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The Price Of Doing Business

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the they're-not-even-a-real-country-anyway dept.

8127972 writes: "It seems that a ton of high tech companies are leaving cities (like San Fran) with high costs of doing business for cheaper cities (Washington DC is mentioned due to new government spending) or even cities in Canada. Sounds like American high tech workers are going to have to learn to say the word "eh?" a lot."

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  1. Move to Oklahoma!!! by TurboRoot · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The cost of living here is SUPER low.. plus.. you can hire VBscript monkies to work on ASP sites for $8/hour.

    In Oklahoma, you put an add in the paper, and you will have billions of applications and you can pick who ever is willing to take the least amount of pay.

    That is why companies like AOL like to put call centers in Oklahoma cause they can pay a whole $9/hour and people shit themselves about how much money it is. :)

    Unfortuantly, actually SELLING a product in Oklahoma is kind of bleak.. but if your product is nation wide.. then this is the place.

  2. Well, except for one thing... by cswiii · · Score: 5, Interesting

    ...the fact that trying to actually get in to Canada "sucks".

    If all the high tech jobs move up that way, most Slashdot readers are gonna be working behind the counters at 7-11, unless Canada loosens its new immigration restrictions a bit.