Just rubbing it in.

[70-ELIMINATOR]

Hey guys. This is what's going on in my backyard.
http://www.nhra.com/content/news/28943.htm

[cowbay]

Hey guys. This is what's going on in my backyard.
http://www.nhra.com/content/news/28943.htm
:violent1::poke::2215::eek:You really know how to hurt a person! Praise the lord we on long island will not have to deal with that noise, family fun, getting street racers of the road, a truly money making endevour, no taffic during the week on already over burdened roads. Yea we really lucked out up here.

[mikelbeck]

We are not amused.

[70-ELIMINATOR]

I'm sorry guys. Like cowboy said. there's a lot of reasons not to have a track. Who wants to be bothered by the smell Alcohol burning anyway?

[Suicide666]

Where in NC are you?

[70-ELIMINATOR]

I'm in Winston-Salem.

[mikelbeck]

That looks like it's gonna be a nice facility. And they've already got an NHRA event scheduled for the end of the season!

[70-ELIMINATOR]

The ownwer of Lowes Motor Speedway told the big wheels in Concord (charlotte) that he wanted to build a drag strip or he would move the speedway to another city. These guys know racing is big money.

[cowbay]

This is the story of Long Island. Politicians and NIMBYS do not realize that you have to accomodate businesses to a certain degree in order that they make money for them to stay. I see it all the time. There is a wharehouse that I do work at where once it was for a drugstore chain. It was to expensive so they moved the facilites to NJ. Then a high end carpet wharehouse where they had mechanics manufacturing carpets at a decent wage but because of the enviroment here in Long Island they moved to Georgia. Now the company there which deals in hair accessories, extensions, wigs and so on just bought a facility in Georgia. The one common thread they tell me is not so much labor but the cost of doing businesses here in NY especially Long Island. From a shipping standpoint there is something that once you cross the bridge cost go up tremendously. As an example I have some material from my jobs dropped shipped to a site in the Bronx instead of my yard and I will save $200.00 in shipping. Why is that? The other reason is taxes. This wharehouse by me they pay over a million dollars a year, it is insane. In Georgia it is $300,000.00. The latest company wanted to do a 20,000 SF extension but until they found out it was going to raise their taxes by $150,000.00 Even my dumpy property where I store my equipment cost $32,000 a year. If I was to improve the property I have been told my taxes would go up by double. Then the other things are the insane restrictions believe it or not wharehouses in the town of north hempstead technically can not have trailers and trucks parked outside over night. They are supposed to be inside. It is rarely enforced but the rule is still out there. But that is just my rant for the day, and all I can say that if it was not for my business here in Long Island I would most likely move myself.