So, your kids are learning about creationism and that evolution is just a competing theory?

Anything in Texas sucks - especially bible banging, gun toting Plano. And when Texas is compared to California, the sucking of Texas increases exponentially. I’m surprised you even ask the question.

Yet, Texas does not have state income tax. So not sure how quickly Texas can make up the $40 million tax payer money to Toyota. I’ll join the hot-take here and lambaste Texas, and Perry, for corporate welfare.

Can I clock out of work, and be at a bar drinking an ice cold beer while watching the sunset over the pacific from my bar stool 15 minutes later? I can’t? Let’s apply at Honda right down the street.

Have you even been to Dallas? Our traffic is getting LA like, but there are some nice reasons to live here too.

Its zero sum thinking and yes its bad because it means Toyota pays less into the region by means of tax dollars by competing regions against each other.

It is if you are one of the 3000 new residents that were pretty happy with your living situation in California and the great job you had there with one of the biggest manufacturers in the world.

You know all these people moving there are going to want things like schools, roads, police, fire: The services those taxes are supposed to pay for.

If your company told you that you had to move from a place you like (California) to a place you likely don’t (Texas) yea, that would be considered bad. I wouldn’t move to Texas from Oregon under any circumstances.

For the employees, yep. Would you really move from beautiful LA to Plano of all places?

It seems to me that the decline of the single wage earner household will make corporate relocations increasingly difficult in the future. 25 years ago, if dad got transferred, it was just expected that the family dutifully trudged along. Today, when both spouses often make similar incomes, there’d be no point in…

This is virtually the exact same thing that happened when Nissan moved to Nashville several years ago. 25% attrition is about right. The other 75% suddenly realized that they could sell their cardboard box and cat food to someone in LA, then move to Brentwood, TN, and buy a 10,000 sf mansion with Al Gore and Carrie…

Sorry I’m gonna be that guy, Toyota was based in Torrance that’s the South Bay not West L.A., Right off the 405 on Western and 190th. 10 minutes from Redondo, Manhattan and Hermosa Beach 30 minutes from LAX, Downtown L.A. and Long Beach. So either that or you know Plano Texas. Home of JCPenney HQ.

And yet, over the period during which this move took place, California has all but erased the difference in employment rates between it and Texas.

Live on the west side of LA or in Plano Texas, tough choice....I remember talking to some recruiters at toyota and they told me that the job would be 3 years in CA and then go to texas and I noped immediately out of that.

Everyone has an opinion, mate. Mine is as follows: quite daft, this one.

Starting auction now for body parts I don’t need. One kidney up for sale now, start the bidding people.

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