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There's a great amount of manufacturing in the US. In fact, the US is the world's second largest manfacturer. The reality is you can't open a manufacturing sho
by drzaiusapelord 11y ago
There's a great amount of manufacturing in the US. In fact, the US is the world's second largest manfacturer.
The reality is you can't open a manufacturing shop in a hip and gentrified urban neighborhood for "cool points" and expect to keep costs down. You want factories in poorer rural areas, not a place where the media home sale price is close to $700,000.
The China or bust mentality serves big business, but the reality is that you can do domestic manufacturing at a decent cost if you desired it.
- protomyth 11y agoHouston seems to be one place its pretty easy to get setup in.
- msandford 11y agoHouston's not as cheap as it used to be. Right now if you want to get parts made it's totally doable. But two years ago when oil was at $100/bbl? I couldn't get anyone to return a call, ever! The company I worked for had to start its own machine shop to get anything done. Housing was cheap in '09 but the average apartment rent was $1700 in November '15. That's over a year since the oil price crashed. If oil prices continue to stay low for another year or two Houston might get more affordable as people leave looking for work elsewhere. But that's a big "if" and it's barely started.