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Re:Amazon Asking Cities for Their High Schoolers' SAT Scores by Alex3917 on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @12:16PM (#16746184)
> My gut is telling me this is a metric to evaluate the education system for families to move there (or remain there).

Exactly. Their employees aren't going to want to move somewhere with bad school systems, even if SAT scores are largely just a measure of home prices. This doesn't strike me as being especially controversial.

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Re:Amazon Asking Cities for Their High Schoolers' SAT Scores by jbob2000 on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @12:55PM (#16746630)
Well they should cross Atlanta off their list then, Georgia is 31/50 for schools in the US.

Toronto is looking better now! We even have free Catholic schools!

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Re:Amazon Asking Cities for Their High Schoolers' SAT Scores by mikeash on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @12:57PM (#16746652)
Georgia is far more than just Atlanta. How does Atlanta itself rank?
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Re:Amazon Asking Cities for Their High Schoolers' SAT Scores by jbob2000 on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @01:14PM (#16746849)
It was tough finding a solid answer, but everywhere I looked, it was distinctly not in the top 10 or 20.
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Re:Amazon Asking Cities for Their High Schoolers' SAT Scores by johan_larson on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @01:19PM (#16746892)
Yay for large numbers of first-generation Chinese immigrants!
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Re:Amazon Asking Cities for Their High Schoolers' SAT Scores by harryVic on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @04:05PM (#16748579)
I don't think Toronto stands a chance. Americans would not move to Toronto because 1) Wages are much lower in Toronto and I don't see Amazon paying twice the prevailing wage. 2) Americans would have to pay taxes in both Canada and America.
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Re:Amazon Asking Cities for Their High Schoolers' SAT Scores by bhickey on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @06:04PM (#16749811)
> Americans would have to pay taxes in both Canada and America.

You deduct foreign tax payments on foreign earned income against your US tax bill. My assumption is that Canada has higher or comparable tax rates to the US which makes this a non-issue.

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Re:Amazon Asking Cities for Their High Schoolers' SAT Scores by jtbayly on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @09:24PM (#16751084)
If the taxes are higher it makes it an issue again. Only if they are the same or lower in Canada would this be a nonissue.
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