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Re: Meanwhile they don't employ anyone Long term, short term, neither will matter. REGULATORY/TAX conditions in the state and city are what are going to determine whether or not jobs show up. |
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elray
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Santa Monica, CA | said by skeechan:Long term, short term, neither will matter. REGULATORY/TAX conditions in the state and city are what are going to determine whether or not jobs show up.
Regulatory, tax, cost of housing, energy, ease of transport, public safety and quality of schools -> educated workforce all come together to inform whether a business might want to relocate.
You also have to have enough sizzle to attract the boss. If the boss doesn't want to live in Podunk, because you have no [insert favorite ethnic adjective] deli, or Mrs. Boss is scared of the locals, it ain't gonna happen.
Sprinkling Magic Google Dust on a zip code to boost internet speeds from 10M to 1000M ... simply does not rank. Most businesses simply don't need that type of bandwidth, and for those that might, its at the hosting sites. |
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| Which is why the local ecodev is going after small biz development rather than trying to entice large biz to move with massive incentives/corp welfare. KC metro already has about 3000 IT/tech shops, nearly all home grown. It's already considered high ranking in entrepreneurial development.
On a related tangent, there is rumor in KC real estate circles that Google is looking to buy the massive Sprint HQ campus in the KC area (Sprint is using only half). If true, perhaps Google is looking to base the fiber division in KC area. KC is already a top 10 telcom town and hit a list for a lot of Android developers, so is plausible.
»forum.kcrag.com/viewtopic.php?f=···le+rumor |
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elray
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Santa Monica, CA | said by xenophon:Which is why the local ecodev is going after small biz development rather than trying to entice large biz to move with massive incentives/corp welfare. Who said anything about large biz? |
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