Where are jobs? Raleigh did not make this one... (Tryon: university, live)
Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, CaryThe Triangle Area
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I thought this was an interesting link: Where are the Jobs? | Indeed.com
Indeed.com has created a map of the 50 most populous cities showing, through the size of red dots, the number of jobs it has -- or at least the ones listed on Indeed.com. Indeed.com consolidates the results of a number of job websites, so it should be a pretty good indication of what's what.
The red dots also link to the listed jobs.
I think it's curious that San Jose, California, apparently has more jobs than anywhere in the country. Hmm. I thought RTP was a hotbed of IT activity (at one time). Hmm. Why are there jobs there and not here?
Can someone please call San Jose companies and tell them to move here?
Too bad NC politics are so contentious. Any modern company's overall decision to move here will certainly be affected by this week's anti-GLBT bill if it is passed.
Too bad NC politics are so contentious. Any modern company's overall decision to move here will certainly be affected by this week's anti-GLBT bill if it is passed.
Nonsense we're the only state in the region that has not done this.
You know, I am always amused by comments like this one.
NC doesn't have anti-LGBT legislation, unlike other Southern states.
We also have the best public university system in the southeast. The best research park infrastructure, in RTP. A leading mid-mile state broadband/fiber optic infrastructure, in MCNC. And lots of other policy choices and investments.
Why do you think people put smart-economy jobs here, and not Louisiana, Mississippi or Alabama? Why do you think Florida's economy is low-wage, service-sector jobs for retirees and tourists and we have huge sites for Cisco, IBM, EMC, and the US HQ for GlaxoSmithKline?
Why do you think folks like my wife and I, when we were ready to leave Boston, only considered the Triangle, Atlanta, Austin, DC, and California? We wouldn't have moved anywhere else, and with our careers, we couldn't.
And it's that in-migration of people with degrees, professional careers and capital that are why NC looks more like America's wealthier states and less like, well, Alabama, Louisiana or Mississippi.
So, yes -- please, why don't we avoid doing some of the stupid stuff our neighbors are doing, eh?
(By the way, lest I be called a Yankee carpetbagger -- I'm from a family that's lived in the South since the 1700s, whose direct ancestor signed the Tryon Resolves, and whose family's owned land in this state for most of the past 200 years.)
Some NCers want to change the law so that GLBT people can't even have civil unions. That runs counter to how high-tech, modern companies want to treat their employees. NC politicians are debating it now.
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Originally Posted by Bull City Rising
You know, I am always amused by comments like this one.
NC doesn't have anti-LGBT legislation, unlike other Southern states.
We also have the best public university system in the southeast. The best research park infrastructure, in RTP. A leading mid-mile state broadband/fiber optic infrastructure, in MCNC. And lots of other policy choices and investments.
Why do you think people put smart-economy jobs here, and not Louisiana, Mississippi or Alabama? Why do you think Florida's economy is low-wage, service-sector jobs for retirees and tourists and we have huge sites for Cisco, IBM, EMC, and the US HQ for GlaxoSmithKline?
Why do you think folks like my wife and I, when we were ready to leave Boston, only considered the Triangle, Atlanta, Austin, DC, and California? We wouldn't have moved anywhere else, and with our careers, we couldn't.
And it's that in-migration of people with degrees, professional careers and capital that are why NC looks more like America's wealthier states and less like, well, Alabama, Louisiana or Mississippi.
So, yes -- please, why don't we avoid doing some of the stupid stuff our neighbors are doing, eh?
(By the way, lest I be called a Yankee carpetbagger -- I'm from a family that's lived in the South since the 1700s, whose direct ancestor signed the Tryon Resolves, and whose family's owned land in this state for most of the past 200 years.)
Some NCers want to change the law so that GLBT people can't even have civil unions. That runs counter to how high-tech, modern companies want to treat their employees.
And counter to how we would want ourselves, our family, our friends and our neighbors treated.
You know, I am always amused by comments like this one.
NC doesn't have anti-LGBT legislation, unlike other Southern states.
Actually we have plenty, including a statutory definition of marriage being man + woman. We just don't have a (redundant to that law) constitutional amendment about it, which would not only redundantly state the same definition as the above, but also invalidate any domestic contract between anyone other than married man + woman. Not yet, anyway.
Let's please keep this thread for the job discussion. I know that same-sex marriages/civil unions are a part of the "social climate" that can affect jobs, but that discussion is already too broad for this thread. Feel free to address those issues in a new thread, though.
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