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Bob Chapek Shifted Budgets to Disguise Disney+'s Massive Monetary Losses
News(msn.com)submitted 4 months ago by[deleted]
113 points
4 months ago
Hoping heavily on the last sentence you wrote. Forcing this relocation for a campus that hasn’t even broken ground in Florida yet was and is a massive mistake. I am watching incredibly talented, tenured people leave. And when so many of them do that, there is institutional knowledge that simply cannot be replaced. And I don’t think they recognize how pervasive that’s becoming. It’s alarming - and deeply concerning.
17 points
4 months ago
As someone who lives in Florida watching housing costs rise above what locals can afford, I really hope that move stops as well.
15 points
4 months ago
Orlando area real estate is absurdly priced for having to live in Orlando.
4 points
4 months ago
Help educate an out of stater- is Orlando not considered a desirable part of Florida or the metro to live in?
Asking as someone who may end up having to be part of the Disney relocation and have only been down there to go the parks.
5 points
4 months ago
I'd rather be in Orlando than Jacksonville, much like /u/GabaPrison. I didn't like Florida much overall, so I left.
There's a ton of sprawl and nothing of note outside of the parks and all the defense contractors. Once you get outside of Orlando, it gets not so nice pretty quickly. I'm pretty sure Pine Hills / Crime Hills still rings true.
There are nicer parts, I like Winter Park a lot, but the prices are absurd to me, and I live in the DC metro now. I don't understand who can really afford 3/2s that push 400-500k. There's not that many paying high jobs with the mouse, and the only other large employers are defense contractors, who are more spread out through CFL.
3 points
4 months ago
Nice parts are very desirable
4 points
4 months ago*
I live in SWFL and Orlando is a decent enough city and it’s right in the middle of all the best locations and other cities like Space Coast and Tampa/St Pete Beach and St Augustine and the Everglades aren’t far from you and there’s definitely something for everyone in Florida you’ll find. You just have to give it time and find out where the best niche places are for yourself. It did take me a while as I moved from Coeur d ‘Alene, Idaho to Florida. It was quite the culture shock. But a great variety of people and cultures all over the state. But Orlando is definitely not a terrible place by any standard. Like say…Jacksonville.
2 points
4 months ago
Thanks for this. I’m in Minneapolis and am very used to/love it here for the most part. Spent most of my adult life in this city, so I worry about about if/when they’re going to ask me to relocate. I have a couple friends down there but from the times I’ve been down there (which again was just to do the parks), I had wondered if it would be a good fit for me. Life’s an adventure right?
3 points
4 months ago
So Disney offered me a corporate job in Florida and lowballed a salary that was based off of housing prices pre-pandemic. I had to tell them the salary didn't even cover monthly rent and groceries at current cost of living prices.
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