The Goat Pen

AlabamAlum wrote:There is no way Chicago has nearly 10 million residents. They have to be counting outlying areas and suburbs.

aTm wrote:Conservative policies? Austin? Austin is very, very liberal. The type of place where its illegal for stores to have paper or plastic bags and you have to buy the fucking homer bucket from home depot just to carry your shit home.

California lost 9,000 business HQs and expansions, mostly to Texas, 7-year study says


For now, here are some highlights:

Texas ranked as the top state to which businesses migrated, followed by: (2) Nevada, (3) Arizona, (4) Colorado, (5) Washington, (6) Oregon, (7) North Carolina, (8) Florida, (9) Georgia and (10) Virginia. Texas was the top destination for California companies each year during the seven-year study period.

Metro areas benefiting from California disinvestment events, starting with those that gained the most, are: (1) Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, (2) Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, (3) Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale, (4) Reno-Sparks, (5) Las Vegas-Paradise, (6) Portland-Vancouver (WA)-Hillsboro, (7) Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, (8) Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, (9) Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Marietta and (10) Salt Lake City tied with San Antonio.

Broken down to the municipal level, the Top 15, starting with those that gained the most, are: (1) Austin, (2) Reno, (3) Las Vegas, (4) Seattle, (5) Phoenix, (6) Dallas, (7) Portland, Ore. (8) San Antonio, (9) Denver, (10) Scottsdale, (11) Houston, (12) Colorado Springs, (13) Irving, Texas, Plano, and Texas, Hillsboro, Ore. tied, (14) Fort Worth and Tempe, Ariz. tied, (15) Pittsburgh, Nashville, Salt Lake City, and Cary N.C. tied.

Los Angeles led the Top 15 California counties with the highest number of disinvestment events, followed by: (2) Orange, (3) Santa Clara, (4) San Francisco, (5) San Diego, (6) Alameda, (7) San Mateo, (8) Ventura, (9) Sacramento, (10) Riverside, (11) San Bernardino, (12) Contra Costa tied with Santa Barbara, (13) San Joaquin, (14) Stanislaus and (15) Sonoma.

Companies continue to leave California because of rising costs and concerns over the state’s “hostile” business environment, according to the study,

http://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/blog/ ... sions.html

Professor Tiger wrote:People have been fleeing liberal Utopias like Detroit, Chicago, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Los Angeles, because the deplorable economic conditions caused by progressive policies. They have been moving to places like Austin, Phoenix, Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, and Northern VA, because those places have so much better economic conditions caused by conservative policies.

Now, after a mass exodus of refugees from liberal economics, those places where they found refuge are turning purple-to-blue, and will soon have the same high taxes, massive regulations, mandatory tithes to climate change goddesses, etc that created the economic cesspools they fled in the first place.

Toemeesleather wrote:


By almost every metric, Illinois' population is sharply declining, largely because residents are fleeing the state. The Tribune surveyed dozens of former residents who've left within the last five years, and each offered their own list of reasons for doing so. Common reasons include high taxes, the state budget stalemate, crime, the unemployment rate and the weather. Census data released Thursday suggest the root of the problem is in the Chicago metropolitan area, which in 2015 saw its first population decline since at least 1990.


http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/loca ... story.html

Toemeesleather wrote:Have you looked at Kansas and Louisiana who both went maximum conservative economic theory?

Worse than Detroit, OMG!