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  • The Geoffster: 
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  Got mine!

  Sep 14 06:08 PM | Link | Reply
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  • Karen Consumer: 
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  I live in Grand Prairie, outside of Dallas. Yes, Dallas (and all of Texas) has a low tax rate compared to the rest of the country, and we are a right to work state (not alot of unions to hold a company back).
  
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  Dallas lost Mary Kay Cosmetics because they didn't want to foot the bill for a right hand turn lane to make it easier for Mary Kay employees to get to their corporate headquarters. Dallas City Council is determined to build a 1,000 room convention center hotel on the city's dime even though we already have a glut of hotel rooms (the W just opened up not too long ago). Dallas City Council is filled with "if it's not in my backyard, no one deserves it in theirs" business mentality. The City of Dallas recently laid off (or is in the process of laying off) hundreds of employees, including 200 from the police department, taking much needed officers off the streets to fill civilian desk jobs. We have the most expensive insurance rates (auto, home, business) in the nation. The EPA doesn't like the way we issue permits to electric producers (never mind the fact that the providers are constantly jacking up energy prices).
  
  If the City of Dallas doesn't mind footing the advertising bill to get businesses into Coppell, Grand Prairie, Irving, Fort Worth (Tarrant County, a much better place than Dallas County) then I'm all for it. But don't come to Dallas (or Dallas County) just because Mayor Tom Leppert says its good. Like a long list of mayors before him, he thought he could improve Dallas with common sense, but the democratic machine Dallas serves under only makes Dallas look slightly better than Chicago or Detroit in terms of business sense.

  Sep 14 06:22 PM | Link | Reply
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  • DVW: 
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  Good luck to DFW. I lived there for a long time. Nice business environment, but the place is hot, flat, crowded and generally uninteresting. It would take more than a free i-phone for me to move back.

  Sep 14 06:58 PM | Link | Reply
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  • giblet: 
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  What a screwball gimmick, no one moves a company because they've gotten a free iPhone from someone. Is the City of Dallas going to pay the monthly bill on it? I doubt it and certainly hope not. I'm sure most everyone of the CEO's that received one already had one---so they give it to their kid or throw it in a drawer. What flagrant a waste of money...No telling how much they paid some PR firm to come up with this loser idea.

  Sep 14 07:40 PM | Link | Reply
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  • Hmm?!: 
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  I moved to the Dallas area about10 years ago and the city is an absolute joke!
  
  AT&T is probably in the telecomm corridor north of Dallas like everyone else. They refused to create a bond issue, so Jerry Jones could build a stadium and move the Dallas Cowboys to........Dallas. So the Cowboys moved from Irving to Arlington joining the Texas Rangers baseball team. The city has less than a 50% high school graduation rate, with mayors and councilman getting convicted on bribes all the time.
  
  The downtown area is butt ugly, even though the city could easily dam the Trinity river and easily create a beautiful river valley park area. It is the deadest downtown core I have ever seen with lots of office towers boarded up at street level. No restaurants, no shops, just boarded windows.
  
  And they recently tried to pass a bond so they could build a taxpayer funded hotel to put all the street bums in???? Dallas has got real problems, it is all the cities around Dallas that create opportunities!

  Sep 14 10:24 PM | Link | Reply