So how much of a chance does Dallas have in this? I feel like Dallas would give them a lot of things Seattle doesnt have. There is a shot load of relatively cheap land in Dallas. This is a good area for a tech company. Its not Silicon Valley, but they already have that in Seattle.
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Amazon looking to build a second HQ in North America, will add 50k jobs
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I know multiple people living in Windsor who work at Amazon in Detroit. Maybe hiring new people in Canada will get more difficult going forward, but they were already doing it at that location.
I know people do that, but the suggestion was that people could immigrate to Canada and then commute to the US to work, and I don't think that's gonna happen.
Dr.Guru of Peru
played the long game
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Have you ever crossed the border? Do you have any experience with any of this?
1) you need 5 years to acquire permanent residency. Source: what you just linked to.
2) people get pulled over and have their nexus revoked all the time. For the 1000th time, This is not the same thing as an nexpress card. This is an official document used to clear you for easier crossings by border security. Stop posting about the nexpress card, it has nothing to do with anything. Source: google what a nexus card is and what a nexpress card is.
3) you do interact with border security even with a nexus card. Source: google it.
4) even if you were right about anything. amazon is not going to set up their business based on a plan that requires their workers to secretly violate the terms of their work visas. Source: use your fucking head.
Nobody wants to live in the Midwest. Chicago and maybe Minneapolis are okay, but they've no match for the NE corridor or the west coast.
Source: Fled Indiana as soon as I got a job elsewhere.
Don't bother.
He spent all last night arguing with non-Detroiters that non-Detroiters don't think of Detroit as a massive abandoned junkyard.
We don't have the infrastructure for something like Amazon's HQ in Mexico, honestly.
Mexico City for now is unlikely to receive any large foreign investment, because of the earthquake.
Maybe Monterrey and Guadalajara, but Guadalajara would be too far.
Monterrey probably beats Guadalajara in infrastructure a bit, but it's still pretty far from other major American cities.
Tijuana would be a plausible candidate, thanks to being next to San Diego and L.A., but we have even less infrastructure here than in Monterrey and Guadalajara. Zero mass transit, for starters.
Chula Vista, the second largest city in San Diego County, is also getting serious about a bid and has promoted it's proximity to Mexico as a cultural and economic plus, but still being near a top tech city like San Diego.
In terms of bigger companies thats true. Pittsburgh has something more tho lol. It has a ton of startups that have gotten big. Like NoWait and a ton of random developers.
Zoe
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Sounds just like Austin.
The Bay Area? And yes, they have pitched for an Amazon HQ.
This is so desperate it's hilarious.
Same arguments as Detroit. Is this how all midwest cities with a small satellite office from a tech company see themselves?
Google has 22 offices in the US.
Intel has 61 offices in the US, none of which are in Pittsburgh. Were you confusing it for some Intel side project?
Apple is also in a shitload of cities across the US.
AbortedWalrusFetus
Member
This is my point. Tech is burgeoning in a ton of places. Pittsburgh is great but it's at a disadvantage in my eyes by being a smaller city. Every city in the NE, a few in the Midwest, and a few in the south have the same qualifications. That's writing off the west coast due to being too close to their existing HQ.
The list, factoring in geography, is Atlanta, Boston, DC, Philly. If you have the Midwest and south it's Austin, Dallas, Chicago, Cleveland and Detroit.
Recent events ruined this for Miami and Houston.