NCR is leaving Dayton.....

[poltr1]

The folks at the Dayton Business Journal have confirmed the rumors that NCR (formerly National Cash Register) is leaving its home of 125 years and moving its global headquarters from Dayton, Ohio to Duluth, Georgia.

This is devastating news to the area, and to the local economy.

The Cash, as it was once nicknamed, had many facilities and buildings in the Dayton area before I moved here in 1989, and at one time, employed over 20,000 people. Many of its buildings have since been vacated and torn down. There are a few buildings left from that heyday, although now they are occupied by the Dayton Daily News and the University of Dayton.

I don't even know that they make cash registers and computers anymore. Their main product now is ATMs.

This is further proof that Dayton is a dying city, which Forbes magazine reported last year.

I really don't expect my next job to be in this town.

Comments

[bikergeek.livejournal.com]

yeah. Dayton's dead, and you should get out. Unfortunately the only places I can suggest to move to are all places like Boston or SF with a ridiculously high cost of living, because there are pretty much no jobs anywhere else at this point.

Welcome to the future of America.

[poltr1]

What's keeping me here in Dayton is my daughter, my house, and my stuff. Other than that, I have no ties here.

I would like to move to a place that's somewhere between Dayton and Buffalo, where my mom is. Cleveland/Akron looks like a good prospect. So would Detroit, as soon as I get a passport to enable me to drive through Ontario.

[filkerdave.livejournal.com]

Plenty here in Houston, jobwise. Not a place I'd make my home, though.

[poltr1]

Roger that. I still have this projection that Texas is full of rednecks and cowboys, with pockets of sanity in places like Austin.