People have come to a greater understanding of the nexus of technology transfer between higher education and finance and a rapidly growing wealth-generating economy. Ten or 15 years ago, for example, Florida was worried about becoming a hamburger-flipper economy. It has not. One of the things it did was to direct the state's investment in certain areas to replicate some of the assets of Massachusetts. There's been only one new exit on the Mass. Pike built in the last 23 years.
Workers start to look at how long a commute they have.
If I work in the Marlborough area, for example, that area backs up three or four miles every morning. And once you get off these highways you end up with sewage problems that restrict your ability to build plants. From that standpoint it's very much of a hassle. I have to tell you that employees, particularly high-tech employees, have options of going to these other places. With California you won't get a short commute, but certainly that's the case in Raleigh-Durham and some other places.