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Re: Amazon announces candidate cities for HQ2

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Post by _m8fo »

rmrfrmrf wrote: post #76
_m8fo wrote: post #50

I feel as though there are too many cities. I'd be curious to know what the top 5 are. My picks, in no particular order: - Boston - Dallas - Atlanta - Chicago - Denver In all likelihood it'll be Boston or Denver.

Are these dev jobs? If so, time zone coverage = less hours on call

Are what dev jobs? HQ2 should have a pretty large mix of roles, similar to HQ1.

Re: Amazon announces candidate cities for HQ2

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Post by Grasshoppeh »

robbiemitchell wrote: post #43

NYT walked through a process of elimination and concluded it will be Denver. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/09/09/upshot/where-...

Interesting, I would have still guessed Massachusetts due to the education system. If there goal is to make high paying jobs an educated population makes it much easier to find talent.

Re: Amazon announces candidate cities for HQ2

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Post by harryh »

empath75 wrote: post #25

If it doesn’t end up somewhere on the silver line in northern Virginia, I’ll eat my hat. Plenty of housing, transit straight to the city or an international airport, convenient access to the nations capital for lobbying, in the middle of us-east-1, a large population of tech workers, lots of local universities, right in the middle of the east coast...

And Jeff Bezos recently bought a $23M home in DC.

CEO residence location is a strong predictor of where businesses set up shop.

I also think it's telling that 3 of the 20 listed cities are DC + DC suburbs.

Re: Amazon announces candidate cities for HQ2

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Post by scioto »

Please, not Austin. Austin is full. Not enough water for the current population. At least one local park requires a waiting list to get in, and you can only spend a half day there. Mass transit is a joke. Commutes are terrible. Go away.

Re: Amazon announces candidate cities for HQ2

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Post by runevault »

With how bad traffic/congestion is right now (in spite of our light rail/bus infrastructure) I'm surprised Denver is in the top 20. Especially since last by my understanding the city was offering a less rich incentive package than a lot of the other cities.

Re: Amazon announces candidate cities for HQ2

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Post by fetus8 »

robbiemitchell wrote: post #43

NYT walked through a process of elimination and concluded it will be Denver. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/09/09/upshot/where-...

As a Colorado resident, I'd love for them to pick anywhere BUT Denver. We already have major issues with homelessness, and rapidly rising cost of living. Our highways and infrastructure are beyond congested already, and our public transit is pretty half assed. If Amazon is going to build HQ2 here, they better help contribute to improving public transit, creating affordable housing, and help improve the highways to handle the influx of more new people, which I doubt they'll do. So please, pick somewhere else.

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Post by 013a »

breitling wrote: post #64
dominotw wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> escape form the US government. Curious what specifically would be different between Canada and USA polices towards amazon.

For starters this whole immigration thing seems different. Canada welcomes immigrant workers. Even fast-tracks their applications (within 2 weeks) to work in Canada. This way Amazon can hire anyone, anywhere in the world (within reason) and they'll be able to move to Canada without any immigration issues.

Unless they create immigration issues.

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Post by freehunter »

dominotw wrote: post #61
freehunter wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I guarantee someone in North America has said the exact same thing about your country :) Everyone wants to be somewhere else.

Mmmm, you might be surprised. Much like there's a romantic view of the US from other countries, there's a romantic view of India for some Americans. India is an absolutely massive, diverse country with a lot to offer.

The Beatles spent a lot of time in India and came back very different people. That's enough to draw some level of interest from folks looking for a spiritual journey, not to mention the history of their (to many Americans) mysterious, exotic, and ancient religions.

But from that guy's post history, I'm guessing he's from Central or Eastern Europe, which does hold a far more massive draw for many Americans.

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Post by nosequel »

robbiemitchell wrote: post #43

NYT walked through a process of elimination and concluded it will be Denver. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/09/09/upshot/where-...

I was happy to see that Denver pitched Amazon with talent and not tax incentives [1]. I think most in Colorado would be perfectly happy if Denver didn't win and would be very unhappy if Denver won by giving tax breaks.

- [1] https://www.denverpost.com/2017/10/18/amazon-headquarters-co...

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