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Seattle needs to aggressively address the ridiculous single-family zoning issues before we end up like the Bay Area. The city's only real advantage over San Fra
by unionjack22 9y ago
Seattle needs to aggressively address the ridiculous single-family zoning issues before we end up like the Bay Area. The city's only real advantage over San Fran/Palo Alto is it's relative affordability for tech workers and the talent pool that AMZN pulls. Beyond that, Seattle has neither the VC money or the number of start-ups and aggressively growing companies to compete with the Bay Area. If we lose that comparative affordability then the talent and businesses will start moving to lower-cost of living cities like Denver/Boulder, Salt Lake City, and Atlanta. It's going to very interesting to see what happens when AMZN selects it's second HQ. Word is it's now between Atlanta and Denver.