FYI, Boston used to be a center for financial services but the high taxes and expensive real estate have given companies something to think about.
Eh, just higher rents than R.I. It's pretty simple.
When you relocate your business to another state, it's now called "exporting jobs"? Pathetic.
What's the difference between a company moving from central city to suburbs of that city?
Or to an adjacent state?
Or to a distant state?
Or to an adjacent country?
Or to a distant country?
Does an employer have a "property right" in the jobs it creates?
Does an employee have a "property right" in the job he has?
Does a government have the "power" to regulate when and where a job can move in or out of its jurisdiction?
***"this is the other shoe dropping that we have been waiting for,”***
Massachusetts lost it’s once viable shoe industry for the same reasons.
Shoe manufacturers left Massachusetts starting after the First World War because of, they said, higher production costs here than elsewhere in the United States or overseas, such as wages, union demands, and government regulations. Workers in Asia oftentimes earn less than a dollar per hour. (Massachusetts News By John Pike).
And the housing bubble in Boston takes another prick...
Boston is going to splat very soon...
Any one of their "associates" who objects to moving out of that Hell Hole to Merrimack, NH needs serious psychiatric observation and treatment!
Perhaps Boston could do something to attact WalMarts attention.
I recently read that half the students in Boston's schools are now black. Could this be a case of white flight?