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Re:Amazon HQ2: Advanced talks about second headquarters in N... by ttul on Saturday November 03, 2018 @12:00PM (#18370828)
And to its credit, Crystal City is actually pretty rad. It’s full of highly educated people who can’t say where they work or what they do. But they do have good taste in restaurants.
Re:Amazon HQ2: Advanced talks about second headquarters in N... by rhino369 on Saturday November 03, 2018 @12:16PM (#18370937)
My biggest complaint about crystal city is that the restaurants are pretty bad. One one's above the Crystal City Shops are mostly chains you find wherever business hotels. And the ones on 23rd street are just mostly bad.

If I were going to work in HQ2, I'd live in Del Ray, though its more single-family focused. But it has some nice local restaurants.

Re:Amazon HQ2: Advanced talks about second headquarters in N... by rdtsc on Saturday November 03, 2018 @06:52PM (#18372948)
I don't know. Compared to other areas around the country maybe. But with NoVA there are just better places. I remember going there twice maybe and just never had a reason to go back Crystal City.

Tons of empty office space for sure though. I think proximity to DC itself is probably the main selling point.

Re:Amazon HQ2: Advanced talks about second headquarters in N... by ttul on Monday November 05, 2018 @11:13AM (#18383452)
Absolutely. Government is a huge customer for AWS. Being literally walking distance to the Pentagon is valuable.