JD80
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I'm sorry what?
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I'm sorry what?
Kamikaze
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How many 'newish business sectors' do you think get created?
And name these tech companies that have been moving out of CA. Excluding Muskrat's companies.
JD80
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The tech industry has been there in it's current form for more than a quarter century and has it's roots much longer than that.
Kamikaze
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That wasn't what I asked.
lazyboy97o
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The Rust Belt had industries that existed for decades until they didn’t…
Vegas Disney Fan
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Apple, Oracle, Google… they aren’t leaving entirely but many tech companies have been shifting to places like Austin, Seattle, etc for years.
JD80
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Sorry I was confusing, but I'm mostly posting that him calling the tech sector "newish" is laughable.
Or that the government of California over the last decade or so has had nothing to do with it's growth in the same time frame.
Sirwalterraleigh
Premium Member
He has a bigger ego…to be honest
That’s the “air” of things comparing the two.
I just think he values his own importance based on how recognizable he is…which is a classic nars trait.
That would lead to politics for sure. But I don’t think he seriously thinks it…73 or whatever is a hard place to start at that…like 99.999% of the time
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Sirwalterraleigh
Premium Member
Here I fully agree with you…
The propagated myth that California is “dying” is straight off cable news and not on a center line.
Massive problems?…yes…but it’s still worth about what 30 other states are combined and that sticks with people for some
Reason?
Maybe it’s The Beach Boys
Kamikaze
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Just because they also have facilities elsewhere doesn't mean they're leaving.
Vegas Disney Fan
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I view CA exactly the same as I view Disney, a place I used to love that I’d like to see return to its glory days, San Francisco was my go to vacation from the early 2000s to the early 2010s, my best friend from high school moved there and we used to have a blast barhopping at night and I’d wander alone all over the Presidio area, Marina area, Fisherman’s Wharf, etc while he was at work, that changed in the early teens when I started feeling unsafe walking around the city because the formerly beautiful and peaceful parks were full of tents and homeless people, I haven’t been back since probably 2015, my friend still works in SF but moved to San Rafael a decade ago when he started his family and even he says he doesn’t go into the city unless he has to.
I started visiting LA, mostly OC and DL, around 2012 and loved that I could stay at a nearby hotel and wander around the DL area or the beaches alone and feel totally safe, that noticeably changed after Covid where even going to DL from the nearby Hilton often meant stepping over homeless people to get to the park, I think the final straw for us was when we went to the nearby Target a few years ago, because we forgot out toiletries bag, and had to have an employee open the glass cases so we could get toothpaste and deodorant… I couldn’t believe a block away from Disney they had to lock everything up due to theft.
My last CA escape is still San Diego and even that is getting a bit sketchy, we love the gaslamp district but the last couple vacations we’ve been harassed by homeless people for change and or food.
Maybe that’s normal to many but to someone who’s not used to it it makes for a horrible vacation. CA used to be this amazing place to visit, now it’s pretty sketchy everywhere we go, I just want CA to return to what it was 15-20 years ago. It’s a beautiful state full of many wonders but we find the cons outweigh the pros now and we go less and less with each passing year.
I started visiting LA, mostly OC and DL, around 2012 and loved that I could stay at a nearby hotel and wander around the DL area or the beaches alone and feel totally safe, that noticeably changed after Covid where even going to DL from the nearby Hilton often meant stepping over homeless people to get to the park, I think the final straw for us was when we went to the nearby Target a few years ago, because we forgot out toiletries bag, and had to have an employee open the glass cases so we could get toothpaste and deodorant… I couldn’t believe a block away from Disney they had to lock everything up due to theft.
My last CA escape is still San Diego and even that is getting a bit sketchy, we love the gaslamp district but the last couple vacations we’ve been harassed by homeless people for change and or food.
Maybe that’s normal to many but to someone who’s not used to it it makes for a horrible vacation. CA used to be this amazing place to visit, now it’s pretty sketchy everywhere we go, I just want CA to return to what it was 15-20 years ago. It’s a beautiful state full of many wonders but we find the cons outweigh the pros now and we go less and less with each passing year.
Serpico Jones
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The fact that this country still has such a large homeless population is a disgrace.
Ayla
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You live/work in Vegas and you're complaining about California?
Sirwalterraleigh
Premium Member
…of course it is. We talk a big game…”talk”
Disney Irish
Premium Member
Sorry, but this is just false.
Not one of those companies have actually left CA in any actual measurable way. All still have facilities and employees all over the state.
You have to stop believing the headlines as they don't tell the real story. Any "leaving" was just address changes of certain facilities for headline grabbing but they didn't actually move operations out of CA.
Also just because a company setups other facilities in other regions like Austin or Seattle doesn't mean they are leaving CA. Its to setup a base of operations where the specific workforce is located instead of trying to force workers to uproot their lives. Tech has been doing this for decades in order to attract the best talent as a perk, its why they have sites in other countries around the world instead of trying force those workers to the US. Welcome to the global economy, where not every worker is located in one single site.
flynnibus
Premium Member
If you stop growing in one spot... where historically you would always put new growth..
What do you call that?
These companies are still growing - they are choosing to invest in places outside of CA instead of in CA.
Companies of that scale rarely 'leave' outright because replacing people and infrastructure is expensive.. it's better to just start investing elsewhere and let that other stuff age out as time goes on.
What do you call that?
These companies are still growing - they are choosing to invest in places outside of CA instead of in CA.
Companies of that scale rarely 'leave' outright because replacing people and infrastructure is expensive.. it's better to just start investing elsewhere and let that other stuff age out as time goes on.
Tha Realest
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Oracle, Fico, Palantir, HP, Realtor.com...
Tha Realest
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It’s demonstrably untrue to suggest large multinationals - tech and non-tech alike - aren’t leaving California.
These 11 companies have left California over the years
McKesson, Chevron, and Tesla are among the biggest companies to leave California in recent years.
www.businessinsider.com
CoastalElite64
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It’s demonstrably untrue to suggest large multinationals - tech and non-tech alike - aren’t leaving California.
These 11 companies have left California over the years
McKesson, Chevron, and Tesla are among the biggest companies to leave California in recent years.
Those companies moved to take advantage of subsidies and tax breaks, paid for by local taxpayers.
Call me when they eclipse California's GDP.