagrations.
"TxDOT plans to spend $7.5 billion to expand I-35 in Austin from the Williamson County line to Texas 45 South, with $4.9 billion dedicated toward building a combination of tunneled lanes, below-ground lanes, bypass lanes and high-occupancy vehicle lanes in Central Austin and downtown.Sep 1, 2021"
