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Re:Amazon Plans to Split HQ2 in Two Locations: NY and VA by melling on Monday November 05, 2018 @11:42PM (#18388430)
3 million people work in Manhattan. What will an additional 25,000 people do to the real estate market?
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Re:Amazon Plans to Split HQ2 in Two Locations: NY and VA by Apocryphon on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @12:48AM (#18388696)
Many of the 25k being high-paid white collar professionals.
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Re:Amazon Plans to Split HQ2 in Two Locations: NY and VA by electricslpnsld on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @01:05AM (#18388767)
> Many of the 25k being high-paid white collar professionals.

Which is already a big chunk of NYC. Adding 25K tech folks into the current mass of financiers, hedge fund managers, and tech peeps in a city of 8.5 million isn't going to change much.

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