Posted on 12/01/2005 4:27:07 PM PST by Dan Nunn
When one little company like Nissan North America pulls out of a great big city like Los Angeles, does anyone even notice?
They do when Nissan is the 80th corporation to do so since 2002.
The automaker's announcement that it will leave L.A. for Nashville, Tenn., may have been the straw that broke the camel's back.
Just days after the announcement, the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corp. fired off a letter to California's legislators, urging them to appoint a task force to consider changes in state tax and employment laws to help reduce business costs.
The 80 departing corporations are taking 13,000 jobs with them, the group says. And in an alarming shift, it warns that the corporate departures no longer are moving just midlevel jobs; they are claiming headquarters and r&d jobs, too.
Por que ?
While we here in Tennessee boom, California fall down, go boom. ;-)
I don't think it's a simple as taxes. NYC has taxes out the wazoo and is booming.
Great. I hope the mass exodus continues. It has to get worse before it can get better.
The question, anymore, isn't "Why did [yet another company] LEAVE Los Angeles/California?"
Rather, the question is why more HAVEN'T -- or why ANY company that is able to relocate, does not do so. The only sensible reason to have any business presence in this state is because you cannot avoid being here in order to do your job, e.g., airlines, tourism, food sales, etc. But you can make cars anywhere.
Me too. There is way too many people here. If there is an exodus, I sure don't see it.
Si, por Que?
LOL, I'll bet Pravda on the Pacific picks up on this right away.
Taxes, cost of living and a decaying infrastructure have made L.A. a nightmare to live in. Well, at least compared to a lot of other places.
That's because the money generators are being replaced by the money sucking masses.
At the same time I can make a lot more in salary here in L.A. than I can in 95% of the rest of the country ... and never have to deal with snow.
I love L.A. and it's my hometown.
Well, I'm sure you can figure why. Those leaving to the north and east are getting replaced by those entering from the south. I hope to join the exodus soon.
Well, you may take a 50% pay cut moving away from LA, but your cost of living goes down by about 75%.
Don't forget that it costs a lot more to live in California too. Plus the congestion, illegal problem, high taxes, weirdos, liberal domination, etc....
And your standard of living goes down as well. I love the access to museums, the beach, the mountains, great restaurants and on and on.
I love it here and apparently a lot of other people do as well ... including many, many of my fellow Freepers.
I've factored that in. It's a price to pay admittedly ... but it's great here.
I was born in Glendale and will probably spend the rest of my life here. Still, L.A. has turned into an arm pit of a place to live.
Yes we make more than 95% of the nation, but we also pay higher housing that about 95% of the nation.
The freeways are a mess. State funds have been absconded for other purposes. Buildings with iron bars are a lot more plentiful and whenever some gang wants to add new members who have to proved their worth, we have to put up with peopls shot dead on freeways.
Yep, you can still make it to the beach and the mountains and the weather is pretty good for the most part. Still the beach only holds so much draw for me anymore. Driving to the mountains isn't all that much fun.
We put up a lot to live here, and I'm not convinced it's a better lifestyle that that experienced in the midwest. We keep telling ourselves it is, but I'm no longer convinced.
Nobody wants to live and work in the home of Tookie Williams.
I lived there over 40 years and that's not what I would call it.
I've been saying it for over 50 years. I love it and I hope all that don't like it ... just leave.
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