Last year, GM left the Dayton, OH area and loads of jobs were lost. Throughout the state, cities are dying.

Four of the cities in Ohio — Youngstown, Canton, Dayton and Cleveland— are among the top 10 dying cities in America, according to an August 2008 report in Forbes.

Now NCR is leaving, too.

NCR, originally named National Manufacturing Company but later changed to National Cash Register Company, was founded in Dayton, OH in 1884. The company has built ATMs, barcode scanners, created the first transistor-based computer in 1957 in partnership with GE, and even code-breaking machines during WWII.

Now all those jobs will be moving to Georgia.

NCR Corp., a Fortune 500 company, will move its corporate headquarters from Dayton, Ohio, to Duluth, Ga., adding clout to metro Atlanta’s technology reputation.

NCR will relocate 1,250 corporate jobs to its Gwinnett County operation, a source familiar with the plan said. The company is also expected to launch a 550,000-square-foot manufacturing operation in Columbus, Ga., where it will employ nearly 880, the source said.

The state attempted to keep NCR's business. Governor Strickland even offered more than $31.1 million in economic incentives but it wasn't enough to get the deal done.

NCR CEO Bill Nuti and Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland spoke by phone Monday evening, and Nuti told Strickland the company has been looking at Georgia for some time, an official in the Ohio governor’s office told Atlanta Business Chronicle sister publication Dayton Business Journal (DBJ).

Atlanta will now get more jobs (which is good for them, obviously) while Dayton and other cities like Youngstown, Canton, and Cleveland will continue to die.