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In today's global economy, when a company is exploring possibilities for a future facility location, it is likely to have a list that includes not only U.S. cities, but also cities throughout the world.

Where that company will choose to locate often hinges on labor and on which factor is more important: low costs or high skills.

As a general rule, if that future facility is to be labor-intensive, it will usually end up in a low-cost location, possibly India, China or Eastern Europe. In these cases, where the labor component will constitute the bulk of the op