True. But if Disney said they were going to move to another state every republican governor in the country would be trying to woo them.
Cha-ching! Money trumps everything.
That would be next impossible for Disney to do. When Walt bought the land in Florida, he had to do so under false company names and via cutouts to avoid running up the price. The instant Disney said they were moving, two things would happen - #1 immense speculation in areas Disney was looking at #2 protests to prevent Disney moving into the area (see Northern Virginia when it was still rural b/c of the "impact on traffic" etc).
Four out of five of the most visited theme parks in the US are Disney parks in Orlando (1,3,4,5 -#2 is Disneyland in California). Disney World Florida parks are 1, 6, 7, 8 most visited in the WORLD.
Magic Kingdom Florida by itself has almost as many visitors as Chimelong Ocean Kingdom China and Shanghai Disneyland in Shanghai, China combined....and China has over a billion people and is relatively cheap to travel to for the rest of Asia.
Disney World is the largest theme park resort in the world, and makes about $20 MILLION per DAY, nets about $17B per year.
In short - DW could threaten to leave Florida all the want to......it isn't going to happen.
True but it will cost Disney billions of dollars and would be a decade long project to recreate Disney World in another state. Disney’s best bet would be to stop playing political games and start focusing on entertainment.
Their property in Florida is only valuable as long as they keep drawing tourists to visit.