<story><title>PayPal Withdraws Plan for Charlotte Expansion</title><url>https://www.paypal.com/stories/us/paypal-withdraws-plan-for-charlotte-expansion</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>throwaway5752</author><text>I will be super interested in Red Hat. They threatened to leave for Atlanta in the past five years. This could not be further from their corporate values, and they have a highly distributed workforce and a big base of operations in Massachusetts and a fair number of people in the Bay Area.&lt;p&gt;McCrory is a real idiot. The money in NC comes from the cities. They may have won a Pyrrhic victory in the gerrymandering, but now that the rural districts have this power to drive legislation, they are going to drive companies&amp;#x2F;money right out of Asheville (brewing, tourism), Charlotte (finance&amp;#x2F;finance tech), and Raleigh&amp;#x2F;Durham&amp;#x2F;Chapel Hill (software R&amp;amp;D and biotech).&lt;p&gt;PayPal isn&amp;#x27;t the first news. NC lost a startup incubator that was going to start a local presence already. There is more to this, and it&amp;#x27;s going to end the governors&amp;#x27; national political ambitions as well has harm the economy of NC for decades.&lt;p&gt;edit: if it doesn&amp;#x27;t get overturned (in its entirety) immediately when the legislation gets back in session or through the courts, which is already in progress.</text></comment>
<story><title>PayPal Withdraws Plan for Charlotte Expansion</title><url>https://www.paypal.com/stories/us/paypal-withdraws-plan-for-charlotte-expansion</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>stblack</author><text>This is the first time I have ever read news that reflects PayPal in a positive light.&lt;p&gt;Never thought I would ever write these words:  way to go, PayPal!</text></comment>