a:1:{s:15:"field_blog_body";a:1:{i:0;a:2:{s:5:"value";s:1614:"<div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt">From <a href="http://mjperry.blogspot.com/2011/04/michigan-economy-doing-better-than.html">Mark J. Perry's blog</a>:</div>
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<div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt">[S]ome companies are now relocating from California to Michigan!&nbsp;According to this report from Joe Vranich, 70 companies left California from January 1 through April 15 of this year, and the #3 destination behind Texas (14) and Arizona (6) was Michigan, with four relocations (tied with Nevada).&nbsp;And just last Thursday an Irving-based company (Blackford Capital) announced that it's the fifth California company heading this year for greener and more business-friendly pastures in Grand Rapids, Michigan.&nbsp;That's &quot;disinvestment event #78&quot; so far this year according to Vranich, who regularly tracks the companies moving out of California.</div>
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<div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt">The post also mentioned that renting a U-Haul from Los Angeles to Grand Rapids is more expensive than renting one from GR to LA, meaning that demand is greater heading to Michigan than to California.</div>
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<div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt">What happened on January 1st of this year? Hmm&hellip; football games? Yes, but that probably didn't have anything to do with it. Oh, I know, Governor Snyder was inaugurated. And he didn't even need to take a trip to Japan to bring jobs here.</div>";s:6:"format";s:1:"2";}}}