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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
So it is entirely reasonable to discuss Calgary as a possible destination, because Calgary has two things that make it potentially hungry enough to make an aggressive bid: high current unemployment, and a need to diversify the economy.
Calgary has the youngest and most highly educated populace in Canada. And considering that Canada is better educated than the US in the aggregate, I think it is safe to assume that Calgary would compare favourably to most US cities in that regard as well.
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To most of cities of around a million, sure. But the are regions of the U.S. the size of southern Alberta that have a population of 10 or 12 million. In Canada, Southern Ontario has far more technically skilled workers than southern Alberta, in raw numbers.
And pretty much everywhere is desperately trying to diversify their economy these days.
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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
Also, Calgary is in the unique position that much of its well educated workforce is currently unemployed. Typically, the unemployed ranks are dominated by the unskilled and poorly educated. But Calgary currently has an army of engineers, professionals, and well trained people out of work. I doubt there is another city in NA in a comparable situation.
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Amazon doesn't need a lot of unemployed to draw from. They have no trouble at all attracting qualified employees in the ferociously competitive Seattle tech market, jostling elbows with giants like Microsoft and Boeing. Amazon is the kind of company that highly qualified applicants quit their current job to join, even knowing it's unlikely they'll last longer than a year or two.