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Is Toyota Motor Sales Leaving California?
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Jack Baruth
(IC: employee)
Published: April 26th, 2014
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Unconfirmed industry rumors shared with TTAC today seem to indicate that Toyota Motor Sales will be closing its offices in Torrance and heading to a more business-friendly location.
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Published April 26th, 2014 11:38 AM
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Texas sucks. Traffic is bad. There is no water. The gov is an idiot. 80% of the working population is paid minimum wage. Property taxes are high. Sales tax is high. Lemon law for vehicles favors the dealers. Tornadoes are a given as are hurricanes. Hail that can destroy a vehicle is common. Fracking is ruining the remaining water supply. Earthquakes are more common as a result of fracking. No regulations or insurance requirements to prevent your town getting leveled like West, TX did last year. Religion blocks common sense. Woman have no rights. Toll roads. I couldn't wait to leave that state. The only thing I like about TX is no state income tax. Toyota is leaving one toilet for another. Best news is Californians will get to sell their million dollar hovels and buy a mansion in TX. One other perk is no recycling b.s. like in CA.
Looks like Tyler Cowen is being proved right. The lower middle class and middle-middle class move to places like Texas. I-95 and west of the I-5 are for the wealthy, internationally mobile money, and some upper middle class.
@u mad scientist I've noticed that, despite my repeated attempts to pull you back to the subject, you continue to obfuscate the discussion. Incase you forgot the original discussion concerns the question to you; please provide evidence to support your claim that California is a business friendly state." Nothing more. You can attack every fiscal conservative participant to this post, but that doesn't change the fact that you, you sir, cannot provide one single cogent argument as to why Toyota and other companies shouldn't seek a more receptive business environment. Speaking for a lot of us on this post, may I once again add we await breathlessly, the benefit of your insight. Oh by the way it's not that we couldn't afford to stay in CA it's that we chose not to. Why in the world would I want to squander the product of our life's efforts supporting unending social engineering experiments. One party rule in CA is a economic death sentence.
EchoChamberJDM Im glad that you "left while I still had the chance….cashed out at the top and ran all the way to the bank". Good for you and good riddance. EVdeath...I was born and raised in Alaska so I know a thing or two about cold weather and snow. If you think cold and snow are conditions that ferment a better quality of life.....all I can say is that you are entitled to your opinion. I moved away from being cold all winter and wet all summer and vastly improved my quality of life. The place I moved to is Thousand Oaks, in Ventura County CA, a city of 128,000 6 miles inland from Malibu. It is one of the best places in the country to live (http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2013/10/14/thousand-oaks-ranks-as-4th-safest-city-in-u-s/) Today I had some business to take care of at Pepperdine University....one of the most stunning places on earth to get an education. On the way back to TO I took the long way and drove Mulholland Hwy just for the hell of it because it is one of the best roads anywhere to drive if you like cars. All that jibber jabber about how great TX is and how horrible CA is sound like a lot of sour grapes now. Have a good day wherever it is that you call home.