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Re:Did New York Lose Anything with Amazon’s Rejection? It’s ... by eeeeeeeeeeeee on Friday February 15, 2019 @01:24PM (#19173346)
They can't easily go anywhere else, that's why they picked an established area with tons of talent already in the immediate area. Why didn't they choose some small city in the middle of America where salaries would be less, real estate would be cheaper, and taxes would be lower? Because there is very little technical talent already in those places.

Amazon did this to themselves with their tone deaf "national search" and if anything they proved to everyone that Amazon needs NY more than NY needs Amazon. Otherwise, they would have picked any of the other numerous smaller cities that were on the radar of the search, but were not chosen.

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Re:Did New York Lose Anything with Amazon’s Rejection? It’s ... by oh_sigh on Friday February 15, 2019 @03:14PM (#19174299)
> They can't easily go anywhere else

Clearly they can, if they this quickly pulled out of NY after the reception they received.

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Re:Did New York Lose Anything with Amazon’s Rejection? It’s ... by JetSpiegel on Friday February 15, 2019 @08:13PM (#19176322)
Why not just go with plan B all along and save political capital?

Instead they did the dog and pony show of shopping their Decision around, commited to NY and had to backtrack. You can't spin this as a plus for Bezos.

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