Thread regarding Chevron Corp. layoffs

Good for you @1gpy. Only that hanging in there for 31 years at Chevron is now near an impossible feat for the grand majority of us. We can only hope to survive a major layoff every 10 or so years.

I can’t care less if Chevron HQ stays or leaves California. I’m no longer working for the company or have any stake in it. Was laid off and decided to retire after 31 years with CVX. Doing very well and happy I’m forever out of the rat race. For the rest of you, carry on the best you can. Your turn at a good retirement will come someday.

Every location has pros and cons. Coastal California has the weather appeal. Texas has no state income and mild winter weather. Other places have similar appeal and again no place is perfect. At the end it comes to your social network, family conditions, specific location you are living [school, crime, commute, spouse job and family, children's priorities, etc]. If you cannot be happy where you are, then move but thinking that everyone will be happy at your location is just not realistic. For corporate headquarters, MW has made it clear that it would stay in California, unless business environment becomes so unfavorable [which is moving into that direction].

Gotta love the posts that people commonly do pumping up where they live that mostly only would appeal to tourists, or someone on a perpetual vacation, which is like, literally, none of us. If you are doing vacation-type list, why limit it to any single place? I can be anywhere on the planet when I am on vacation enjoying the outdoors, attractions, etc. I don't need to pay their taxes, high prices and deal with their homeless, wildfires and drought year-round though. Do the math. And that's not just CA people who do that.

40 million American disagree with you as that is how many find California a fabulous place to live with stunning scenic beauty.

California has the Golden Gate and GG Bridge. Texas has Galveston bay sludge pits and the horrific Galveston causeway.

California has stunning beaches, both rocky and sandy, with clean cool water. Texas has Galveston and Padre Island with coarse, dirty sand and bathtub water.

California is 52% public land including 11 amazing national parks (Yosemite) while Texas is 4% public with one dry national park in the middle of nowhere (BB).

One in five Houston children live below the poverty rate, nearly double Calif rates.

Houston has some of the worst weather in the country with horrific heat and humidity most of the year. California is sunny, cool and generally fabulous. Houston has the sixth worst air quality in the entire nation.

I could go on and on

I consider the Woodlands Houston also. What would one call it to a person outside Texas? And you're correct, the urban crime is a problem in all the urban areas, San Fran, Oakland, Houston, etc. I have no problem living in the "Houston metro" I guess you should say. I would not move to CA, but maybe others like it. It's not worth all the trouble that you have to deal with. I love the scenery outside of the urban areas, but I visit when I want, just like any other place that you wouldn't want to live permanently.

I have a buddy at Sunset Dev who has walked through Building A and found some surprises in the exec quarters. I’m trying to get him to take me along next time.

I don't know about you guys, but I never click on questionable links that people post. If you don't have the cajones to actually post what you want people to see, then it's not worthy of being seen. Anyone can surf the web for info and trash. No need to lazily repost things that you think are cool, etc. this is not grade school, fellas.

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Claiming Houston has “culture” is pure cope. It’s concrete and commuters. It’s so great most of you live an hour way.

I’m sure someone likes it, but I’ve yet to meet a colleague say anything above neutral about it.

For those who love Cali, you need to stay there. I moved to Houston and there is NO comparison. Yes, summers are hot. However, everything else is sooooo much better (ie people, culture, cost of living). My quality of life went dramatically up! I love Houston!!!

I don't know why anyone would make such a blatantly false generalization. I love Houston, relatively speaking especially living in the area I'm in, far enough away from the fray. I agree, everywhere has it's pluses and minuses, I have moved a few times, but Houston is no where near the worst, it's in the top 3 or 4 for me. You can't have everything, just like you said, you would never live in CA. It used to be a very nice place to vacation, but not so much these days. I am an independent/moderate, just like almost all of my Bay Area friends & associates, enough of the false stereotyping already. Now, out on the streets in SF that may be a vastly different far left demographic. That's not exactly a barometer for STEM talent, though.

@fav, you have that backwards. Most talented young folks want out of the Bay Area because the cost of living is soul crushing.

I know you conservatives are gonna hate this, but it’s a differentiator for talent. No one enjoys living in Houston. I’ve yet to meet a CVX employee who enjoys it. And it’s not like HOU is particularly close to the vast majority of work we do.

Problematic as CA is, and I wouldn’t never live there personally to be honest, there is appeal to a lot of people.

72 acres in Cypress/Bridgeland area of TX. It’s supposed to be for a lab, but there’s enough land for a campus as well.

You may seen a tiny clue about this when MW sold off the entire HQ campus and moved a skeleton staff into bland rented space a year or two ago.

Yep long overdue