I have many relatives in the Bay Area. Seemingly more so than in LA, the people there are unusually googly (no pun intended) eyed about NYC. I'm not quite sure where this fascination comes from--perhaps a need to feel that their business is as legitimate and globally important as anything on Wall St.
When the smoke clears and the cost to maintain such a huge campus comes to bear, I have a hard time believing they will maintain such a huge workforce in NYC when they can achieve the exact same results employing thousands of people elsewhere. I'm not saying they will come to Chicago, but perhaps somewhere down south.
But in the meantime, I'm wagering that they are far from being done expanding in Chicago--you can really ramp up hiring in Chicago without it being so costly.
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