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Originally Posted by west-town-brad
nah, I read on some blog that amazon wants to be near the "corridors of power" which apparently is somewhere near Washington D.C.
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Lol...yeah the same people who claim Bezos is going to be there because he has a mansion there. Life is a lot different when you are a multi billionaire. To be powerful in government, you don't need to live in DC if you have billions. There are arguably more powerful people living in NYC than DC in some ways. If this was really a big deal, you would have seen a bunch move to DC. It hasn't happened. I think the people who think these things don't truly understand that the world is different with those amounts of money and they think in terms of how they would do it if it was them on their money, not billions.
Bezos is going to put hq2 in an area that's best for the business. To influence DC, you don't have to live there. With his money, it really doesn't matter as much. He could snap his fingers and get a private jet right now. This isn't the common person needing to plan a trip to a city a month in advance. Life is much different down to travel from one place to another.