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Originally posted by x0225095:
Candidates or Victims? Please not Nashville.

No kidding. When they announced that SLC wasn't on the list, I breathed a sigh of relief. We're growing like wildfire as it is, and we don't need anymore libtards until we can fully assimilate the ones we already have.

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Perhaps more taxes will keep them in Washington?

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Originally posted by oldfireguy:

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Perhaps more taxes will keep them in Washington?

You mean there is another state that charges a business more taxes than Washington?

With Inslee and crowd in control I would look for Amazon, Boeing, and others to start moving out of state.

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Originally posted by YellowJacket:
Atlanta and Austin seem the most likely candidates, imo.

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Originally posted by Yellow Jacket:
I think Amazon is looking for the biggest sucker they can find.

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Originally posted by sigspecops:
I hope it’s not Dallas. We’ve got too many people here already and the housing shortage is driving real estate prices sky high.

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Originally posted by wishfull thinker:

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Originally posted by Yellow Jacket:
I think Amazon is looking for the biggest sucker they can find.

I am now confidant that you understand the nuances involved in a mega-enterprise of this sort. Concur.

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Originally posted by wishfull thinker:

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Originally posted by YellowJacket:
Atlanta and Austin seem the most likely candidates, imo.

How did you come to that conclusion? I'm not arguing with you, I'm curious to know how you got there?

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Originally posted by mark123:
I'm wondering why they chose all big cities. Wouldn't it make more sense to build warehouses and shipping stations in small towns outside of city limits? Lower property cost, less tax burden, lower cost workforce, etc.

Am I looking at it wrong?

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Originally posted by Skins2881:
One of the sites is a three minute drive from my house. I praying they pick my location, should add 10%+ to home value and will mean I can likely rent it for a pretty penny.


Amazon announces its list of 20 candidates for second headquarters

While the race is far from over, Amazon (AMZN) announced Thursday it has narrowed down its list of 238 proposals from across to the U.S., Canada, and Mexico to 20 candidates, who all hope they will get a chance to become the e-commerce giant’s second headquarters.

“Thank you to all 238 communities that submitted proposals. Getting from 238 to 20 was very tough – all the proposals showed tremendous enthusiasm and creativity,” Holly Sullivan at Amazon Public Policy said in a statement. “Through this process we learned about many new communities across North America that we will consider as locations for future infrastructure investment and job creation.”

Amazon said it evaluated each of the proposals based on the criteria outlined in the request for proposal (RFP) to create the list of finalists that will continue on to the next stage.

Over the next couple months, the company said it plans to work with each of the candidate locations to dive deeper into their proposals as well as evaluate the feasibility of a future partnership that can accommodate the company’s hiring plans. Amazon added that it expects to make a final decision this year.

Amazon’s new HQ2 will be a complete headquarters, with plans to invest over $5 billion and create as many as 50,000 high-paying jobs.

Here is the list of the 20 metropolitan areas that are moving to the next phase (in alphabetical order):

- Atlanta, Ga.
- Austin, Texas
- Boston, Mass.
- Chicago, Ill.
- Columbus, Ohio
- Dallas, Texas
- Denver, Colo.
- Indianapolis, Ind.
- Los Angeles, Calif.
- Miami, Fla.
- Montgomery County, Md.
- Nashville, Tenn.
- Newark, N.J.
- New York City, N.Y.
- Northern Virginia, Va.
- Philadelphia, Pa.
- Pittsburgh, Pa.
- Raleigh, N.C.
- Toronto, Ontario
- Washington, D.C.

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Originally posted by Aeteocles:

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Originally posted by mark123:
I'm wondering why they chose all big cities. Wouldn't it make more sense to build warehouses and shipping stations in small towns outside of city limits? Lower property cost, less tax burden, lower cost workforce, etc.

Am I looking at it wrong?

Amazon is a tech company. It just happens that its tech makes internet retailing lucrative, but the core of its business has always been tech driven.

A second "headquarters" will likely be full of white collar type folks in HR, Advertising, Data Analytics, Software Engineers in Droves, and Management type folks. They've got hardware development that tries to compete with Apple and Google, they've got streaming services that competes with Netflix and Spotify, they're competing with Uber for on-demand driving services with their courier deliveries, and something like up to 70 percent of global internet traffic goes through one of Amazon's cloud computing farms. Even if you ignore the things that aren't retail related, the retailing business itself has thousands of people who won't ever schlep a package anytime during their day.

Shipping and whatnot is all done via regional and local warehouses. I've never received anything shipped directly from Seattle. They're going to locate their headquarters in places where Google, Apple, Uber, etc would locate their headquarters--because those are the places where the good employees are.