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If I may chime in, I live near the syngenta campus, I’m very excited to see the office building portion go up, my only wonder is with the newer space, will they hire more people? The newer space will support 650 workers and 100 contract workers, that’s where my curiosity lies.
I'm not really trying to pick a fight, i'm simply trying to open eyes. Instead of always coming at me and others with accusations of trolling whenever we point out something negative about Greensboro, the more sensible people in this thread need to start calling out the hyperbole specialists whenever they start making foolish and unrealistic claims. Supporting and promoting nonsense in public threads does not help Greensboro achieve its goals.
It's fierce competition among cities for jobs and it's kill or be killed. Especially for jobs that pay well. And they don't just fall from the sky. First and foremost, employers covet an educated and skilled work force to fill their ranks. Unfortunately, Greensboro simply isn't well equipped for the competition. Its residents educational attainment levels are considerably below that of Raleigh, Charlotte and even Durham. On its best day, it's a blue collar city and 1000 jobs paying an average of 45 grand a year is a major score. Kudos to every level of government involved in the process. These are the jobs in the wheelhouse for Guilford County. If Greensboro wants to get into the ring for high paying STEM jobs, it's gonna have to up its demographic. And this is where the inability to attract outside talent comes back to bite us. And like it or not, a high crime rate is a major deterrent to the best and brightest looking to find a new home. Safer than Memphis isn't good enough.
A high crime rate really isn't that big of a deterrent. Quality of the workforce and infrastructure are the two biggest factors a company is looking at. Otherwise, Google wouldn't have just announced the 1K jobs for Durham.
It's a chicken-and-egg situation when it comes to talent and jobs, but in the post-COVID world where a lot more people will have the flexibility to live anywhere they want while working remotely, Greensboro has an opportunity to benefit. Local leaders should keep focusing on making Greensboro a more pleasant place to live by improving quality of life and increasing their marketing efforts. Certainly reducing crime will be important on that front, but so will be investing in parks, cultural infrastructure, schools, sidewalks, bike lanes, transit, tourism/hospitality, etc. Over time, as more and more people "discover" it, companies will take notice as well. The economic development model had already begun transitioning from expecting people to move for jobs to jobs going where people prefer to live before the pandemic, but the prevailing wisdom was that these places were largely restricted to the big coastal cities, inland major metros, and mid-major "superstar" cities, with a sprinkling of small boutique-like cities. However, the pandemic has shown that many pleasant smaller cities with a perceived good quality of life are very suitable places to live for high-earning remote workers in addition to the usual potential transplants looking for smaller, cheaper, and warmer places to relocate to.
I'm sure you don't care, but when I saw the title of this thread which had reached 4 pages and that you were the last poster to comment, I already knew what was going on.
Did somebody in Greensboro kill your beagle or something?
I'm sure you don't care, but when I saw the title of this thread which had reached 4 pages and that you were the last poster to comment, I already knew what was going on.
Did somebody in Greensboro kill your beagle or something?
Shocked that a Triad thread can exceed 1 page? Me too.
At least i'm contributing to better stats for this forum.
For the record, I would never let my dog roam around in Greensboro. He might get shot, stolen, mugged, or frightened by a staggering zombie.
Shocked that a Triad thread can exceed 1 page? Me too.
At least i'm contributing to better stats for this forum.
For the record, I would never let my dog roam around in Greensboro. He might get shot, stolen, mugged, or frightened by a staggering zombie.
Cool story bro.
I'm trying hard to give you the benefit of the doubt, because you occasionally contribute something useful, but posts like this make it really hard. Maybe next time?
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