Toyota S&M Headquarters Moving to Dallas Area

[Cheesesteak]

Toyota to move jobs and marketing headquarters from Torrance, CA to suburban Dallas.

http://www.latimes.com/business/autos/l ... z3093rIw8h

[SoCal_Pony]

Frank Scotto, Torrance's mayor, said he had no warning of Toyota's decision. He said he did know that the automaker planned a corporate announcement for Monday.

"When any major corporation is courted by another state, it's very difficult to combat that," Scotto said. "We don't have the tools we need to keep major corporations here."

[NavyCrimson]

Smart move!!!

[couch 'em]

Hate to be negative but with a corporate relocation from Cali comes a bunch of middle age Cali transplants trying to turn our area into the same mess they are running away from.

[PonySnob]

Hate to be negative but with a corporate relocation from Cali comes a bunch of middle age Cali transplants trying to turn our area into the same mess they are running away from.

More residents for the burbs.............

[mrydel]

Always like to have more support for S&M activities.

[Bergermeister]

Hate to be negative but with a corporate relocation from Cali comes a bunch of middle age Cali transplants trying to turn our area into the same mess they are running away from.

Sounds familiar.... just not "California"

[BigT3x]

Sucks that it'll be out in the suburbs

[East Coast Mustang]

Hate to be negative but with a corporate relocation from Cali comes a bunch of middle age Cali transplants trying to turn our area into the same mess they are running away from.

Yeah and the funny thing is they don't learn. They keep voting for Democrats who completely f'ed up the state they left. Was on a date with a girl from CA who moved here because there were so many more job opportunities and the business climate was so much better here, but she was still a committed left-wing Democrat. There weren't very many dates after that

[NavyCrimson]

LOL!!! Well done East Coast.

Your point is well taken. I've talked to native Oregonians, Nevadians, & Arizonians & they're all complaining that the transplanted Californians that have 'escaped' have changed their state's voting patterns & the policies thus putting them on the same path of disaster as California. As an example, my brother-in-law moved his little company to Nevada but still votes like the quintessential Californian - 'stupid'! Liberalism et al. is a religion - not a political position anymore.

One the other hand, I have several friends who work for Toyota who will probably make the move & rest assured they vote with the majority of Texans! They're sick of this place & they understand where it's headed.

[NewAgeMustange]

Well let's just hope that they are like the californians that I have worked with or went to school with. All the guys/gals that I got out of school with were a great fit with Texas and helped SMU rise in the conservative college rankings, but I guess things have changed and SMU is no longer on that list. As for those that I worked with, most of them are extreme left to me, but when you compare them to their friends back on the coast they are considered to be the crazy right wingers.

[Junior]

Always like to have more support for S&M activities.

i just can't believe they have a headquarters fr that. seems like they could get by with just an S&M department or satellite office.

[BigT3x]

My flavor of partisan politics is the correct one!

Nuh uh!

Uh huh!

Ya'll are just as bad as them.

[East Coast Mustang]

My flavor of partisan politics is the correct one!

Nuh uh!

Uh huh!

Ya'll are just as bad as them.

I'm not the one having to flee my state because my political party screwed it up so bad

[StallionsModelT]

There is a reason why four of the fastest growing and most stable economies in the country are located in Texas (DFW, Houston, Austin, San Antonio). Compared to the rest of the country Texas is dirt cheap to live in for employees and to do business for employers. No state income tax, low corporate taxes, relatively low cost of living. The formula isn't complicated.