Arizona

 take off your rainbow shades
Arizona have another look at the world

Texas dumbass Gov Rick Perry tried it and now Arizona is trying..trying to lure California businesses to the desert because they say California is tax heavy and anti-business....

...well it's true that some folks leave California to retire in Arizona....the only problem is they can't go outside in the summer because it's too hot so they have these elaborate indoor cooling machines...but I think the Arizona folks who are complaining should move to Israel and hobnob with that worthless jackass terrorist Netanyahoo...a certified child killer

the story:

An Arizona business group is reaching for one of the oldest plays in the book -- offering to help California companies avoid higher taxes by leaving the state.

The Greater Phoenix Economic Council said it will fly 100 chief executives to Arizona for a grand tour of all the Grand Canyon State has to offer.

"If I were running a company in California, I would have a deep internal debate about the direction of the state," said Barry Broome, the group's president. "You just have an environment in California that isn’t good news for people who build and run companies."

California voters approved Proposition 30 last week, raising the sales tax by a quarter-cent for four years and income taxes on high earners by one to three percentage points for seven years.

The Arizona group expects to spend about $200,000 on the program after expanding it from 50 to 100 chief executives because of strong initial interest.

Broome himself has some experience choosing between California and Arizona. He almost took an economic development job in San Diego last year before deciding to stay in Phoenix.

Gil Duran, a spokesman for Gov. Jerry Brown, dismissed Broome's overture.

"Anybody who tries to convince you to leave the best and richest state for some parched desert outpost should be regarded with extreme suspicion," he wrote in an e-mail. "Scam alert!"

　
and what if Meg Whitman was elected Gov of California..Meg's having a tough time at HP driving the stock to new lows!!

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-11-20/why-you-still-can-t-bet-on-a-hewlett-packard-comeback


nice place to visit, but....
When life might have become uncertain, gloomy, too expensive, or stagnant, people have turned to Arizona hoping for a brighter future and brighter days. With over 300 days of sunshine a year, plenty of people are easily convinced that a move to the Phoenix area is the right thing to do. And on just about any relocation website you will come across, Arizona sounds like a pretty damn good choice. You will come across countless claims on the affordable housing, an expanding and prosperous job market, terrific year-round weather, and a million other reasons why you should join the millions of lost souls spread throughout the state of Arizona.

http://arizona-sucks.com/

It is not until you pack up the family, all your belongings, the golden retriever, and actually make the move to Arizona that you will realize life out here is drastically different than what your Realtor had told you. You will encounter life forms you were sure only existed on other planets, a job market that appears to be severely misplaced, and a housing market that may never fully recover. Everything you had ever worked for essentially thrown away in that snap relocation decision, and now you must live out your sentence melting away in an extremely over-priced stucco dwelling in the Arizona summer heat. You will go from having your own office to working your own drive-thru window – you will go from having equity in a nice house in an established neighborhood to paying down a mortgage which is hundreds of thousands of dollars more than the home is actually worth – you will go from having real, valued friendships to locked away in your house to avoid these people, all the crime, and the temperature extremes. It won’t take long until you realize you have become just another one of the many trapped in this discouraging, dusty, densely packed desert called Arizona.

Anyone with two brain cells left to rub together will know that Arizona is known for low wages and that the mainstream careers out here include retail and call centers. It is unfortunate that the job market in Arizona is so piss poor, but to say that it is anything else would be a straight up lie. Since there are so few places to further your career in Arizona, many people end up working the drive thru window or retail just to support their families. Plenty of people in Arizona are stuck in jobs where it becomes next to impossible to put away any money or acquire any valuable skill sets for a real chance to get themselves out of this mess. It is hard enough to land an out-of-state job, but it is increasingly more difficult if your recent work experience was polishing urinal mints at an Arizona fast food chain. Employers want experience and there aren’t too many jobs in Arizona where you can gain this experience unless you always dreamt of maximizing your number of plates washed or outbound calls per hour. Those stuck trying to move out of Arizona often realize that any time spent in Arizona has done nothing to build their resume or expand their professional network and this makes it increasingly difficult to leave. Arizona will not help you further your career and even if you do manage to get out, you will be stuck all the way at the bottom once again.

So many people bought into Arizona’s bogus housing market and are now stuck with mortgages they will spend a lifetime paying off. It is frightening how many people in Arizona are paying hefty mortgages, are upside down on their mortgages, or are just a month away from foreclosing. The Arizona housing market is not rebounding anytime soon, and many people who buy out here really have no idea what they are potentially in for. You would be surprised to find out just how many people are stuck out here just because they have a mortgage on a house they couldn’t dream of selling and can’t find any qualified renters for. In a real estate market where there are already so many available homes, more developments going up for some reason, and so few buyers, it really gives those buyers and potential renters the upper hand. Many people cannot afford to take the several hundred thousand dollar hit by selling their homes right now, so they end up stuck living in Arizona even though it is often not by choice.

Countless others arrive in Arizona and just let themselves completely go. Just a few months in Arizona and it is understood that ambition means nothing out here. Look at the people around you – so many people out here surround themselves with beers, double cheeseburgers, and chrome wheels they are just renting.

Arizona...why doncha go my way!