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Originally Posted by Skyguy_7
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Amazon HQ2 is going to New York and Virginia. It will be split evenly between Long Island City in Queens and Crystal City in northern Va. Sad, but a wise decision to stay away from our shithole state.
There was mention, however, that Amazon is looking to build "major sites" in several other cities. So everybody gets a trophy.  |
The two largest offices for Amazon, outside of Seattle, are in the NYC and DC areas. They weren't going to choose Chicago...this was about extracting incentives for what is essentially an office expansion. It has nothing to do with taxes, regulations, bureaucracy, or whatever warped reason self-deprecating Illinoisans may dream up for why Chicago didn't get picked. There is no way in hell that Queens, of all places, is less corrupt, less regulated, and less complicated in terms of bureaucracy than Chicago.
As for shithole state...you must be confused since that's clearly Indiana (or Michigan which is resembles New York circa 1989). I'd say Ohio but that would be an insult to shitholes.