Yet another company moves out of California to Texas: Toyota (1 Viewer)

[Mario Kart]

We need a sequel to this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gung_Ho_%28film%29

 

[Soonerman]

This site has Texas high schools ranked 9th.

http://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/articles/2014/04/21/how-states-compare-in-the-2014-best-high-schools-rankings

 

[Mr Capicollo]

He cited cheaper real estate and lower business taxes as key reasons for the move.

He said it represents an "indictment of California's business climate."

It certainly is.

There isn't much we can do about the cheaper real estate- expensive real estate is what happens when you live close to the ocean, and it's sunny nearly all the time. But lower business taxes, not to mention all of the damn red tape and restrictions in California- these are things we can do something about, and have chosen not to. Now we're going to leave several thousand more jobs to Texas.

Yeah you want to be the state where everything is completely deregulated, factories blow up and they have the one of the worst school systems in the country. It's a race to the bottom and the bottom ain't a great place to live.

NC I get what you're saying, but there has got to be a middle ground. There has to be a way where we can get money for the school system, and protect the environment, but not have too much red tape and not let businesses leave because taxes are too high. California is a paradise, and nobody in their right mind should want to move to Texas. Clearly we are doing something wrong.

California public schools suck too, among other things having the highest student:teacher ratio in the US.

 

[Rohn Jambo]

Huh, I didn't even know Toyota left Japan.

Toyota cannot have cars built by retirees. Over 20% of Japan's population is older than 65 (increase of 10% in last five years). It is projected to reach 40% by 2055.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2014/04/aging_populations_where_people_are_getting_older_mapped.html