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Re: Jamba Juice will move headquarters from Bay Area to Texas

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On 08/08/2016 04:49 AM, California democrats chase another business to 
Texas wrote:
> More than 25 years after the first Jamba Juice shop opened in
> San Luis Obispo, the owner of the smoothie company announced
> plans to move its headquarters from California to Texas within
> eight months.
>
> Jamba Inc. will close its Emeryville, Calif., office and
> establish a new corporate home in Frisco, Texas, about 30 miles
> north of Dallas. In a statement, Chief Executive David Pace said
> Jamba was looking for places that had �competitive operating
> costs,� access to �skilled restaurant talent� and an �attractive
> cost of living,� along with a central location for further
> expansion.

What about the executives and other employees who don't want to relocate
from the fabulous Bay Area to some hicktown in Texas?  It's cheaper
because unlike San Francisco, nobody wants to live there.

Dallas is a cultural wasteland, and I envision the suburb of Frisco as
a giant strip mall of Vietnamese nail polish shops, cellphone stores,
the usual fast-food chains, on and on and on for thirty miles to Dallas,
with the traffic probably takes about two hours.

I used to live in Texas and it sucks.  There is little public land,
everything is surrounded by barbed wire fences, which means no hiking
trails or camping or other outdoor recreational activities.  Most of
the state is flat, and the scenery consists of cactus and tumbleweeds.
If you live along the Gulf Coast, it is hot and humid.  Further north
it is just hot.  If you live along the border it a virtual police state
with Border Patrol checkpoints along every road.  (They're only supposed
to ask you your citizenship, but they often demand to search you car,
which they are not legally allowed to do without a warrant.)

Jamba Juice will save a little money on its headquarters rent, as well
as on wages for basic staff (secretaries, etc), due to Texas' lower
minimum wage.  The outsourced janitorial company will pay their
undocumented workers less, so they save money there.  Then they will
have to pay for a headhunter to replace everyone who refuses to move
to some shithole in Texas.

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Jamba Juice will move headquarters from Bay Area to Texas "California democrats chase another business to Texas" <worthless@latimes.com> - 2016-08-08 06:49 +0200
  Re: Jamba Juice will move headquarters from Bay Area to Texas Dänk 42Ø <dank@safeword.amsterdam.com> - 2016-08-08 07:32 +0000
    Re: Jamba Juice will move headquarters from Bay Area to Texas Dänk 42Ø <dank@420.org> - 2016-08-10 06:17 +0000

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