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Re:Google Plans Large New York City Expansion by kamaal on Thursday November 08, 2018 @06:56AM (#18405677)
>>Companies don't want to establish new offices in cities where they cannot attract new talent or there isn't a large existing base of talent.

Bangalore had this problem in the 80's and 90's. The way you beat is, surprising simple.

You just start building colleges and other institutions and make it cheap and easy to study there.

All of a sudden you have a massive pool of young, and hungry people. Then you do things like tax subsidies, and land grants.

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Re:Google Plans Large New York City Expansion by throwawaymath on Thursday November 08, 2018 @09:08AM (#18406304)
I hate to be that guy, but if it’s this simple why hasn’t it been done?

And anticipating a specific class of answer: is it always political deadlock in America, or is there something more fundamental that would prevent this from working?

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Re:Google Plans Large New York City Expansion by redblacktree on Thursday November 08, 2018 @09:44AM (#18406532)
To some extent, it has been done. There are a lot of great public institutions of higher education throughout the country. I live in Indianapolis. It's not exactly an economic wasteland.
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