Orlando Becoming East Coast Headquarters for Disney Parks, Experiences, and Products

[tanc]

I think a lot of people will refuse to move... just means I guess others will take their place. Unfortunately I question if it's a good thing or not. Due to covid, allegedly many employees are working remotely. If that's true, then this probably is shocking news.

 

[Sirwalterraleigh]

It means salaries look and feel better without a 4 - 12% rake-off by the state.

That will go well with the 20% reduction in pay that new hires will get very quickly into the future…

…or are we putting the Florida blinders on?

 

[Sirwalterraleigh]

Disney will have a better retention rate than most believe because of the jobs involved. Orlando is the themepark capital of the world. Florida is home of Disney Cruise Line and DVC. Having direct access to everything in the Division leads to better knowledge of the Division and more promotional opportunities. Besides much of the work in Immagineering requires travel all over the world working on the various parks and that will only increase as more Disney parks are built.

What is: “assumptions stated by people that have never worked for those things, Alex?”

 

[JoeCamel]

Yes!! The central Florida area gets so much stupid irrational hate. I lived there for 5 years and loved every single minute of it! I relocated back to NC last year for a job opportunity, but I am counting down the days until I am back in Orlando...for good!!

I spent 20 years in Florida, our experience is very different. It is not the vision of the future unless you like urban NJ

 

[jeanericuser001]

I spent 20 years in Florida, our experience is very different. It is not the vision of the future unless you like urban NJ

Could be worse. Some parts of florida area almost as bad as detroit.

 

[EeyoreFan#24]

I think a lot of people will refuse to move... just means I guess others will take their place. Unfortunately I question if it's a good thing or not. Due to covid, allegedly many employees are working remotely. If that's true, then this probably is shocking news.

Unfortunately, I think this is part of their expectation. Relocation costs avoidance and reduced entry salaries is probably in their financial forecast. That is, if they chose to backfill that position.

 

[JoeCamel]

Could be worse. Some parts of florida area almost as bad as detroit.

And some are absolute paradise (except for the weather, insurability of dwellings, sprawl encroaching etc.) but yeah it really has some questionable portions. Stay in the bubble? live near the parks and never venture into the blight? you can

 

[Sirwalterraleigh]

Yes!! The central Florida area gets so much stupid irrational hate. I lived there for 5 years and loved every single minute of it! I relocated back to NC last year for a job opportunity, but I am counting down the days until I am back in Orlando...for good!!

So your experience are in those two “cosmopolitan” regions?

Could be worse. Some parts of florida area almost as bad as detroit.

And some are like ala-missa-tenne-georg-la-sas-ky…

which is why I gotta chuckle when Florida is ballyhooed as the “template for the future”

…talk to me in a recession , peeps…New York will look pretty good then.

 

[Sirwalterraleigh]

Unfortunately, I think this is part of their expectation. Relocation costs avoidance and reduced entry salaries is probably in their financial forecast. That is, if they chose to backfill that position.

A big factor in offering relocation is knowing many won’t take it.

“can’t say we didn’t try…”

 

[Sirwalterraleigh]

And some are absolute paradise (except for the weather, insurability of dwellings, sprawl encroaching etc.) but yeah it really has some questionable portions. Stay in the bubble? live near the parks and never venture into the blight? you can

living within 5 miles of a vacation compound (I’m well familiar)…is kinda like the Truman show.

people tend to act as though that’s “Florida”

not the ghost town of Titusville…the sprawling poverty around Miami…or the “nearly dead” collapsing 20th century developments going on for miles along the coasts.

 

[ImperfectPixie]

living within 5 miles of a vacation compound (I’m well familiar)…is kinda like the Truman show.

people tend to act as though that’s “Florida”

not the ghost town of Titusville…the sprawling poverty around Miami…or the “nearly dead” collapsing 20th century developments going on for miles along the coasts.

Not to mention that the vast majority of tourists kinda suck. (We get a lot of them where I live.)

 

[Sirwalterraleigh]

Not to mention that the vast majority of tourists kinda suck. (We get a lot of them where I live.)

But as long as there’s a tourist draw…people believe it utopia to be in the “aura”

…can’t live a real life on vacation.

 

[flynnibus]

if I want low government, cheap, and hot... I'll goto Vegas over the swamp

 

[ImperfectPixie]

But as long as there’s a tourist draw…people believe it utopia to be in the “aura”

…can’t live a real life on vacation.

We're far enough away from the tourist draws that it really only affects hubby's Friday afternoon drive home from work. Other than that we're mostly able to avoid it (but we have to avoid some pretty pleasant areas for much of the good weather).

 

[TrainsOfDisney]

Central FL is 10x better than CA. Much safer, less expensive and easier to do business.

That’s your opinion ha.

if I want low government, cheap, and hot... I'll goto Vegas over the swamp

What’s nice about Vegas is the tourists really only go to the strip. Out in Henderson you won’t see many tourists!

That’s not the case in Florida where every convenience store seems to be a cheap Disney souvenir shop.

 

[MorphinePrince]

So your experience are in those two “cosmopolitan” regions

I wouldn't consider rural North Carolina cosmopolitan, its a cesspool of meth addicted rednecks. Orlando isn't cosmopolitan either but I love having the illusion that I lived the high life, after all my zip code was the same as Windermere. At the end of the day, I refuse to live anywhere other than the South. North Carolina is trash compared to Florida and as I said earlier I cannot wait until I can move back

 

[flynnibus]

can we compare how many times we've heard "North Carolina Man" vs "Florida Man"?

 

[MorphinePrince]

can we compare how many times we've heard "North Carolina Man" vs "Florida Man"?

Make it a drinking game and I'm in

 

[Lilofan]

if I want low government, cheap, and hot... I'll goto Vegas over the swamp

Sin City where locals even have their own casinos to lose their paychecks, no thanks. One thing cheap are the min bet tables and the drinks.

 

[TrainsOfDisney]

Sin City where locals even have their own casinos to lose their paychecks, no thanks. One thing cheap are the min bet tables and the drinks.

The casinos are more honest about it then Mickey!