Website for Companies Leaving California (Torrance, Orange: unemployment, public schools, income)

[native56]

California has its own website for companies leaving for greener pastures. Be sure to look at the link for the entire list. Some interesting stories on why companies leave.

Web site notes companies that left California - Jan Norman on Small Business : The Orange County Register

[Charles]

Originally Posted by native56

California has its own website for companies leaving for greener pastures. Be sure to look at the link for the entire list. Some interesting stories on why companies leave.

Web site notes companies that left California - Jan Norman on Small Business : The Orange County Register

Does the number of companies leaving California or does the rate at which they leave California correlate with unemployment? Or, are these not big contributors? Or, are the people leaving CA with those jobs?

I remember when Hughes Aircraft (now Raytheon) left Canoga Park for Tucson and those jobs left California. Lockheed used to be big in Burbank then I think they went to Denver and/or Georgia, maybe Texas, (I forgot) so those jobs disappeared.
My friend worked for Nissan in Torrance(?) and now he lives in Nashville so his job and he relocated.

[native56]

The website says that the equivalent of ten Toyota plants leave California each year. That's a lot of jobs. We should be attracting companies to California rather than sending them away.

[hsw]

Same issues as NYC region or Detroit or Cleveland or Phila or Bos...high taxes and anti-business ethos and crumbling infrastructure, poor public schools&services, despite abusive taxes and overpaid gvt workers

Any well-run company needs to maximize profits for its shareholders...and be based in a place that attracts talented, productive, well-paid workers

In a globalized, virtual era (ironically much of tech for this mobility was created in CA), many high-income (and low-income, low-skill) jobs can be done more efficiently in suburban Dallas than in suburban PaloAlto

Perhaps a few 1000 top engineers and execs "need" to live/work in PaloAlto area...doesn't economically justify the ~38MM people who now live in CA

And smart, hungry, esp younger workers figure out for selves whether they have skills to get a well-paying job in any region and can afford to live there comfortably...and make own choices: no one has a birth right nor is forced to live anywhere

Darwinian process...free markets will sort it out faster if welfare and government don't distort process to try to create a communist France out of CA and NYC (and MI, etc)

[Curmudgeon]

Originally Posted by native56

California has its own website for companies leaving for greener pastures. Be sure to look at the link for the entire list. Some interesting stories on why companies leave.

Web site notes companies that left California - Jan Norman on Small Business : The Orange County Register

Nothing about that surprised me. During the 12 years I worked in politics and legislation for the state I can't tell you how many times I heard those reasons and warnings expressed during committee hearings in the Senate and Assembly. The Business Roundtable, the Chamber of Commerce and others were constantly testifying, trying to stop what they considered job killing legislation from being passed. But the unions also got their say in the hearings and the Legislature consistantly sided with them. The state of the state's finances is the result.

[sunshine7793]

We don't need no stinkin businesses. Only need public transport to the nearest government office where they pass out the checks.

[Curmudgeon]

Originally Posted by sunshine7793

We don't need no stinkin businesses. Only need public transport to the nearest government office where they pass out the checks.

If that wasn't so true it would be hilarious.

[Fontucky]

Yes California, continue to bend over for the powerful unions and the enviroMENTAL nazis, and by all means, continue to accept the mentality of a sanctuary state. Morons.

[clongirl]

Originally Posted by Fontucky

Yes California, continue to bend over for the powerful unions and the enviroMENTAL nazis, and by all means, continue to accept the mentality of a sanctuary state. Morons.

Whatever your beliefs on this topic, I have to say I find it TERRIBLY offensive to diminish the true horrors of what real "Nazis" did (systematically murdering millions of human beings) by using it to describe people that believe in protecting California's environment/landscape.

[sunshine7793]

Germany in the 1930's was largely facist and so are intensions of the left in this country at present.