Virginia ranked #1 business-friendly state.

1. Thanks to the majority party and their policy!!!

2. So you a) credit this to legislation passed in the window during which Republicans controlled the GA and the governor’s office and b) don’t think it matters who the governor is w/r/t business-friendly laws?

3. I must take this opportunity to remind you that I see commenters’ IP addresses. So if, say, a Republican blogger here in Virginia were to post under multiple user names, I’d be aware that all user names belonged to that single individual.

   Just something to keep in mind, Billy.

4. “Business friendly” typically means “worker unfriendly,” so I don’t see this as something to brag about.

5. I bet the most business-friendly part of Virginia is Northern VA. I think the state should be made into 2 states, North Virginia and South Virginia because they are nowhere alike. Business-friendly means a nightmare to Fairfax. I’ve lived here for years and feel like I live on an ongoing construction site. At first it was townhouses and condos as far as the eye can see (Rt. 29 from Fairfax to Centreville). Now Fairfax is just turning into a desert, the condos have no design except that they are all red brick boxes with white lids; institutional looking and just plain ugly. Fairfax City is a living nightmare. We have a traffic circle that has been cut through the middle, so now it is a traffic circle AND an intersection! Fairfax City’s beautification project consists of yes, more condos, and little specialty shops and restaurants that will probably feature $10 hamburgers. There is NO room for anymore cars on the roads. There are no plain old family restaurants in Fairfax City, I mean ones that you’d eat at for several times a week. Fairfax’s idea of slowing traffic is to make the traffic lanes narrower. Hello? How many people routinely drift into your lane while they are yapping away on their cellphones? Old Lee Highway is now wall to wall with traffic on the average workday. No matter where you live here, if you don’t wish to live in a condo, you ARE going to climb stairs. There are no affordable single-family, single-level homes being built anymore. Climbing stairs gets old after awhile. How about all these “Luxury” homes and townhouses starting in the “upper brackets?” There are a couple of green spaces around here that people are desperately trying to save by petitioning and donations. Who enjoys living in a place where it’s a constant battle between developers and the people? I feel like our nice older neighborhood is on the endangered list. And probably so are the battlefields on down past Centreville. They don’t save trees here anymore, they just bulldoze everyone of them down when they build. Drive down Gallows Rd sometime. On top of that, they apparently haven’t heard of “telecommuting” in Northern VA if you working with the gov’t. I have a telephone AND I have a computer, yet it takes me almost an hour to drive 15 minutes home at 3:30pm. I have an option, 10 4-hour days. Wonderful life. Arrive at work 3 hours before daylight and spend 1 day of my 3-day weekend trying to catch up on lost sleep. Until telecommuting becomes the norm, traffic will get so much worse. So we are business-friendly, yet the major highways around NoVA remain relatively unchanged since the 1960’s. We have famous awful summers and it’s wonderful smelling all the car exhaust as we try to merge if we travel I-395 or if we sit at eternal lights on the main highways. Finally the time has come that I’d rather have a higher quality of life, so it’s time to leave Virginia. They can have it.

6. I’m going to vote with K on this one. Virginia is business friendly because there is nothing approaching a living wage law, and most jobs pay around $8/hr (or less if they can get away with it).

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