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Personally I think a Canadian city will win. Simply because we have a large, educated workforce that can't simply move to the US. Although, I will add, the im

Personally I think a Canadian city will win. Simply because we have a large, educated workforce that can't simply move to the US. Although, I will add, the immigration benefits here are over-stated, we've always had more controls on immigration than the US has, and we still do.

daveguy 9y ago
I don't know about that. Can you imagine the hissy fit trump would throw if Amazon put 5 billion into a city outside of the US? He already doesn't like Bezos because of WaPo. I'm surprised he hasn't already tweeted a threat about it.
- s73ver_ 9y ago
  Trump's tweets aren't enough to have an effect on business, anymore.
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- Mikeb85 9y ago
  Then why not hedge your bets? Also, it's not like moving to Canada is ever done to skirt laws, avoid taxes or outsource. It's done to find talent, see Ubisoft Montreal, EA Vancouver, there's an IBM campus a few blocks away from me right now, a few other companies also have a presence here.
pesfandiar 9y ago
Hear, hear! I'd love to see more tech jobs in Canada to put an upward pressure on salaries. That said... > workforce that can't simply move to the US Or won't. Maximizing income is not always the top priority for workers. There's a plethora of reasons why Canadian residents would want to live there beside inability to move to the US.
dugditches 9y ago
There's though that they won't chose a Canadian city due to wanting to not lose favor with America's Gov't. Especially with the complexity of Amazon dealing with the Gov't.
jagger27 9y ago
I know it's a pipe dream but I want to see Ottawa's Central Experimental Farm sold to Amazon. Where else do you have over 4km^2 of farmland in the core of a million person city? It's barely 10 minutes from the airport, about the same to downtown, a couple hundred metres from light rail, right next to Carleton University. The list goes on.
- wavefunction 9y ago
  >>Where else do you have over 4km^2 Under your scenario it would be "where else _did_ you have" that much farmland near Ottawa. While I am biased, it's better for the city to preserve farmland. Especially long-term, as climate changes. Y'all might need that farmland. Or at least your grand-children might.

daveguy 9y ago

I don't know about that. Can you imagine the hissy fit trump would throw if Amazon put 5 billion into a city outside of the US? He already doesn't like Bezos because of WaPo. I'm surprised he hasn't already tweeted a threat about it.

s73ver_ 9y ago
Trump's tweets aren't enough to have an effect on business, anymore.
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Mikeb85 9y ago
Then why not hedge your bets? Also, it's not like moving to Canada is ever done to skirt laws, avoid taxes or outsource. It's done to find talent, see Ubisoft Montreal, EA Vancouver, there's an IBM campus a few blocks away from me right now, a few other companies also have a presence here.

pesfandiar 9y ago

Hear, hear! I'd love to see more tech jobs in Canada to put an upward pressure on salaries. That said... > workforce that can't simply move to the US Or won't. Maximizing income is not always the top priority for workers. There's a plethora of reasons why Canadian residents would want to live there beside inability to move to the US.

dugditches 9y ago

There's though that they won't chose a Canadian city due to wanting to not lose favor with America's Gov't. Especially with the complexity of Amazon dealing with the Gov't.

jagger27 9y ago

I know it's a pipe dream but I want to see Ottawa's Central Experimental Farm sold to Amazon. Where else do you have over 4km^2 of farmland in the core of a million person city? It's barely 10 minutes from the airport, about the same to downtown, a couple hundred metres from light rail, right next to Carleton University. The list goes on.

wavefunction 9y ago
>>Where else do you have over 4km^2 Under your scenario it would be "where else _did_ you have" that much farmland near Ottawa. While I am biased, it's better for the city to preserve farmland. Especially long-term, as climate changes. Y'all might need that farmland. Or at least your grand-children might.