Amazon expected to announce NYC and Northern Virginia as new headquarters

Re:Amazon expected to announce NYC and Northern Virginia as ... by jowiar on Monday November 12, 2018 @10:12PM (#18438178)

Taking the slider to the other extreme, you end up with company towns everywhere, and there are a whole lot of burned out husks of civilization that are memories to that.

Until we truly solve remote, there will be some concentration. And there's value to that as an employee. If your employer goes kaput, or you're stagnating in your career, or you have an abusive boss, there are plenty of opportunities available, and enough of them that one shock to the system won't break the local economy.

Of course, the flip side of that is that real estate values go through the roof.

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Re:Amazon expected to announce NYC and Northern Virginia as ... by hueving on Monday November 12, 2018 @10:48PM (#18438412)

>Taking the slider to the other extreme, you end up with company towns everywhere

Why would you go to the other extreme? There are hundreds of large cities around the US that could easily headquarter these big companies and not become company towns.

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Re:Amazon expected to announce NYC and Northern Virginia as ... by jowiar on Monday November 12, 2018 @11:26PM (#18438588)

Hundreds is a stretch. When you get down to the hundredth-largest city you’re at Des Moines, population 217k. At that point, if the company were to say “zero our taxes or we leave”, the city would do as told.

How small can a city be and have a healthy relationship with an employer of 25,000?

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Re:Amazon expected to announce NYC and Northern Virginia as ... by api on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @09:11AM (#18449912)

These kinds of demands for special treatment need to be made illegal. That would help.

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