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Originally Posted by Atlanta3000
I am not trying to come onto an Austin sub-forum and talk up Atlanta, but I thought some of you find the data points in this article interesting. Note this article is from the Dallas Business Journal - not the Atlanta Business Chronicle.
Amazon HQ2 search: Dallas blows Austin away on this metric
Shawn Shinneman
By Staff Writer, Dallas Business Journal
Oct 11, 2017, 1:24pm CDT
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It's an interesting datapoint, and it certainly doesn't hurt Atlanta or Dallas.
I don't think it necessarily points to DC. I'm assuming Amazon isn't willing to pay those developers the premiums they're currently getting for security clearances.
Though again, the number that matters more isn't the workforce in Austin _today_, its the workforce in Austin 15 years from now (and later) when Amazon actually is hiring (maybe) those 50k (and when Austin is 50% larger than it is now).
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