Same with Pittsburgh!Originally Posted by ranger
Same with Pittsburgh!
"Money goes in. Toasters come out. But where does thebread,dough, money go?"
Last edited by blues; 11-13-2018 at 06:54 PM.
There's nothing civil about this war.
There were sighs of contentment here in the DFW Metromess when the news came out.
Good luck to you folks up there.
I was relieved to hear DFW didn't get it too, although I never thought we were seriously in the running.
"Sapiens dicit: 'Ignoscere divinum est, sed noli pretium plenum pro pizza sero allata solvere.'" - Michelangelo
Toasters are a great weapon against white privilege. White goes in, brown comes out. Soon she'll be an advocate for Amazon toasters.
And risk putting someone competent in that seat. She a Democrat party darling, at the moment untouchable within the party, and she's out encouraging protestors at Pelosi's office. As a disruptive force she's the one of the better things that the Republicans have going at the moment.
Whether you think you can or you can't, you're probably right.
I imagine them moving to Crystal City will make my property value go up, which is a good thing as an investment.
Simply out of spite, I'm also happy to see them move from Seattle. A lot of you guys look at Amazon as a company that "sucks a community dry" and doesn't give back or whatever, but an area can't lose 50,000 jobs and not notice it. Seattle is about to get a tangible lesson in economics, just like they got when they tried pulling that tax shit that has basically forced Amazon's hand for the long run.
DC is probably very happy. Anacostia has some gentrification projects going on, and this is likely going to put those into overdrive.
Last edited by TGS; 11-13-2018 at 08:32 PM.
"Are you ready? Okay. Let's roll."- Last words of Todd Beamer
My understanding is, they aren't pulling out of Seattle, they are just expanding. Maybe I miss understood?
Many of my friends and colleagues in Seattle are very un-enamored with Amazon.
futurama
But as these cities go all-out to win Amazon’s affections, they might take a lesson from the city where those same affections have dimmed: Seattle. To be sure, the town’s business community is mortified to be losing so much of Amazon’s future growth to another city and has roundly blamed the city’s left-leaning “anti-business” politics. But many ordinary Seattleites seem relieved. Most would acknowledge the extraordinary prosperity that Amazon has brought to Seattle since Jeff Bezos and his startup arrived in 1994. But they are also keenly aware of the costs, not least the nation’s fastest-rising housing prices, appalling traffic and a painful erosion of urban identity. What was once a quirkily mellow, solidly middle-class city now feels like a stressed-out, two-tier town with a thin layer of wealthy young techies atop a base of anxious wage workers. As one City Council member put it, HQ2 may give Seattle “a little breathing room” to cope with a decade of raging, Amazon-fueled growth. A commenter on a local news site was less diplomatic: “Amazon = cancer.”
”But in the end all of these ideas just manufacture new criminals when the problem isn't a lack of criminals.” -JRB
Expanding their HQ by 50,000!? That would be.....something.
The article I read said they were relocating. Bezos bought a $23 million mansion in DC.
"Are you ready? Okay. Let's roll."- Last words of Todd Beamer
Maybe the 50k will move to DC before the next WA state gun initiative comes up.
”But in the end all of these ideas just manufacture new criminals when the problem isn't a lack of criminals.” -JRB
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