I am not local to redmond. But isn’t that town just dominated by Microsoft? And aren’t they going back to office regardless of what some town council member says one way or the other?
Used to be, not so much now I don't think. Of my neighbors within a few houses of me: one Google (used to be MSFT), one Facebook, one game studio (who's games you might have heard of), Microsoft neighbors one house over, my Microsoft spouse, and me working at a small hardware company. But that's just anecdotal, and even if it's accurate, it's still a town that largely thinks of itself as a "Microsoft town" AFAICT. (Aside: good $DEITY, maybe my neighbors don't all work at Microsoft, but do any of them not work in software?)
But you're on the right track, as I thought perhaps it was just an easy nod to the largest employer in town, and maybe it is. But the statement was so logically asinine that I'm not exactly sure what his intent was.
