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There's a discussion on the Chicago forum about HQ2 for Amazon. So many cities made bids for it. If you were to relocate to work at the new Amazon location, which city do you hope they choose? Any cities you would completely rule out?
There's a discussion on the Chicago forum about HQ2 for Amazon. So many cities made bids for it. If you were to relocate to work at the new Amazon location, which city do you hope they choose? Any cities you would completely rule out?
Why are you addressing this to "young IT workers"?
My money is on the Raleigh-Durham area based on speaking with friends who work for Amazon in Seattle.
And that's would make sense. It's a pretty cheap place to live, has 4 seasons but does not get too cold, and there's plenty of space to build facilities and additional housing. Not to mention there are several excellent universities to draw from.
My hope is that it would be built somewhere that is affordable. One reason I'm confident that Amazon's HQ will never come to Boston (where I live now) is because Boston is approaching SF/NYC cost of living. Rent would be so high that many Amazon workers would have to commute from southern NH or Providence - not a great quality of living, especially working the hours Amazon demands.
Other areas I suspect would make for good consideration are Atlanta and St. Louis.
My money is on the Raleigh-Durham area based on speaking with friends who work for Amazon in Seattle.
And that's would make sense. It's a pretty cheap place to live, has 4 seasons but does not get too cold, and there's plenty of space to build facilities and additional housing. Not to mention there are several excellent universities to draw from.
My hope is that it would be built somewhere that is affordable. One reason I'm confident that Amazon's HQ will never come to Boston (where I live now) is because Boston is approaching SF/NYC cost of living. Rent would be so high that many Amazon workers would have to commute from southern NH or Providence - not a great quality of living, especially working the hours Amazon demands.
Other areas I suspect would make for good consideration are Atlanta and St. Louis.
The DFW area has high hopes for it but I don't see it happening.
If you're young right now, working at Amazon could be a good stepping stone job. Because like most big dotcom, it's a sweat shop. You'll be used and abused until you're fed up and then leave even if they stuff you with money it's not enough to counter the amount of tear and wear to your spirit and cost of living.
It doesn't matter where Amazon move to the cost of living in the surrounding area will jump and even skyrocket if a transit problem or housing shortage happens and workers will pay a fortune to be near it.
If you're young right now, working at Amazon could be a good stepping stone job. Because like most big dotcom, it's a sweat shop. You'll be used and abused until you're fed up and then leave even if they stuff you with money it's not enough to counter the amount of tear and wear to your spirit and cost of living.
It doesn't matter where Amazon move to the cost of living in the surrounding area will jump and even skyrocket if a transit problem or housing shortage happens and workers will pay a fortune to be near it.
EXACTLY!! this is what happen to parts of austin and they want them to come here as well. Just imagine a typical 300sq apt costing you $600 a month now, will increase to $2500 if they come here. LL are that greedy here and so are property managers for apt. Anything to make a quick buck but realizing that the job only pays $8 a hour.. Its like they price the market here thinking folks make $25+ a hour and when in reallity they dont make that combine incomes, but yet manage to find somebody that will pay the rent and struggles.
My money is on the Raleigh-Durham area based on speaking with friends who work for Amazon in Seattle.
I spoke with a high-level manager at the Amazon NYC office about a year ago and he mentioned that he was transferring to Raleigh-Durham so that's also one of my top picks too. I think most people would be okay relocating to Raleigh-Durham. I think Austin is another top contender. I'd be fine with either of those or pretty much any city in the Northeast.
I would not relocate to Atlanta, been there and done that, no thanks! I also would not relocate to any city in California. As far as weather is concerned, many of us enjoy a real Winter and Seattle already offers a temperate climate so don't rule out Northern cities based on weather. Minneapolis, Chicago or Denver would not surprise me and I'd gladly live in any of those cities.
You have to also consider that they'll likely relocate many of their current Seattle employees (and families) to HQ2 so it has to be a place where those employees will say, I'm cool with that.
I imagine we'll know the answer to the mystery relatively soon.
Last edited by flamadiddle; 01-13-2018 at 06:46 PM..
I very much doubt I'd ever work for Amazon. They're pretty well-known for being basically a sweatshop.
If I did work for them, I'd hope they opened HQ2 in a warm, sunny, low-tax state. San Francisco? Nope. Chicago? Uh-uh. Boston? No.
Your probably referring to the low end warehouse jobs not the IT jobs.
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