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       徳州向企业招手

正当新冠疫情猖獗之时，许多美国企业正在南迁到德州，其中包括特斯拉在奥斯汀兴建百亿元的大车厂 ，马斯克也将他创立的太空探索公司之太空发射站，设在德州南湾的南帕德岛上， 他準备以徳州為基地為他事业之未来大干一场。

总部在加州的苹果电脑最近也在德州投资上百亿元设立手机加工厂，正在加紧製造工厂搬回美国之计划。

惠普电脑公司最近已经把世界总部撤回到德州休斯敦， 领导世界金融服务市场的嘉信理财也把总部从旧金山转到德州达拉斯近郊，和日本本田北美总部成為隣居。

综合这些大企业南迁的原因 可能有许多因素， 其中最重要的是德州地大人稀，土地资源充沛，居住环境远优於加州，同样价格可以在德州购买湖边别墅，尤其在新冠疫情时期，大多数人都想离开人口密集的都市， 转到绿地成茵的郊区住宅。

德州没有州所得税， 也没有诸如加州的工会组织，对企业是非常重要的选项。

正如德州招商官员们说得好，“ 我不在德州出生， 但我要儘快到德州来。”

经过这次疫情之残酷考验，企业们对将来之发展方向不可不精打算盘了。

 Texas Welcomes New Business

Tesla’s Elon Musk decided to move his company to Texas and build a huge factory near Austin. His aerospace firm SpaceX’s Starship development has also moved to south Texas. Apple Inc. also has built a modern factory in Austin, Texas, to start the assembly line to make Apple iPhones. Hewlett-Packard also has just moved their headquarters to Spring, Texas. Nearby Houston, the world’s leading financial service company - Charles Schwab, has also set up their headquarters from San Francisco to Plano, Texas, where the Toyota Motor North America headquarters is also located.

Why do so many Fortune 500 companies like to move to Texas? The reason is very simple: Texas is a very large state with very cheap real estate prices. People can buy a lakeside villa in Texas with one-third the price they would have to pay in California.

Plus, Texas doesn’t have state income taxes or strong labor unions.

This is very important for any business that is trying to expand into the future.

As one Texan said, “I wasn’t born in Texas, but I got here as fast as I could.”

While the pandemic is still attacking our nation, Texas may be that huge opportunity

that many are looking for.