Re:Amazon announces candidate cities for HQ2
by Grasshoppeh on Thursday January 18, 2018 @09:58AM
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Interesting, I would have still guessed Massachusetts due to the education system. If there goal is to make high paying jobs an educated population makes it much easier to find talent.
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Re:Amazon announces candidate cities for HQ2
by ghaff on Thursday January 18, 2018 @10:10AM
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Amazon is already building a pretty big facility (about 5K employees as I recall). The upside is certainly the universities and the fact that Massachusetts is already a significant tech hub, albeit in a somewhat different vein from Silicon Valley. The downside is land and CoL in the city is very expensive and traffic/transit congestion is already pretty bad.