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Educational Media Foundation plans To Move To Nashville
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The difference being that they have access to their listeners' credit card numbers, and the other radio companies do not.
Most of that is true, but have you looked at real estate around Franklin? Housing in Middle Tennessee has gone crazy in recent years, especially Franklin and the surrounding area. That is where EMF's new studios/offices are located and it isn't very much cheaper than Rocklin. The rest of life is cheaper though and no state income tax is so nice.
For what it is worth, most baptists, especially the SBC-types in Nashville would be considered evangelicals.
Let's turn down the temperature on some of this rhetoric. It doesn't really have anything to do with EMF's move.
Nashville is the center of the Christian music world and has been for decades. That is a big driver of the move. Also their recently hired CEO was already based in Williamson County as well as the morning show. Why is the morning show based there? Probably for the central location (hard to do a national morning show while on Pacific time and still have a life) and proximity to relevant talent and interviews.
Big announcement about the move can partially be detailed.
Eleven acres of land. Fair amount of property, but EMF is not only radio. Coming soon more film, podcasting and live events and more in a 125,000 square foot building in Williamson County with good access to interstates. 300 plus jobs. Leasing 25k sq ft of Two Franklin Park until building and campus are completed.
Beat out Colorado and Texas and CEO Bill Reeves says Nashville and Tennessee “won the day in so many categories.” Did his best to not badmouth California, but it is just too expensive for a nonprofit and nonprofit employees.
I urge the 160-ish employees to get their housing lined up yesterday, as this city is on absolute melt down buying frenzy growth fire. I predict 250k plus new residents will live in the 8 County Metro Nashville area within 36 months or less. 300k of those will be from IL, NY and CA, which could sway voting for gr8oldies.
Eleven acres of land. Fair amount of property, but EMF is not only radio. Coming soon more film, podcasting and live events and more in a 125,000 square foot building in Williamson County with good access to interstates. 300 plus jobs. Leasing 25k sq ft of Two Franklin Park until building and campus are completed.
Beat out Colorado and Texas and CEO Bill Reeves says Nashville and Tennessee “won the day in so many categories.” Did his best to not badmouth California, but it is just too expensive for a nonprofit and nonprofit employees.
I urge the 160-ish employees to get their housing lined up yesterday, as this city is on absolute melt down buying frenzy growth fire. I predict 250k plus new residents will live in the 8 County Metro Nashville area within 36 months or less. 300k of those will be from IL, NY and CA, which could sway voting for gr8oldies.
Are they keeping the new studios that were recently built near downtown Franklin?
I'm not sure Williamson County ends up being that big of savings to Placer County, other than state income taxes and some fees. Real estate is nuts.
Even if that 300k estimate is true and even if all 300k, were Democrats, Republicans would still carry Tennessee easily.
Wonder how they'll react to the permitless open carry laws and the new notices outside public bathrooms.
Those liberals who move to Tennessee will do the same thing conservatives do after moving to Connecticut. Live with certain aspects of public policy they don't care for while enjoying the benefits of working and living in the state they've moved to. Maybe they'll join community political organizations or lash out on social media. But for all intents and purposes, their reactions won't change anything.
Even if they're coming from California or Illinois, they're coming to work at a conservative Evangelical ministry, so I imagine a large number of them will vote Republican, and likely have no problem with anti-LGBT legislation that has passed, or "unlimited guns for everyone over 21". The higher ups will have their kids in private Evangelical schools. Although if you're someone who's not a higher up moving to Tennessee for the gig, if things don't work, unemployment will be only 12 weeks and then you're going to be driving Uber or slinging hash until you find your next gig.
The OP was referring to a projection of 250,000 new Nashville-area residents, 300,000 of whom (huh???) will be from NY, CA and IL. Where those numbers came from, no earthly idea. And there's no way EMF is hiring hundreds of thousands of people to staff its Nashville offices.
We've looked at the Nashville area with the idea of getting out of CA. Compared to even the much lower-than-LA-and-SF property values in the Coachella Valley area, we could have twice the house for about half or less the money. Lower gas prices, lower utilities, lower sales tax, much lower insurance costs, particularly auto.
The only thing that keeps us here is family and the considerable Hispanic presence, allowing us to speak Spanish with friends and, of course, the gardener and other service providers.
And many of those leaving CA are the more conservative, tired of how their high tax payments are spent.
There are about a dozen new companies, including Amazon and Oracle:
Oracle submits plans for $1.2B investment into new Nashville hub, creating 8.5K jobs
Oracle has announced plans to invest $1.2 billion into a new hub in Nashville.
www.newschannel5.com
Oracle was previously in Redwood City CA.
Those companies are going to need to attract a workforce that's younger, more diverse and probably more progressive. Extreme anti-LGBTQ legislation, unlimited guns, and a promise to allow future pandemics to spread like wildfire with no mitigation efforts whatsoever may not be the best way to attract them. No, I don't want a deep blue state, but a little purple might help. Tennessee at one point was "business conservative", not "insane theocrat bordering on racist"There are about a dozen new companies, including Amazon and Oracle:
Oracle submits plans for $1.2B investment into new Nashville hub, creating 8.5K jobs
Oracle has announced plans to invest $1.2 billion into a new hub in Nashville.
Oracle was previously in Redwood City CA.
Middle Tennessee, as the locals call it, is a great place. Beautiful landscapes, convenient locations to a lot of the country, decent airport, low taxes, high quality of living, and until somewhat recently, reasonable costs. Housing costs have exploded though. Look at the current market for Franklin, TN and compare it with Rocklin. I'm not saying it is exactly the same, but it's very expensive compared to the rest of Tennessee or basically all of the south. You still come out ahead, but if you were trying to relocate to give your employees better economic opportunities there are many markets that have cooler real estate.
I'm in Texas and have thought about this a lot, as we have had quite a wave of Californians moving here. I think there is truth in what you are saying. I'm also sympathetic though to the longtime residents of Arizona, Nevada, and to a lesser extent Colorado who have had their state's political makeups change drastically in a short amount of time, undoubtedly from many Californians moving there. One thing worth considering is that not all of the relocations are the same. The recent moves seem more about trying to get away from California and the current leadership and all of the self-inflicted wounds. I suspect this crowd is likely more conservative. Time will tell.
Previous waves appear to be less driven by anger at Sacramento and more about lowering living expenses while still being close (Phoenix/Vegas).
Companies place campuses in locations where there is an existing talent pool to draw from. They generally do not play a "build it and they will come" game. That's why so much tech is expanding in places like Austin and Raleigh and Oracle, for example, is not building a giant new campus in Beckley, WV or Valdosta, GA.
That's unfair. California and other "blue" states, which had very draconian covid orders (many of which are scientifically questionable at best) didn't fare better at controlling the spread of the pandemic than many states that started relaxing rules last summer and let businesses/individuals make their own best decisions.
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just because states had lots of covid orders doesn't mean everyone followed them. This thing has been mostly handled by individuals, not governments.
That's totally fair. But the reverse is also true: just because a state was more hands off on the orders doesn't mean everyone there blew off all good judgement or guidelines.
Just the thought that my state and county government, and a substantial part of the population would give me the choice of "die for the economy" or "drop out of society with no support" because their right to spread sickness and death trumps my right to not end up on a ventilator has not set well with me. Even when numbers were going through the roof, they were causing city council meetings to go past midnight to scream "I have a right to crowd a restaurant for $9.99 rib night and I don't care if employees get sick now open everything up,no masks right now!" It's the same argument with "unlimited guns for every man, woman and child". The. right of any idiot to have a deadly weapon in his pants pocket trumps my right to not be shot.
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