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Amazon would have been a financial boon to NYC according to all the analysis I've seen but it also would have increased living costs the way big tech companies do in other towns, including Seattle, so that a lot of people now living in NYC would no longer be able to afford to live there. Companies like this also increase homeless rates.
So it's all true. Amazon would have been a good thing for NYC and a bad thing for NYC.
A number of articles I've read point out that what Amazon has done was pretty much the same thing Google and other tech companies do when they open other offices. The difference was that Amazon did it very publicly and got themselves a lot of attention while the others do it more quietly.
I don't personally care if Amazon goes to New York. I wish the city well but they're pretty far down on the list of things I care about. I just hope they don't come here to Sheridan, Arkansas. It's a nice quiet little town and I like it that way.
Barry
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