I'm really hoping they'll choose southern NH, where I live. You get most of the advantages of Boston, somewhat lower cost of living, and an opposite commute from what typically happens now. I'm not interested in working for Amazon and would like to leave the area, so it would make it easier to sell my house...

Southern New Hampshire realistically wouldn't be a terrible spot. Manchester has phenomenal infrastructure, an airport, and the space to support the growth. I hope that they take your suggestion.

Part of the purpose is probably to get access to the talent pool in another part of the country. I suspect cost of living is less of a factor than access to engineers.

Not everyone wants to move to the Bay Area. I for one am one of those people.

My own employer is HQ'd in the Bay Area, and without their office being here they'd be missing out on my meager skillset.

The same is true of most of my coworkers; they don't want to live in the Bay Area. Some did a tour in the Bay to get a good name on their resume, but they've paid their dues and now want to live where they want to live.

> Not everyone wants to move to the Bay Area.

Amazon is headquartered in Seattle, not the Bay. I think they have some tiny satellite office in Palo Alto.

Amazon has thousands of employees in the Bay. Nobody’s going to hire tens of thousands of software engineers in the US and ignore the Bay completely. It has too much of the top talent.