Why Toyota is moving 3,000 jobs from California to Texas

[Exitus Acta Probat]

Originally Posted by ringwise

Yup, never set foot in the state, but take the word of someone that sees nothing of the country but highway and truck stops.

So i'm guessing you know nobody who actually drives a truck professionally and can tell you what it actually entails.

[ringwise]

Originally Posted by Exitus Acta Probat

So i'm guessing you know nobody who actually drives a truck professionally and can tell you what it actually entails.

I do. In fact married to one. And if he based his views of a city on the stops he makes, there are a lot of places that would look horrible, when in fact they're not that bad.

[Carlyee3]

Originally Posted by Ruth4Truth

The homes may be affordable, but the mongo electric bills to cool them in the stifling summers are not.

And do you find Electric costs cheap in CA? Highest $/KWH I have seen anywhere.

[Ultrarunner]

^^^ Pretty much the highest unless you look to Hawaii...

[hsw]

TM entails back-office $100Kish/yr jobs

Kinda like many 1000 back-office $100-500Kish/yr jobs AAPL, GS, JPM, etc keep moving from absurdly costly locations like CA or NYC or Chic to far more efficient suburban Plano or Austin

Workers are free to choose where they want to live/work: market will speak

Any well-run co. will move jobs to most efficient locales; o/w stock price suffers and CEO eventually loses his job: again, market determines if CEO keeps his job and forces cos. to act responsibly abt locating jobs in efficient locales

No doubt no >$1MM/yr engineers or execs from SV will be moving to TX....but <5% of any engineers in SV earn >$1MM/yr consistently

Anyone semi-smart can find on Net what is total COL vs whatever taxes, housing, schools, cars, utilities, etc etc: compare costs/commutes of new tract house in Frisco vs same in Irvine or SF's (somewhat cheaper) EastBay suburbs (Siberia vs SV jobs)

Can easily fig out weather/topography/insects, etc in TX suck, but no better or worse than anywhere else on planet except a few costly suburban areas of SF Peninsula or LA's Westside: HVAC and new housing/cars makes TX weather far more civilized than in regions w/old housing and distant, smelly/crime-ridden mass transit-oriented commutes amidst similar crap weather

Consider that in key suburbs on SF Peninsula or LA's Westside (where one finds CA's best weather, shortest commutes to key offices, best air quality and best scenery) any new house is >>$5MM

Not clr where on planet is greater QOL/lower COL for <$1MM/yr workers than newer areas of suburban TX....major disconfirmation of the urbanization narrative of coastal commie media....