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In the US, you also need building permit or zoning approval for construction, if it is refused you can't easily go "above" them, unless you take legal action, w

• JumpCrisscross 2y ago
  > In the US, you also need building permit or zoning approval for construction, if it is refused you can't easily go "above" them, unless you take legal action, which is prohibitively expensive. So I don't get why you think your system is somehow better? It's not. But in the U.S., you get access to the common market. The U.K. forwent that advantage vis-a-vis Europe. I'm a proponent of putting production in Britain, but it requires someone in London who can promise ex ante that the local crap will be sidestepped. That, in turn, requires cultivating political connections. Also, having done manufacturing in the UK, Europe and America, the first is universally bureaucractic. You'll encounter similar bureaucracy in New York and California. But you can set up a plant in parts of the country in weeks. That might get you through permitting int he most permissable parts of the U.K.