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Nissan Design Leaving Michigan, Heading To San Diego
Detroit, 7:56 AM
Mon Dec 7
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San Diego makes sense, as many design houses (auto and otherwise) are located there, along with engineering talent. The general CA Car Culture doesn't hurt.
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Drewdraws2n (pronounced Droo-DRAHS-ton), Michigan - where all your housez are belong to us!
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The bad news: You sell your house for a dollar and can't find a new one under $750,000
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I'll give ya fiddy-five cent. not a penny mo'
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I said something about this months ago, but no one was listening.
Maybe they are listening now up there. I hope so.
For everyone's sake.
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The overall business environment is just too unfriendly here. The state's been loosing businesses left and right because of the costs here. Things like insurance, disability, taxes, etc. have just been to onerous. And lately many of the new green policies der Gubernator has been pushing will continue to pile on the pressure. I would not expect manufacturing to be flocking here. The southern states are a better bet for the auto industry unfortunately.
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The internet and global economy have squashed many of the other benefits. In reality, there is no "car capitol", there are just different automotive sectors spread throughout the world. Nissan's operation in MI was tiny, as previously mentioned, so I wouldn't say this is a sign of CA becoming a 'new' center- it was just convenient because they had a larger operation that's closer to Japan already there.
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sad news... but really its only 110 people. thats like a drop in the bucket for the mighty mitten
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Oh well. I wish those guys well. I'm sure some of them will stay. Detroiters are like that.
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You do know that "La La Land" and San Diego are different cities, right?
San Diego has nearly ZERO "aspiring actors" because they all went to Los Angeles.
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/apologizes for excessive use of air quotes
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