So a more serious talk. As a corporation I can't see why anyone would willingly invest capital in Florida, when you have a government that is willing to pass legislation to punish companies at the whim of a governor. While Texas hasn't started down this road it is certainly a risk with politicians like Abbot.
There are plenty of examples of other state governments, blue ones included, that have legislation and regulations and state attorney generals targeting companies and entire industries. The federal government is at least as culpable.
Any large company invests in lobbyists in large part to try to (1) get warning of, and, if possible (2) block legislation that could hurt or kill their business. I would consider it irresponsible of the company owners not to do that, government risk has been a very real one since at least the Wickard vs. Filburn Supreme Court decision. Given the roughly 4000 new federal regulations approved every year, lobbyists obviously don't always win, nor should they.
Regarding Texas's poor infrastructure, which others have mentioned, I can tell you that NJ has some of the highest taxes in the country, and when hurricane Sandy hit, they were interviewing out of state utility workers helping fix the lines saying that NJ had the most obsolete electrical grid they had ever encountered. CA, of course, is famous for having electrical grid problems even during relatively normal summers. Less than a week separated legislation they passed to end sales of gas powered cars in favor of electric (speaking of targeting industries) and them issuing a notice that people shouldn't charge their electric cars during the day because they don't have enough electricity for even the small number on the road now. Nobody invests in infrastructure they way they should, unfortunately.
More on topic, I wonder if SpaceX can be considered somewhat like the Hewlett Packard of Silicon Valley? Certainly many people from SpaceX have moved on to high profile positions with other space companies, as happened with HP in the early days of Silicon Valley. That $350M investment may actually pay off long term.
