Yep, it's completely impossible for businesses to exist outside of Seattle, which is why the rest of the country is such a desolate wasteland of economic strife.
It is a desolate wasteland of economic strife. Why do you think 240 cities threw billions at Amazon? The culture has to be replicated, which most of America is not willing to do.
All those poor, broke cities like New York, Chicago, Denver, Miami, Pittsburgh, Austin, Los Angeles, man they look to Seattle like a shining beacon of economic prosperity and liberal ideas.
If only New York had the kind of money that Seattle does, then things would be different.
Yeah there is a lot of money in New York. It is all dead money sitting in accounts and low risk investments. There is no new money being generated. Amazon feeds off of growth, not having wealth. Growth wise, those areas are doing...what exactly? Trying to get their politicians to get Amazon to put an HQ there. Having money is not a business.
> dead money sitting in accounts and low risk investments
and real estate.
Real estate costs alone should probably strike most of them from the list. Not just for Amazons cost for building but their workforce will need to live somewhere and house costs are generally high in the candidate cities. But I guess if SV is an example, people don't consider living expenses when choose a place to live.
