You’re being tremendously naive about this. There was never any chance of Amazon locating to St. Louis or whatever: NYC and DC were always the only options on t

You’re being tremendously naive about this. There was never any chance of Amazon locating to St. Louis or whatever: NYC and DC were always the only options on their radar. The entire “HQ2 search” malarkey was just to extract the maximum possible tax breaks from whichever one they chose.