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Originally Posted by LouisVanDerWright
While I agree with most of what you are saying this is a bit silly. It's hard to think of any place in the US more expensive than NYC. Piling Amazon on that will exasperate the problem.
This could go to another large metro that doesn't have an affordability problem like Chicago or Philly, and you wouldn't notice it at all. Chicago's bid is on a site larger than Hudson Yards which could single handedly contain all the jobs and apartments for workers without spilling into any surrounding neighborhood.
I don't get why Amazon picked two of the most expensive places in country for this. They brought these complaints on themselves. It's a case of out of the Seattle frying pan and into the NYC fire.
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We live in outrage culture. No matter where they moved there would be a small segment of people complaining. If they were to pick an affordable(or semi-affordable) place, people in those cities would be complaining that they are going to raise the prices of their once affordable city.
Big companies are the whipping boy of people, for better or worse.
Name one city where a small amount of people wouldn't be outraged by?