Posted on 09/26/2010 8:34:10 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Irvine consultant Joe Vranich, who has been compiling a list of companies leaving California because of the state’s anti-business environment, is now up to 144 companies that have departed in 2010, including 34 in Orange County.
In addition, he lists 51 companies (8 from Orange County) that left in 2009. That three-fold increase, Vranich says, is the tip of the iceberg that is California’s financial woes.
“Quite clearly, the exodus of businesses out of California continues. It makes sense for companies to reduce their California footprint considering the ample supply of attractive, lower-cost alternative locations. Unless California reduces its hostility toward business, we will see more commercial enterprises seeking friendlier locations in which to relocate entirely or at least place facilities there that used to be located here.”
Among the Orange County companies new to his list are Boeing, Kennametal Inc., Latex International, Multi-Fineline Elextronix Inc., NGK Spark Plug Co., Pipeline Software Inc., Smith Micro Software Inc. and Witt Heat Transfer Products Group, most of which have been previously reported by the Register. Vranich says Orange County may be over-represented on his list because news reports are one source of his information and the Register reports business comings and goings more than some publications.
Vranich doesn’t include in his list every company that opens a facility elsewhere. Here’s how he explains:
“I’ve excluded countless companies that are attempting to serve new territories or new customers, are expanding because the company is growing, or are acquiring companies located elsewhere. When events appear unrelated to California’s hostile business environment, I give the companies the benefit of the doubt and leave them off the list.
Which locations are benefiting from California’s exodus? Vranich says in a Fox&Hounds article:
(Excerpt) Read more at jan.ocregister.com ...
I went to Texas a few times on business. The weather was hellish and uninhabitable...They said I’d get used to it...I told um I wouldn’t be there that long...
Good news!
The more liberals that leave California, the better!
yeah if you like that sort of thing
snow is FUN
Fun like a broken tooth with the nerve dangling in ice water....
Living and working in snow sucks...Period...End of story...Only a fool and liar would fail to admit that.
The only ice I ever want to see is in my Margarita...
Airplanes get me to places like, Kitzbheul, Park City and so on. My idea of fun in New York is Watkins Glen.
The Finger Lakes region is great in the spring and fall but it hotter than blazes in summer. I think the hootest race I ever did was the Grand Am 6 hour in June in 2003.
Take care FRiend. I’ll check back in January. :)
That's what happened at the Geysers. Ninety geologists were hired to evaluate the steam potential. Only two wrote that there wasn't enough for what they were proposing. One of those two geologists wrote a book about the whole fiasco.
Governor Jerry Brown's many splendored things: The rise & fall of the California Department of Water Resources' $600 million geothermal energy program for the State Water Project 1976-1991 R.I.P — By Eugene H BoudreauBoudreau chronicles the corruption and incompetance that cost Cal taxpayers a fortune. NO ONE WAS EVER HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS. Gov. Moonbeam, least of all. Now this idiot is campaigning on reviving California's economy by promoting "Green Industry." God help us. Are Californian's THAT stupid? to fall for this crap, again? Abetted by the media and the Kelptocrats in charge, California sheep are once again being led to slaughter.
True, but they're not coming here in droves. The core businesses, and the jobs they generate, are.
I replied immediately and truthfully that I would quit the Company before I would let them transfer me there at any salary they could reasonably offer.
You should reconsider. Take the job and then file a workmen’s comp claim like everyone else does here in Calif.
Cary interesting. My family is from Wake County. My grandparents used to own a few acres and a home in Zebulon. They sold it before they passed away and now all the area that used to be country is now development. Pharma country instead of tobacco road.
Very true about Santa Fe. The Hollywood type are like locust. Whatever is the “hot” chic” place for the moment, they move to which causes real estate and cost of living to go through the roof. Then when that area isn’t chic anymore they move on leaving a destroyed shell behind.
Whenevr the liberals “claim” an area as an artists colony, destruction follows. Whether it be what has happened to Santa Fe or being overrun by tourists. It brings to mind Talkeetna, Alaska an “artists” colony north of Anchorage that is overrun with tourists heading to or from Denali. The weather and cost of living are probably the only thing preventing it from suffering a fate similar to Santa Fe.
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