Re:Amazon Pulls Out of Planned New York City Campus
by _grep_ on Friday February 15, 2019 @12:06PM
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Per capita, Northern Virginia is already the wealthiest area in the United States. Amazon will probably nudge it a little further into the lead.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-income_countie...
Re:Amazon Pulls Out of Planned New York City Campus
by bilbo0s on Friday February 15, 2019 @12:42PM
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That's income per capita, which is a little bit different than wealth.
There is no place, in the US, that rivals the wealth and power of NYC. Now internationally, that's where you start to get your Beijing's, and your London's, and your Tokyo's, and your Monte Carlo's, and your Paris, and Shanghai's etc. But in the US it's NYC at the center of the preponderance of wealth and power. Only place in a position to make a run at NYC is DC, and they'll need a lot more than Amazon to do it.
(There's also LA and Chicago, but those cities are not as "powerful", nowhere near as wealthy, and to be frank, making a run at NYC is not their ambition.)
You're suggesting that another city will generate money and wealth to rival NYC by getting a few Amazon jobs?
Frankly, that would not happen. Maybe if that other city was DC? But, yeah, probably not even then.