Amazon and housing

[barnaby33]

Oh the irony! NYC invented the hipster.

[FlyerInHi]

[quote=The-Shoveler]I would not move to Detroit even if Google offered me a Job there LOL.

I still say Riverside LOL.[/quote]

I’m rooting for LA. West LA will get the exeutives and Riverside will get the back office.
The LA basin is huge with plenty of opportunities for Amazon to hire the people they need.

I’m surprised Phoenix was not included.

No surprise Florida didn’t make the list because of hurricanes and global warming.

[moneymaker]

My guess would be Dallas, Austin Tx or Atlanta. Atlants is where UPS is headquatered, Austin is Whole foods HQ, and Dallas is decent weather lots of land, airport,cheap labor? Texas what’s not to like, way cheaper than CA. Disclaimer- I’ve never lived in Texas.

[spdrun]

I’m rooting against NYC. Stay out. We have bad weather, high taxes, congested airports, aging infrastructure, rude people, little space to build out.

Texas is much, much nicer and can better absorb hipsters and their gentrifying, price-gouging businesses.

[FlyerInHi]

I want LA to win. We want money, money, money for CA

[spdrun]

Money doesn’t do you much good if you also have to spend more of it, and if local businesses catering to non-hipsters go under.

[FlyerInHi]

I think the hipster is passé especially with regard to indie music.
Now, we have the global citizens who do support independent businesses. In fact chain restaurants such as TGIF Friday’s are losing sales.

I would rather the money goes to global citizens on the coasts than suburban dwellers in pastiche places such as Frisco, TX.

[spdrun]

Nah, you have chains catering to hipsters who don’t want to admit they’re hipsters. Some of which even pride themselves on being “cash free.” (aka privacy free)

Translation: if you’re from the socioeconomic class that’s part of the cash economy, stay out.

[njtosd]

Poor Detroit.

[The-Shoveler]

[quote=FlyerInHi][quote=The-Shoveler]I would not move to Detroit even if Google offered me a Job there LOL.

I still say Riverside LOL.[/quote]

I’m rooting for LA. West LA will get the exeutives and Riverside will get the back office.
The LA basin is huge with plenty of opportunities for Amazon to hire the people they need.

I’m surprised Phoenix was not included.

No surprise Florida didn’t make the list because of hurricanes and global warming.[/quote]

I think LA has a good chance at getting The new HQ.

If LA gets it I think they will finally add mass-transit that works, right now it is a PITB to get anywhere in LA (unless you work for the city of LA of course).

[NotCranky]

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180118005771/en/Amazon-Announces-Candidates-HQ2

[FlyerInHi]

We will see but, I’m thinking Amazon will want an urban setting, not a 1980/1990s style corporate campus

Washington to Amazon: How urban do you want to be?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/washington-to-amazon-how-urban-do-you-want-to-be/2018/02/08/01332440-0843-11e8-8777-2a059f168dd2_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-cards_hp-card-business2%3Ahomepage%2Fcard&utm_term=.007dba80854b

[The-Shoveler]

The problem with putting very large companies in Urban settings instead of corporate campuses is it makes it very expensive and disruptive to scale up when you need to.

Myself I would not want to work in anything over two or three floors (or where you need an elevator to get from one place to another within the company).

IMO trying put everything in one spot is a bad idea in general. I don’t know why anyone is trying to revive it.

[FlyerInHi]

Tony Hsieh said that serendipitous collisions enhances creativity. That’s why he relocated Zappos from the Vegas suburbs to the old city hall downtown.

Both McDonald’s and GE relocated to the city.

I think suburbia was to provide housing for the middle class (as distinguished from the merchant and upper class prior to WWII).

Technology has improved condo and apartment housing in the city and we now see suburbia densifying.

Nothing is static. The urban architecture changes over time.

[FlyerInHi]

So Trump bitches about Amazon. Another example of longing for the old economy instead of embracing the new economy and make it work for everyone.

I remodeled my loft garage at age 14 so I remember well the day before Home Depot and Amazon. It was such a pain back then. You had to pay exhorbitant prices and track down stuff from dealers who had to buy from distibutors. Then you had do look at paper catalogs for what you wanted. Only people in the trades knew what was available.

Now thanks to the Net, everyone has access to the best products at a direct to consumer prices. Our standards of living have improved so much. Mass production and an efficient world wide supply chain have been such gifts to humanity.

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