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I still keep reading posts from people wanting job information who are moving from other states. Think twice right now.
Southern states an epicenter for U.S. job losses
Southern states an epicenter for U.S. job losses - Yahoo! News (http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090804/us_nm/us_usa_economy_south - broken link)
Maybe the south is a good place for people who like collecting unemployment benefits?
Seems we are stuck with thousands that came here without jobs or taking a job that was short lived. Three or four percent of the unemployment rate is due to this. If everyone that moved here in the last three years would go back to the place from which they came, unemployment would be at an acceptable rate. Not that I wish this to happen, I am just saying that it isn't that we are like a decaying rustbelt city. We have been put in our situation because of the abundance of jobs until 2007 when the recession hit hard.
Seems we are stuck with thousands that came here without jobs or taking a job that was short lived. Three or four percent of the unemployment rate is due to this. If everyone that moved here in the last three years would go back to the place from which they came, unemployment would be at an acceptable rate. Not that I wish this to happen, I am just saying that it isn't that we are like a decaying rustbelt city. We have been put in our situation because of the abundance of jobs until 2007 when the recession hit hard.
Yes but at the same time I don't think its the people that moved here that are causing the high unemployment rate actually I think they may be holding it down. The reason be is that the banking industry collapsed and wasn't Charlotte always big in banking? If this crisis happened 20 years ago wouldn't Charlotte's unemployment rate be over 20% by now because of the lower population back then?
Yes but at the same time I don't think its the people that moved here that are causing the high unemployment rate actually I think they may be holding it down. The reason be is that the banking industry collapsed and wasn't Charlotte always big in banking? If this crisis happened 20 years ago wouldn't Charlotte's unemployment rate be over 20% by now because of the lower population back then?
Of course not.
Banking was steady here but it was the buyouts and mergers that made BofA and Wachovia headquarters for large banks w/ thousands and thousands of jobs.
Charlotte was so different 20 years ago - you really would have a hard time imagining it, LOL.
Take a stroll down (my) memory lane of 20 years ago . . . see if you can even recognize Belk Freeway and the area surrounding it, LOL!!!
It really has changed so much, Ani. I'd love to see a video from this same time period, with the trip beginning in Waxhaw at the RR tracks, traveling Providence Rd/Hwy 16, and ending downtown Charlotte. You would be stunned at the change.
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Originally Posted by anifani821
Of course not.
Banking was steady here but it was the buyouts and mergers that made BofA and Wachovia headquarters for large banks w/ thousands and thousands of jobs.
Charlotte was so different 20 years ago - you really would have a hard time imagining it, LOL.
Take a stroll down (my) memory lane of 20 years ago . . . see if you can even recognize Belk Freeway and the area surrounding it, LOL!!!
Maybe so but wedont need any yankees comin here that dont have a job.
I agree with you but why mention only "Yankees"? Charlotte doesn't need people coming from states that are south and west of here without jobs either. I'm so tired of "Yankees" being singled out on this forum in a negative way. We're not the enemy. Really!
I agree with you but why mention only "Yankees"? Charlotte doesn't need people coming from states that are south and west of here without jobs either. I'm so tired of "Yankees" being singled out on this forum in a negative way. We're not the enemy. Really!
LOL I know!!! No one ever mentions California
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