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JBaLLEN66
05/07/21 1:18:07 PM
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then complain about not being able hire young sustainable talent

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Squall28
05/07/21 1:19:25 PM
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Cheap rent prob.

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CommonGrackle
05/07/21 1:20:54 PM
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what's wrong with Greenville?

I've never been there, btw
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R1masher
05/07/21 1:22:11 PM
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Everything is cheaper there, their employees can thrive down there

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JBaLLEN66
05/07/21 1:22:48 PM
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CommonGrackle posted...
what's wrong with Greenville?

I've never been there, btw

hmm I wonder why?

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PMarth2002
05/07/21 1:24:10 PM
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the answer for why company x does y is basically always because they thought it would make more money.

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gamer167
05/07/21 1:31:35 PM
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The guys at the top of those offices probably get tired of being in a over congested, over saturated, overly expensive, dump of a major city so they move HQ elsewhere like Greenville SC which is a beautiful little city.
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K181
05/07/21 1:32:45 PM
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One of the issues in Illinois is that a trio of pretty major companies (State Farm in Bloomington, Caterpillar in Peoria, and John Deere in the Quad Cities) have all either moved, are in the process of moving, or used the threat of moving to Chicago or out of state to basically get a king's ransom from locals to stay. Caterpillar moved to the Chicago suburbs, and Peoria is still hurting, while Moline gave Deere the keys to the city and Bloomington-Normal is in a case of constant petrificafion about State Farm opening up massive offices in the south.

I get that most young people want to live in major cities, and I'm living in a wealthy Chicago suburb for that reason as well despite having a rural background, but there is a major existential dread in places that still have big companies and nothing but decline on the horizon for loads of smaller cities that have already lost their cornerstone businesses.

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Giant_Aspirin
05/07/21 1:34:09 PM
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PMarth2002 posted...
the answer for why company x does y is basically always because they thought it would make more money.

^

companies exist for one thing and one thing only: to make as much money as possible

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Jerry_Hellyeah
05/07/21 1:34:46 PM
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JBaLLEN66 posted...
hmm I wonder why?

Ive never been to the shithole you live in.

hmm I wonder why?

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berlyman101
05/07/21 1:36:11 PM
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I think South Carolina is one of those states that have a lot of tax breaks for companies. could be wrong

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PrettyBoyFloyd
05/07/21 1:45:57 PM
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Does every fucking state have a Greenville?


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Questionmarktarius
05/07/21 1:51:48 PM
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K181 posted...
One of the issues in Illinois is that a trio of pretty major companies (State Farm in Bloomington, Caterpillar in Peoria, and John Deere in the Quad Cities) have all either moved, are in the process of moving, or used the threat of moving to Chicago or out of state to basically get a king's ransom from locals to stay.
Property taxes are so jacked up in Illinois that a sweetheart carveout is nigh-critical for business viability.
...which then just jacks up the property taxes even more. TIF is a death-spiral.
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brestugo
05/07/21 1:52:37 PM
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Tax breaks are the reason. You think corporations care about their employees quality of life?

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brestugo
05/07/21 1:53:38 PM
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CommonGrackle posted...
what's wrong with Greenville?

I've never been there, btw
It's in South Carolina for starters.

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PrettyBoyFloyd
05/07/21 2:03:29 PM
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brestugo posted...
It's in South Carolina for starters.

There is a Greenville in NC and TN.

But they're way out there and has no significant purpose.


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brestugo
05/07/21 2:06:12 PM
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PrettyBoyFloyd posted...
There is a Greenville in NC and TN.


Those too.


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BeyondWalls
05/07/21 2:13:57 PM
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Theres nothing wrong with Greenville, SC. I like it. Not sure what TC is talking about. Which company?

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JBaLLEN66
05/07/21 2:26:50 PM
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Jerry_Hellyeah posted...
Ive never been to the shithole you live in.

hmm I wonder why?

I used to live in Nashville, TN which is a shithole so agree, I have since moved to Houston which is way better

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pogo_rabid
05/07/21 2:28:05 PM
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What I don't get is why companies build their offices in literal shitholes like NYC

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Esrac
05/07/21 2:31:24 PM
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Well, where do you think they should have their offices?
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brestugo
05/07/21 2:36:31 PM
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Went to Greenville, SC on business. Twice. Heat, humidity, mosquitos, racism and more. Most everything closes at 8 pm so get your shit before then.

More confederate flags than you can shake a fist at.

People have a lot of cars there. Some even run. Some of them are in the driveways. A lot in the front or backyard though.

Third time I sent a subordinate. Fourth time, subordinate asked to send someone else. The one guy who liked it was a fuckup who ended up getting terminated for other reasons shortly later.


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Flamer_Blue
05/07/21 2:43:49 PM
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Because they are cheap to rent but not a lot of young people live around so they are doomed to hire old people.

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K181
05/07/21 3:08:04 PM
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Questionmarktarius posted...
Property taxes are so jacked up in Illinois that a sweetheart carveout is nigh-critical for business viability.
...which then just jacks up the property taxes even more. TIF is a death-spiral.

Chicagoland is still booming, it's the rest of the state that's stagnating for the most part. Idiocy in Springfield and city hall certainly hurts, but Illinois is a case study for basically the decline of rural America as a brain drain is pulling people out to the cities.

And while Chicago's population has gone down, the suburbs have jacked up.

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BeyondWalls
05/07/21 4:59:52 PM
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Flamer_Blue posted...
Because they are cheap to rent but not a lot of young people live around so they are doomed to hire old people.
Seems like as many young people live in Greenville as they do anywhere else.

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