Amazon HQ2 finalists should refuse tax breaks, say nearly 100 economists

Re:Amazon HQ2 finalists should refuse tax breaks, say nearly... by flipfloppity on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @12:12PM (#16275413)

IMHO the biggest issue for some of the smaller cities is attracting talent. Good luck getting top notch twenty-something engineers to move to Indy when all of their buddies are in SF, NYC, Boston, etc. Guess I'll eat my words if HQ2 ends up being in the midwest, but this seems like an insurmountable hurdle for the little guys.

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Re:Amazon HQ2 finalists should refuse tax breaks, say nearly... by softawre on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @12:28PM (#16275550)

Indy has Rose Hulman and Purdue, both of which pump out pretty good software engineers. Are they on par with the SV types? Maybe not, but you're not paying them 300k either.

For what it's worth, I live in Indy and I get emails from Amazon every week trying to get me to work somewhere fairly close to here (like Detroit).

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Re:Amazon HQ2 finalists should refuse tax breaks, say nearly... by padobson on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @07:41PM (#16278874)

Indy has Rose Hulman and Purdue

University of Illinois has top notch CS grads too, pretty close to Indy. Seems like the most likely reason they made the list.

Indy also has underrated infrastructure - having to host the massive event that is the Indy 500 every year has given the city experience in dealing with large influxes of travelers.

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Re:Amazon HQ2 finalists should refuse tax breaks, say nearly... by kilotaras on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @12:32PM (#16275588)

And that's where those H1B come in.

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Re:Amazon HQ2 finalists should refuse tax breaks, say nearly... by tzahola on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @01:02PM (#16275920)

“top notch twenty-something”

LoL

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