Not just SpaceX and Oracle, real estate giant leaving California: “There’s no better place to call home.”

Last summer Elon Musk announced that he was set to move both head offices of his SpaceX company along with social media platform X (formerly Twitter) to Texas.

The move follows a trend seeing a number of high profile companies swapping the Golden State for the Lone Star state.

Musk first announced that Hawthorne-based SpaceX would move to Texas, citing to his objection of a California state law that prohibits mandating teachers notify families about student gender identity changes. He later said X’s San Francisco headquarters would move to Austin (TX), adding that he “had enough of dodging gangs of violent drug addicts just to get in and out of the building.”

Another California exit

Estate agent Realtor.com, a subsidiary of Rupert Murdoch‘s News Corp, is the latest high profile company to confirm that it will uproot and leave it’s Santa Clara headquarters and open shop in Austin.

The state of Texas has waged a recent campaign on trying to lure major corporations to the area with its low taxes and limited regulation, also boasting of a lower cost of living, cheaper housing an a strong talent pool of employees.

Realtor becomes the latest high profile corporation to make the transition to the south central region of the US joining the likes of Chevron, Oracle, CBRE and Hewlett-Packard.

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