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In reply to the discussion: According to Fareed, business are moving out of blue states to TX and FL. [View all]DFW
(60,162 posts)I guess it's a logical consequence of all the people wanting to move there. The same thing happened to my little town outside Düsseldorf. The Japanese decided, for some reason, that Düsseldorf would be their home away from home in Europe, and the real estate section of the Saturday paper is full of "Japanese concern looking for single family houses for its executives, price no object." Not easy for mortal Germans to compete with. In downtown Düsseldorf, one of the main streets might as well be in Tokyo. Hotel Nikko, the Japanese Consulate, bookstores with books and greeting cards only in Japanese, Japanese porcelain shops, Japanese travel agencies, fancy Japanese restaurants, simple Japanese rahmen shops, Japanese grocery stores, complete with Koreans working the cash registers, just like in Japan.
Since I live with my housemates in Dallas when I'm there (almost never, any more), and they've been in the same house for decades, it's never been a factor I paid any attention to.