I'd love Calgary to get this, but
1: Being in Canada hurts our chances, and being relatively to close to Seattle really hurts our chances.
2: I don't see how we could compete with big metro US centers. Just taking one, Atlanta, the advantages are numerous. Cheaper cost of living than here, more nightlife and restaurants, the busiest airport in the world with direct flights to every major US cities and way more international destinations, a sprawling suburbia with lots of freeway capacity and land for Amazon to build the campus it wants, and existing companies in the area with lots of experience with logistics like UPS and Coca Cola.
Calgary gets beat on most of those counts, especially the airport. I believe the only US city on the east cost we get direct service to is NYC, and the only SE destinations are Florida vacation spots.
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