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FlakMan · Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 9:58 am Post subject: My LTE

In todays 8/16/06 CC Times

Not enough jobs

I was laid off from a senior engineering position with a small oil and gas firm in Corpus Christi. Just too many high-dollar dry holes.

I was quickly faced with the same problem many professionals have been faced with in the Corpus Christi area: lack of alternative job openings. I contacted several oil and gas companies in Houston area and got high-dollar-value offers in just a few days.

So we are leaving. Corpus Christi will stay a backwater town if it cannot get viable companies into the area. Just look at all the empty downtown buildings. When I first worked in Corpus Christi in 1976, downtown was full of viable companies; not so today.

Building on a barrier island will not solve these core issues. Just a few developers and their vassals will gain short-term benefits. Property owners, a few low-paid tourist jobs and city tax revenue will be blown away by the first Category 3 hurricane.

I will miss many friends, but plan to come back often and visit. I will just pay my property taxes to Montgomery County and The Woodlands.

Larry Flak

(Portland)

tbart · Horse Mullet Joined: 06 Mar 2006 Posts: 108

I moved from H town. I work arcoss the country, but not in CC. If the time comes that my job will rely on CC market, my house will be for sale. T.

Bluffer · Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 8:36 pm Post subject:

Glad I can survive on what I make & live here!
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rabbit · Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 2:47 am Post subject:

Your right building on the island wont help downtown corpus or the job situation. Need to rethink the political situation and clean house and start from scratch.
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FlakMan · Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 12:14 pm Post subject: I would have liked too stay but?

Money talks and BS walks. I'm now working in Greenspoint area in North Houston and will be commuting ~30 minutes to The Woodlands. This is not too bad. I get 4 weeks vacation and with oil field perks I will get lots of time on the water! If your in the oil field Houston is the center of the world!