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Originally Posted by Pedestrian
The whole point of what they are doing is to make recruitment and hiring easier because there are not substantial numbers of unemployed/recruitable tech workers in Seattle (or the Bay Area or Austin or any of the better known tech centers) any more. A "smaller, more low key metro" wouldn't have that asset either--they'd have to recruit them elsewhere and induce them to move to the new campus and that's exactly what they are trying to avoid.
Therefore, besides NY and Washington, Boston/Cambridge is the only other obvious choice. You need either a very large population or a place with universities (preferably more than one) churning out STEM grads who might want an employment opportunity right in the same metro so they don't have to move away.
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There are plenty of places they could have gone besides NYC. Chicago, Atlanta, Dallas, and Los Angeles, also come to mind.