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maxsolomon

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3. If you don't want 50K new jobs to come to your downtown

Reply to Henry Krinkle (Original post)

Wed Oct 25, 2017, 01:49 PM

Oct 2017

You aren't a young person graduating college. The new Amazon Campus is a plum for any Pol.

Traffic sucks everywhere, and public transportation sucks because it's historically underfunded and has to share the road with cars and trucks.

Boston isn't the target. Neither is Austin - as you said, the cost of living is high and getting higher, and Amazon is specifically looking for the opposite. STOP BEING NIMBYs.

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Amazon recives 238 bids for its planned HQ2... [View all] Henry Krinkle Oct 2017 OP

Cleveland Ohio has a unique situation. Kleveland Oct 2017 #1

I'm with you! Texasgal Oct 2017 #2

If you don't want 50K new jobs to come to your downtown maxsolomon Oct 2017 #3

Denver is in there, too. Laffy Kat Oct 2017 #4

So, you won't get it. maxsolomon Oct 2017 #5

Vegas has put its bid too WilmywoodNCparalegal Oct 2017 #6