Like a Good Neighbor, State Farm Flees Illinois

Breitbart.com ^ | February 15, 2013 | Matthew Boyle

[InMemoriam]

Insurance chain State Farm is reportedly buying up substantial workspace in Texas, which may signal a coming exodus from the company's home state of Illinois.

State Farm is keeping the move quiet so as not to alarm employees. But the Dallas Morning News reports that it is a “major business relocation” already underway and that this is “one of the biggest stories in the Dallas-area real estate market and will ultimately involve thousands of workers.”

Texas-based real estate expert Bob Gibbons notes in a blog post that State Farm’s Dallas office space lease--about 2.5 million square feet of workspace in a few different places--is the Dallas area’s largest-ever office space lease by a single company.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported this week, too, that State Farm leased several hundred thousand more square feet of office space in Atlanta.

The company has 3.6 million square feet of office space in central Illinois and the spaces in Atlanta and Dallas easily total that amount...

[InMemoriam]

The poison of Chicago politics kills another otherwise healthy downstate economy.

[Yosemitest]

"... the Illinois Legislature passed a 67% hike in its corporate and personal income tax.
The state is struggling with a structural deficit and its credit rating was recently lowered.
The state now has the worst credit rating in the country. "

I don't blame them.
Screw Illinois!
If you want something destroyed, just vote the Democrats in, and they will destroy it!

[MestaMachine]

Chicago will be Detroit soon. Maybe worse.

[No One Special]

Oh oh, outsourcing.

[Yosemitest]

The people of that stated should kill the criminals, including the ones who supported and committed voter fraud.

[DeaconRed]

I don’t blame them but I don’t like them. As a property adjuster I call them SNAKE FARM. Allstate is ALL SNAKE. They both screw their policy holders when they have a claim.

[AlexW]

Companies will not just flee Illinois.
They will be fleeing the USSA...The Obamination.

[exnavy]

Case in point, Detroit Michigan.

[Average Al]

Head ‘emup. Move ‘emout. Keep those jobs a movin........
IL the proud state of Obama.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

It’s in a death spiral that can only end in Chicago becoming the next Detroit.

[Vaquero]

As a property adjuster I call them SNAKE FARM. Allstate is ALL SNAKE. They both screw their policy holders when they have a claim.

had Allstate for over 30 years....car and home...had claims on both house and cars.

they pay everytime and never raised my rates after an accident or a house claim.

are you an adjuster for the OTHER GUY? if that is the problem that your guy does not get what it wants from Allstate, I say GOOD!

[virgil]

State Farm is headquartered in Bloomington IL and is the largest private sector employer in IL. This would hurt the more rural downstate economy, especially. Those are red counties, too. Well, maybe people in Bloominton-Normal will appreciate the university there a little more.

[Conspiracy Guy]

I’ve had State Farm for 40 years. Cars, homes, boats. I’ve had claims on everything but the boats and never had an once of trouble. After a wind storm in Dec 2010 they replaced my roof while neighbors with other insurers could only get patch repairs. I have no complaints with them.

[motor_racer]

Trouble is, the low information voters will never blame their own voting preferences and leave the unsuccessful states taking their liberal attitudes with them to foul another nest.

[Conspiracy Guy]

once = ounce.

[Yosemitest]

Just like a pet that craps in the house, you have to rub their noses in it!

Tell them or show them a print of the article above.

"... the Illinois Legislature passed a 67% hike in its corporate and personal income tax.
The state is struggling with a structural deficit and its credit rating was recently lowered.
The state now has the worst credit rating in the country.
... The state government, however, is now completely controlled by Democratic Party supermajorities.
Gov. Pat Quinn and public sector unions have been pushing for a progressive income tax.
This will allow the Democrats to push through tax increases on certain classes of taxpayers.
At some point, the wealthy will leave. And, like a good neighbor, ..."

State Farm Insurance is LEADING THE WAY >>>>OUT !
Screw Illinois !
Let 'em rot in HELL !

[harpu]

"As a property adjuster I call them SNAKE FARM. Allstate is ALL SNAKE. They both screw their policy holders when they have a claim."

Relevance?!?

[Yosemitest]

It remind me of this:

... because their tongue and their doings are against the LORD,
to provoke the eyes of his glory.
The shew of their countenance doth witness against them;
and they DECLARE their sin as Sodom, they hide it NOT.
Woe unto their soul!
For THEY have rewarded EVIL unto themselves.

Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him:
for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.

Woe unto the wicked!
It shall be ill with him:
for the reward of his hands shall be given him.

As for my people,
children are their oppressors,
and women rule over them.
O my people,
they which lead thee cause thee to err,
and destroy the way of thy paths.

... for ye have eaten up the vineyard;
the spoil of the poor is in your houses.
What mean ye
that ye beat my people to pieces,
and grind the faces of the poor?

[Yosemitest]

It's called "BUSINESS", and it used to be "A FREE COUNTRY" !
State Farm Insurance doesn't have to put up with this COMMUNIST crap !

[Peet]

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