That is really interesting. What expertise are you speaking from?
Tesla’s European gigafactory will be built in Berlin
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Re: Tesla’s European gigafactory will be built in Berlin
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Shows you how bad Brexit is for the UK that Tesla chose Germany over the UK. Maybe like Italy we need reserved seats in the House of Lords for Engineering and STEM peers.
Do you have any proof that Tesla was going to build a plant in the UK before? Or are you overlooking how Germany has manufacturing and infrastructure more suited to building cars over all other EU members, including the UK!
Elon himself has cited Brexit uncertainty as a reason for choosing Germany over the UK.
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/nov/13/tesla-cit...
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Being a Berliner, on a personal level it would have been nice for me to have a Google office where they would have been. But I'm very happy about people standing up for their neighborhood and actually protesting. Having a Google office with >400 decidedly well-compensated people move in would very much change the neighborhood and not for the better. People fighting for their own local interests is what makes Berlin g…
But Google did not want to open a dev center with its own employees there. Campaigners acted like their Kreuzberg was the navel of the world believing that. This was a „Google for Startups Campus“ project. Co-working spaces and startup events and so on. Money and potential funding for the Berlin startup scene. I’m rather worried how some vocal and partly violent people, seemingly without a lot of understanding of wha…
Have it somewhere else? Have it in Mitte (Downtown) if really needs to exists. Kreuzberg is not a business park.
I don't object to its existence, only location.
Re: Tesla’s European gigafactory will be built in Berlin
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> which by Berlin standards is an amazing result. They only, and rightfully, get pissed when mega corps like google/amazon come in the city center, buy a 40 storey building and starts paying everyone 100% more than the average for the same position.
How is creating highly paid jobs in the city center bad?
It highly increases rents and thus destroys neighborhoods and communities
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Israel is not a good location for a Middle East factory. Most countries in the region will not trade with it, and even those that will, like Jordan and Egypt, do not have free trade or good transportation links with the country.
no one said building Teslas in Israel... They don't sell here at all.
GP did say that:
> Now they are going to build a plant in Europe. Probably next will come India, and then maybe Latin America or the Middle East, and there I suppose Israel would be the best location.
Re: Tesla’s European gigafactory will be built in Berlin
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> which by Berlin standards is an amazing result. They only, and rightfully, get pissed when mega corps like google/amazon come in the city center, buy a 40 storey building and starts paying everyone 100% more than the average for the same position.
How is creating highly paid jobs in the city center bad?
Rent prices doubled since early 2010. Berlin is not mountain view, normal people actually live here and can't afford it anymore.
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The official name is Federal Republic. I have never seen anybody use the term "German Federation" and can't find many references on Google either.
They wrote it with small capital, which means it was used as a generic term which is completely fine.
OP was asking if "German federation" was "a more literal translation of Bundesrepublik Deutschland", which it definitely isn't.
Re: Tesla’s European gigafactory will be built in Berlin
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> which by Berlin standards is an amazing result. They only, and rightfully, get pissed when mega corps like google/amazon come in the city center, buy a 40 storey building and starts paying everyone 100% more than the average for the same position.
I'm guessing you're being sarcastic?
I'm not, I don't want Berlin to become SF, rent prices are high enough. The fact that these companies do everything they can to not pay tax (aka give back to the local economy) is already enough for most people to tell them to fuck off.
Re: Tesla’s European gigafactory will be built in Berlin
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How is creating highly paid jobs in the city center bad?
Rent prices doubled since early 2010. Berlin is not mountain view, normal people actually live here and can't afford it anymore.
Rent prices didn't double because incomes doubled, otherwise people could still afford it. Rent increases because Berlin doesn't build enough affordable housing.
Re: Tesla’s European gigafactory will be built in Berlin
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Rent prices doubled since early 2010. Berlin is not mountain view, normal people actually live here and can't afford it anymore.
Rent prices didn't double because incomes doubled, otherwise people could still afford it. Rent increases because Berlin doesn't build enough affordable housing.
Also because big corps pay insane amount of money and most companies can't follow, especially in berlin, which is neither a tech nor a financial hub.
There isn't a single cause to that but these companies are definitely part of it. If no one could rent these flats they wouldn't be that pricey... There is a lot of affordable housing too, I'm in the process of looking for a flat and a good 30% of them requires a Wohnberechtigungsschein