https://www.foxbusiness.com/business-leaders/amazon-pulls-out-of-nyc-headquarter
What I don't understand...especially after reading yours' and others' posts in the property tax thread last night, is why Amazon is even bothering with these "trendy" massive cities? The argument that the talent pool is higher there is shit. People need jobs whether they're high-paying or average. People from those areas will move to wherever the fuck Amazon decides to build. Amazon would save a shitload of money on operational and property costs while still offering the $150K they were planning for these high paying jobs for NYers in some currently rural area.
People would be applying left and right. In fact, more people would apply, because there are a ton of techies in the Silicon Prairie that would never consider moving to a place like NY. People from NY applying, might dislike the idea of moving to the midwest, but once they got there and realized that $150K/yr salary could buy a mini-mansion vs. an average apartment/home as well as it "spending better"; they'd be quite happy.
When Amazon's deal with USPS was announced years ago on top of contracts with all the other couriers, I told my dad who was in distribution; "just wait, in the near future Amazon will move toward eliminating them all by being their own logistics provider". It's been in motion for at least 3 years now. They have their own planes, trucks, delivery vehicles and vans, and now added a ton of delivery drivers. They massed mailed post cards for delivery driver positions last year in different parts of the midwest.
My prediction now is that Amazon will buy up enormous amounts of land in a somewhat remote area of Cali(only because of seaports), Nevada, the midwest, texas, great lakes area, and Florida. Then, someday in the next 10-15 yrs, they will build all their own airports while building huge warehouse/fulfillment/distribution centers near them, and then close all the others. They'll sell all all the land/buildings they currently own at a profit, save a ton on property and corporate taxes, and also increased profits from lower employee salaries vs. NY, over-populated parts of Cali, and WA. Book it!
If GB, and any of us are around you can quote this then, and I'll either look like mytradamus, or a mytdumass.
