HOW WE GOT NISSAN: Seeds of move planted during California energy crunch

Nashville Tennessean ^ | 11/11/5 | RICHARD LAWSON and BUSH BERNARD

[SmithL]

As reported earlier this week, Nissan is moving its HQ from California to Tennessee. Here's what went on behind the scenes.

[SmithL]

We can't excerpt from the Tennessean, so here's the link:
http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051111/BUSINESS01/511110432

Read the article, there will be a quiz.

California lost out to Tennessee because:
(a) no state income tax,
(b) lower business costs,
(c) lower payroll costs
(d) lower overhead,
(e) the lights stayed on, or
(f) all of the above.

[KoRn]

Good for you guys. Why they setup shop in CA is a mystery to me anyway.

[sangoo]

People think California is kind of cool...until they've been there awhile.

[pbear8]

Wolfie have you seen this?

[Blood of Tyrants]

Not only that, but in Cali, $600,000 will get you a 1200 sq ft, 50 year old STARTER home. In Tennessee, I will get you a custom built 3500 sq ft house with a two car garage and a few acres to sit it on.

[ECM]

Half of us are only here for the weather...

[quantim]

And our MI Canuck guv with the highest unemployment in the nation has no clue where the jobs are.  This undesired north of the border import is barking in Japan to bring jobs to MI without knowing the jobs lost are to another state.

(G) Unions suck. 

Good for you in TN, looking to move there.

[Kimmers]

Hurrah for Tennesse.....this may open up more doors for you....wish that could happen here in Indiana

[bybybill]

What a joke. Imagine living in a place where guys actually hunt, where you know your neighbors and can talk to them in ENGLISH, where you don`t spend two hours a day parked on the freeway, where the military is honored, oh, I could go on forever, huh?

[staytrue]

Better weather, closer to japan, a huge population/customer base and most CA residents would not get caught dead in GM or Ford car.

[Publius6961]

Gee, this can't be true!
More Cheney lies!

We were told, very recently, not once, not twice but three times in lengthy and sober prose that, contrary to perceived impressions, businesses we not leaving California.
Some wet blankets pointed out that outdated data was being touted to "prove' the contention, but the MSM and the propagandists who are still pretending that California is not on the brink of bankrupcy, and that California State bonds are not just a tad better than junk bond status, and, of course, that a moroninc legislature unable to understand the concept of spend less than you take in...

What's the use? My tag line says it all.
When taxes skyrocket, our highways deteriorate further and the idiots realize why we got rid of Davis in the first place...

[ECM]

RE: your tagline.

Are you sure that # isn't a bit too high? ANd I say this knowing that 95% of my Cali friends can't eqal even 1/10th of a percentage point (my favorite was the one that voted the ballot measures down "because Arnold was backing them".)

[TexasTransplant]

Funny how that works,

Reward behavior you want
Punish behavior you don't want

(Except for the Tax Code, Federal State and Local Regulations, then Politicians only realize it when it's too late or when they want to lure it away from another Politician)

Hilarious

[glorgau]

Half of us are only here for the weather...

The weather gets boring after a while.

Wow, it's a low of 50 and a high of 70 again!

[Surtur]

Actually, most of us Tennesseans speak a variant subset of English called redneckonics. It's kinda like living in a Jeff Foxworthy show, but we like it like that. Glad to hear about Nissan's move. I hope they like things here. I read an interview with the Japanese head of Nippondenso's facility in Blount county a few years back, and he said that he found much in Eastern Tennessee to be similar to Japan and was very surprised to find many cultural similarities. When asked about his workers here, he spoke very highly of them. There are quite a few Japanese manufacturers located here in East Tennessee. Maybe word is getting back to Japan that we redneck good ole boys aren't so bad after all.

[ECM]

After looking at Florida and Louisiana, I'll take boring anyday, thanks :)

[Brad from Tennessee]

My next vehicle will be a Nissan.

[TexasTransplant]

Governor Perry are you watching?

(Governor Perry, trying his Damndest to make Texas the next California!)

TT

[Ursus arctos horribilis]

When the next big quaky shakey hits, update us on the boring gig.