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I know a guy who owns a couple of high-end gift shops. He was getting robbed blind in California. People would come in with a bag, fill it and walk out, knowing they wouldn't be stopped. Those shops are now closed.
He's opening stores in Texas. Can't say I blame him.
I know a guy who owns a couple of high-end gift shops. He was getting robbed blind in California. People would come in with a bag, fill it and walk out, knowing they wouldn't be stopped. Those shops are now closed.
He's opening stores in Texas. Can't say I blame him.
Did he find someplace in TX that isnt already filled with gift shops that desperately needs one?
Did he find someplace in TX that isnt already filled with gift shops that desperately needs one?
I think you're being deliberately obtuse in this and several other of your responses. Texas has 29 million people; you can still move to Texas and fill a niche, or do it better than someone else and be successful.
People with skills can and do write their own ticket. You act like licensing is done by royal favor, but people in the trades with knowledge can easily master the differences and get it done if they're in any way motivated. They can even bring their spouses, who may have skills of their own, but even if they don't the job market is such that anyone willing to work can find good employment.
Moving to another state to seek your fortune elsewhere used to be a common practice and part of what made this country great. We've become to damn soft.
I think you're being deliberately obtuse in this and several other of your responses. Texas has 29 million people; you can still move to Texas and fill a niche, or do it better than someone else and be successful.
People with skills can and do write their own ticket. You act like licensing is done by royal favor, but people in the trades with knowledge can easily master the differences and get it done if they're in any way motivated. They can even bring their spouses, who may have skills of their own, but even if they don't the job market is such that anyone willing to work can find good employment.
Moving to another state to seek your fortune elsewhere used to be a common practice and part of what made this country great. We've become to damn soft.
Your opinion and your Horatio Alger speech are both totally unnecessary.
The essence of the whole issue is that if you are failing where you are located, you only have two options: you can move or you can shut down.
There are very few businesses that absolutely must be located where they are located. Oil wells can't be moved. A tuna fishing boat can be moved, but has few options about location. But most businesses can be moved, and they will be moved if the government makes it impossible to do business where they are located.
Moving a business is difficult, but the business will be moved if that is the option that works better than the other choices.
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~300 businesses move from WA and OR to ID every year (due to regulation and tax changes on left coast).... Including most of our Dairy Farms which take 2-5 years and many semi-truck loads and a huge new infrastructure investment.
Manufacturing company with large employment base is tough to move, but I have moved them (1500 employees) from Colorado to Idaho, and also WA, then internationally (10-30,000 employees) from Singapore to Malaysia, then to Thailand, then to China, then back to Thailand, then back to a cheaper part of China...
You do what you need to do to stay in business (as / it makes sense... Or not)
My renter was an aluminum boat builder, did great in WA building construction boats for dam projects... But dam building went out of favor, so he moved his business to Caribbean Islands, where annual hurricanes assure lots of business clients.
Many friends with online businesses moved from USA taxed states to non-taxed. Then to USA protectorates / territories.
I volunteer with SCORE and SBDC, each are free services for USA based businesses, and we help many companies relocate. Within cities, regions, states. My SIL just relocated her business from OR to HI, after trying 4 locations within OR. All locations have their issues +/-, select areas are more suitable. We set up a 'high tech' and a 'wine cluster' of businesses and support structure in our economic region which includes 5 counties in 2 states. This gives they're businesses a lot of available support. Much of it free (arranged by rural economic development council.)
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~300 businesses move from WA and OR to ID every year (due to regulation and tax changes on left coast).... Including most of our Dairy Farms which take 2-5 years and many semi-truck loads and a huge new infrastructure investment..........
There will be no dairy farms at all in Oregon if the voters pass IP13 next year. It makes artificial insemination into the crime of sexual assault. Cows don't give milk if the don't have calves and they don't have calves if they can not be bred. No breeding, no calves, no milk, and no dairy farms.
Dairy farming is a billion dollar industry in Oregon that employs over 1600 people. Turning them all into criminals is going to cost the state a lot of tax dollars and a lot of lost jobs.
All animal related farms will have to move out of Oregon if slaughtering animals becomes a crime.
However, I see a great business opportunity in the near future involving smuggling bacon into Oregon.
What kind of business can just pack up and move far away?
Like just on a whim. That is what seems to be happening in California. Businesses just packing up and moving to places like Texas.
Do you have examples?
Some large companies have announced they are expanding their operations in Texas, or in some cases even moving their headquarters to Texas. That is quite different than "packing up" the entire company and moving to another state.
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