MetLife to add 2,622 jobs in Cary and Charlotte

[WorseBeforeBetter]

http://www.newsobserver.com/2013/03/08/2732748/metlife-to-add-2622-jobs-in-cary.html#

A good day in Cary, a bad day in Lowell, Mass.

Read more here: http://blogs.newsobserver.com/editor/a-good-day-in-cary-a-bad-day-in-lowell-mass##storylink=cpy

[octoberlib]

1. I suppose we should be glad this doesn't involve destroying the environment.

MetLife is expected to bring 1,300 jobs to Charlotte, and as many as 40 percent might be filled by company employees transferred to the region.

N.C. Commerce Secretary Sharon Decker told the Observer that 30 percent to 40 percent of the 2,600 jobs MetLife plans to add to the state might be made up of MetLife employees brought to North Carolina through consolidations.

Read more here: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2013/03/08/3901934/many-metlife-jobs-might-not-go.html#storylink=cpy

[WorseBeforeBetter]

2. I dunno, sprawl, lousy mass transit, more cookie-cutter housing developments...

Interesting, up to 40%. Wonder how many other of those "$80K jobs" will go to North Carolinians. Will it be like the $900M Medicaid contract in which workers from India were brought in since North Carolinians didn't have the COBOL skills? I can't wait to hear what all these transplants will say once they get a taste of Wake County school assignments. Stay tuned...

[laureloak]

3. It's MOVING jobs from blue states to red states

And using the taxpayer piggybank to do so.

These are NOT new job creations, they are relocations.

[FBaggins]

4. That's still good news for NC.

These are well-paying positions and only some of them will be internal transfers.

So it's bad news for the communities that are losing jobs (and for those who don't want to transfer)... but it's good news for NC.

And it could be very good news for those who are open to a move. I can tell you that when it happened to us a decade ago it was some of the best news of out lives. To move from an area where half a million buys you a townhome an hour from the office... to a place where half that much gets you a single-family home a few minutes away is hard to pass up.

[WorseBeforeBetter]

6. That's one of the reasons I ended up here...

housing costs. I'm in a home that cost about 80% less than my former community in the DC 'burbs. That boggles my mind.

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5. That's why I added this to the OP...

A good day in Cary, a bad day in Lowell, Mass.
Read more here: http://blogs.newsobserver.com/editor/a-good-day-in-cary-a-bad-day-in-lowell-mass##storylink=cpy

Estimates are that up to 40% of the jobs are transfers. And I want to hear more, much more, about these $80K/yr jobs that will go to approximately 1,573 North Carolinians. I just don't see it.

[laureloak]

7. Moving BLUE state jobs into RED states.

My point was: Moving BLUE state jobs into RED states by using taxpayer funds to bribe them here.

[WorseBeforeBetter]

8. Yes, we get it. (n/t)