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Re:Amazon Plans to Split HQ2 in Two Locations: NY and VA by rajeshpant on Monday November 05, 2018 @10:16PM (#18388043)
You are missing a point. every 1 regular job creates 3 non-regular jobs in the market. New businesses like restaurants, coffee shops etc will created which will boost local economy.
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Re:Amazon Plans to Split HQ2 in Two Locations: NY and VA by partiallattice on Monday November 05, 2018 @10:46PM (#18388178)
Even still, that's only 100k jobs. There's already more than 4 million jobs in the city alone. A 2.5% increase in jobs is just not going to change that much. Cyclical employment changes alone are much, much larger than that.
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Re:Amazon Plans to Split HQ2 in Two Locations: NY and VA by bradleyjg on Monday November 05, 2018 @10:37PM (#18388133)
Have you been to LIC recently? It’s not like it’s bereft of coffee shops right now.

Posters are here are making the same posts as they would have made if this article was about Akron. But NYC is not Akron, even if it happens to be NYC across the East River.

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Re:Amazon Plans to Split HQ2 in Two Locations: NY and VA by wpietri on Monday November 05, 2018 @10:18PM (#18388058)
I would like to see the math on that. The proportion seems impossible to me.
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Re:Amazon Plans to Split HQ2 in Two Locations: NY and VA by hyperpape on Monday November 05, 2018 @10:43PM (#18388165)
It’s debated, of course: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_multiplier_effect
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