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Amazon HQ2: Advanced talks about second headquarters in Northern Virginia

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Re: Amazon HQ2: Advanced talks about second headquarters in Northern Virginia

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Post by fierro »

throwaway713 wrote: post #185

Aargh, I wish ONE tech company would put a HQ somewhere in the South. I currently live in the Bay Area working at a company I love, but I'll have to move back at some point (my wife wants to be closer to family). Crystal City, VA is still an 8 hour drive from the part of the South I'm from. Atlanta, Raleigh, and Nashville have so much potential... I think if just one of FANG put a HQ there (or even an office), the ot…

I feel like the South has a long way to come before the average tech worker would want to live and work there. You couldn't pay me enough (literally since comp is so low out there, but also kind of metaphorically as well) to go work and live in any Southern state. Maybe you need a critical mass? - fellow Bay Area tech worker

Re: Amazon HQ2: Advanced talks about second headquarters in Northern Virginia

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Post by gonehome »

issa wrote: post #190
JPKab wrote: post #187

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yep, they have it covered already. I lived in Northern Virginia for 8 years. It's got a mediocre quality of life compared to other tech centers, extremely high cost of living, horrific traffic, and has a talent pool that is inflated on paper due to the misaligned incentives of the Federal government workforce (Federal government workers are promoted and hired based on arbitrary checkmarks like Masters degree: yes/no,…

100%. My move from SF to DC was mind-blowing in the general expectations set on developers. Without hyperbole, a year of output at most gov't contracts is a couple weeks worth of work at a typical startup.

That plus it’s so much cheaper in DC. As someone who lives in the Bay Area but has to travel to DC a decent amount the complaints about DC housing costs are nothing compared to Palo Alto.

If Amazon is putting their campus there you should buy everything you can.

Re: Amazon HQ2: Advanced talks about second headquarters in Northern Virginia

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Post by freyir »

prolikewh0a wrote: post #136
influx wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Seattle is soulless according to you? I’ve lived in Seattle and worked for Amazon when the headquarters was in a creepy old hospital up on beacon hill, and yes there has been change in Seattle, most of it for the better. Anyone that tells you South Lake Union neighborhood was better pre Amazon is full of it. It was a bunch of warehouses and run down. Do you have experience of Seattle over the past decade, or are you…

You only have the stresses of major homelessness and an extremely large heroin/meth problem, directly due to the endless growth Amazon and other large companies had on this city, with the "top minds" of Seattle having absolutely no clue how to solve it. I've seen multiple people die since I got here, and I've seen people with guns to their heads over drugs outside of my Capitol Hill apartment. Seattle's population wi…

How did Amazon cause the heroin problem in Seattle? There's been a growing heroin and homelessness problem all over the country. Did it cause this too?

Re: Amazon HQ2: Advanced talks about second headquarters in Northern Virginia

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Post by rhexs »

issa wrote: post #190
JPKab wrote: post #187

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yep, they have it covered already. I lived in Northern Virginia for 8 years. It's got a mediocre quality of life compared to other tech centers, extremely high cost of living, horrific traffic, and has a talent pool that is inflated on paper due to the misaligned incentives of the Federal government workforce (Federal government workers are promoted and hired based on arbitrary checkmarks like Masters degree: yes/no,…

100%. My move from SF to DC was mind-blowing in the general expectations set on developers. Without hyperbole, a year of output at most gov't contracts is a couple weeks worth of work at a typical startup.

Goodness. Sounds like some high quality software you’re working on.

Re: Amazon HQ2: Advanced talks about second headquarters in Northern Virginia

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Post by fierro »

tvanantwerp wrote: post #122

I live in the DC area and this is entirely expected. Bezos owns the Washington Post and a very expensive DC home. Amazon's got data centers in Northern Virginia. We would've all been shocked if it went somewhere else.

I don't follow this line of reasoning. Jeff Bezos decides where to put Amazon's new HQ based on how quickly he can get home? Demand for his time is probably already spread all over the globe, I'd imagine many of his important meetings happen over phone/conference daily.

total guess, I have nothing to back this up

Re: Amazon HQ2: Advanced talks about second headquarters in Northern Virginia

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Post by lberk »

BurningFrog wrote: post #141
Deimorz wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Scott Galloway was pretty confident that it was always intended to be in Washington, partially because of Jeff Bezos already owning a house there: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HyiY_m_YxI&t=542 I recommend watching the actual talk, but there are a few sections of it summarized (including some about Amazon HQ2) in this article: https://www.recode.net/2018/9/19/17878766/scott-galloway-pre...

The richest man on Earth can buy any number of houses wherever Amazon builds an office.

It's got nothing to do with whether or not Bezos can buy a house in a given location. It has to do with examining the existing incentives that led Bezos to buy a home there in the first place, and applying that logic to the requirements of HQ2.

Re: Amazon HQ2: Advanced talks about second headquarters in Northern Virginia

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Post by qaq »

qaq wrote: post #151
amanaplanacanal wrote: post #142

I wonder how much the locals are giving away to make this happen?

You do realize that like 3 of top 5 counties by avg family income are in NoVA

Defense, IT (3d after SF and NYC by number of devs)

Re: Amazon HQ2: Advanced talks about second headquarters in Northern Virginia

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Post by jupiter90000 »

throwaway713 wrote: post #185

Aargh, I wish ONE tech company would put a HQ somewhere in the South. I currently live in the Bay Area working at a company I love, but I'll have to move back at some point (my wife wants to be closer to family). Crystal City, VA is still an 8 hour drive from the part of the South I'm from. Atlanta, Raleigh, and Nashville have so much potential... I think if just one of FANG put a HQ there (or even an office), the ot…

Google has an office in Atlanta. Not sure if it has the jobs you want though.
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