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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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