They should be moving to a lower tax state with a sounder financial situation. Any where in crook county is a bad choice. Boeing also made a bad choice. They should have moved to Texas.
If I were a shareholder, I’d be having a kitten right now...
Are they moving to one of the outlying, less liberal counties around Chicago? Both the South and Midwest are heavily agricultural, but the Midwest is primarily focused on grain production, whereas Southern agriculture has cotton and peanuts as principal crops, with corn the main grain crop, focused largely on cattle feed. Rice and sugar cane have importance in Louisiana and coastal Texas. John Deere equipment services all these crops, but the focus on grain in the Corn Belt and the Wheat Belt make the company’s continuation in the Midwest important. Nothing wrong with, say, Fort Worth or San Antonio, and taxes are lower there, but John Deere has to go where the primary customer base is.