[SeekAndFind]

Forbes’ Best States for Business :

http://www.forbes.com/2009/09/23/best-states-for-business-beltway-best-states.html

FULL TABLE OF THE BEST STATES FOR BUSINESS :

http://www.forbes.com/2009/09/23/best-states-for-business-beltway-best-states_table.html

[Tallguy]

What percentage of the federal workforce lives in Virginia?

[2banana]

Amazingly - no one wants to live in democrat socialist cesspools...

[TheZMan]

Proof positive we are being invaded down here.

[rabscuttle385]

Great. Now I know why traffic keeps getting increasingly worse here in Northern Virginia.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

This is precisely what federalism is supposed to solve. The beauty of the Founders was that people can always vote with their feet when their state government becomes too oppressive.

Unfortunately, the people who escape these socialist hellholes try to implement the same socialist crap as before.

[SwedeBoy2]

How can Oregon Come in Tenth overall?

The city of Portland and Multnomah County are positively Hostile to any kind of Industry.

They keep raising the Taxes and driving family wage jobs out.

I guess they think we’ll all get rich flipping burgers and giving each other Lap Dances.

[P.O.E.]

Voting with one’s fleet, you might say.

[arthurus]

One reason for the difference in U-Haul pricing is that they need the trucks in the “bad” states. One way rentals leave them in the “good” states and they have to be transported back. The company is essentially paying renters to drive trucks back to the “bad” states. That is just one of the ways that supply&demand works out. If the traffic gets really heavy out of Michigan the price back to Michigan could conceivably even drop to $100. I can imagine U-Hauls lined up southbound on the Interstate out of Detroit.

[RegulatorCountry]

Federal government employees will vote Virginia straight into Michigan, given enough time. They’ve already turned the state purple in a decade or less.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

“...and second-to-last place Michigan, falling from 47th in 2008.”

Come on, Jenny! You can do worse than that! *SPIT*

[kalee]

Interesting.

[Professional Engineer]

Folks REALLY don’t want to go TO Detroit from Texas.

[EDINVA]

Frankly, I wish they’d keep their findings to themselves. VA has been inundated with VOTERS from those other places who are changing the area in a negative way. They maintain their same old voting patterns to our detriment.

[AZLiberty]

You can get a great deal on a U-Haul from Phoenix to LA.

[Vigilanteman]

Fargo is a very nice town, except for the harsh climate. On the other hand, the harsh climate is part of the reason it is such a nice town. As we used to say there, 40 below keeps out the riff-raff. We rented a U-Haul from California (LA area) to North Dakota (Fargo area) back when Mrs. Vigilanteman and I were married a quarter century ago.

At the time, California was a hot spot and North Dakota was shedding population, so we got a great rate. How times have changed!

[ThomasThomas]

When I moved to Forth Worth it was cheaper to drive the truck to Oklahoman just across the boarder and fly back to Dallas,