> I'll turn your argument around and say that the only truly location-dependent industries are extraction based. Everything else moves where the people are. I

> I'll turn your argument around and say that the only truly location-dependent industries are extraction based. Everything else moves where the people are. I don't think I would call the transportation industry (as in: ports, trains, planes, and related infrastructure) "extraction based". But that is an example of something very clearly location-dependent.