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Originally Posted by Novacek
So if city A has 100k appropriately trained and educated workers, and city B has the exact same workers, but they work for 1000 different companies, city A is automatically better?
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This is the fundamental problem with the way you are looking at this. City B has
more companies and
more workers. That's the point. Austin does not have as many trained professionals as these other cities in a large part because there aren't as many jobs requiring trained professionals.
When Amazon says, "Metro Size will be an important factor" they mean that in a general sense that they want to be in a bigger city. They don't mean, "Any advantage that a city has in any area will be weighed down because the advantage is due in part because they have a larger metro area."
They aren't requiring huge metros but they aren't going to be issuing handicaps if bigger cities score better in different metrics.
You and I are not making any progress here. I can go back and respond to your last post bit by bit if you would appreciate that but we should pick this up when we hear the next bit of news. If Austin is in that list of cities that Amazon starts negotiating with then I will gladly admit I must have been wrong about some things. I hope you can do the same if Austin doesn't make the cut.
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