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Originally Posted by Table 5
I've spent my fair share of time in the state, and I think the only way Jersey has a shot is if they set up in a place like Jersey City (directly across the river from NYC).
Apart from the crazy high taxes of Jersey, the best people in that area tend to huddle around NYC, and want to be in an urban setting. You don't want to hang out in any "urban setting" in Jersey, and nobody wants to commute to some remote part of Jersey from NYC...but they would across the river.
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I would agree with this. Newark provides the logistical strength but Jersey City provides the other accoutrements they are looking for.
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Originally Posted by MarchHare
What makes you think prospective Amazon employees would want to live in the suburbs? Their current Seattle HQ is downtown, and there's a whole swath of condos that were recently built in the area so employees could live near their workplace. The HQ2 RFP specifically mentioned that the bidding cities require good cycling, pedestrian, and transit infrastructure, and the type of young tech workers Amazon will be recruiting tend to prefer downtown living over the suburban lifestyle.
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Not saying where they would want to live, except to say that suggesting a whole city is a dump is joke. I guess we can take Calgary out of the running because Bowness, Dover and Victoria Park are armpits? No, because the people will go where the nice places are, or the nice places will be built near the Amazon campus, like they were in Seattle.
On the subject of where they would want to live, statistics in the United States clearly show there is an exodus to the 'burbs, even with gentrification efforts in cities around the country. People will go where they can afford to live, and affords them a particular lifestyle. Since most people have kids, and parents want their kids to have access to good schools, the trend is to go to where those good schools are - the 'burbs. Median age for an Amazon employee is 31 years of age, so there are plenty of workers who will be in those child rearing years and want to set their kids up for a good education. I can't really speak to the Amazon set, but the Intel in Arizona has driven up the cost of real estate in several of the bedroom communities. It will be interesting to see what effect the new hq2 has on the city that wins. 50,000 people cannot just be dropped in the middle of a city. There will be expansion in the outlying suburban areas needed.