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New York is definitely a world-class city, but Amazon had the opportunity to attract talent to make a city that is not currently a world-class city into one but
by jeron 8y ago
New York is definitely a world-class city, but Amazon had the opportunity to attract talent to make a city that is not currently a world-class city into one but instead selected an already established one
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- sib 8y agoAmazon's already had to go through the growing pains of doing that once (in Seattle) and probably learned that they didn't want to do it again.
- JumpCrisscross 8y ago> Amazon had the opportunity to attract talent to make a city that is not currently a world-class city into one Not really. Big cities operate at scales and complexities far above what Amazon can bring. Density begets density. Meanwhile, that cities have largely been built—and remained—in similar places (protected harbours with navigable rivers and ideally shallow bedrock) implies there are deeper reasons for why density exists where it does.
- stochastic_monk 8y agoI’m not sure about that. Amazon turned Seattle into a truly big city, which it wasn’t before.
- secfirstmd 8y agoEh, Microsoft and Boeing?
- stochastic_monk 8y agoI lived in Seattle for a few years, as Amazon expanded. Traffic and housing exploded during that time. Boeing and Microsoft had their large facilities outside of Seattle proper, which I think minimized their effects on the city itself compared to Amazon.
- kkhire 8y agodifference is, NYC has all the talented MBAs, engineers and other smart people who will work 60+ hours a week already. that kind of culture just isn't present in many other cities