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Texas in general is overrated. I've said this a million times on here but no one on the east coast even talks about Texas. It literally was not until I started reading this board that I saw people ever mention Texas.
Apparently you're in a bubble.
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That's not to say Dallas, Houston and Austin aren't nice places but let's not kid ourselves pretending it's in the same league as the NYCs or Chicagos of the world.
No one ever made that claim but to be dismissive of the growth that's happening there is pretty silly.
I see a trend in the data and I believe Amazon is using the trend to group cities for bidding. Does it seem reasonable to group the cities by the embedded data?
The group listing for the 20 cities is embedded in the short list. The first two groups are capital cities and non-capital cities. The third group is embedded in the non-capital cities group called capital analogs.
Group A (capital cities)
Atlanta, Austin, Boston, Columbus, Denver, Indianapolis, Nashville, Raleigh, Toronto, Washington D.C.
Group B (capital analogs)
Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, Montgomery County, Northern Virginia, New York City, Newark
Group C (non-capitals)
Dallas, Pittsburgh
I pick Dallas over Pittsburgh
I suppose the next limiting factor would be water resources for the remaining cities. What do you think?
Amazon has already been very specific about their requirements, why not base your groupings on that? I don't see the reason being a capital city would be much of a factor. Same goes for water resources.
By the way, Northern Virginia and Montgomery County are simply the suburban areas surrounding DC. They are no different than any other suburbs around major cities. Although they are separated by state lines, for your sort of groupings all 3 should be put together. You could call it "DC Metro (includes DC, Nova and Montgomery County)"
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All the New Yorkers and Californians I meet in Austin everyday would tell that poster how Austin is in the "zeitgeist" of the national conscience right now.
Re: the possible factor of being near a medical research center.
If being near medical research centers is important, DC area has more than you might realize. Janelia Research Center is only 9 miles from the CIT center in Reston/Herndon (Northern VA proposed site, and the NIH is only 4 miles from White Flint Mall (the Montgomery County proposed site).
Amazon has already very specific about their requirements, why not based your groupings on that? I don't see the reason being a capital city would be much of a factor. Same goes for water resources.
By the way, Northern Virginia and Montgomery County are simply the suburban areas surrounding DC. area. They are no different than any other suburbs around major cities. Although they are separated by state lines, for your sort of groupings all 3 should be put together. You could call it "DC Metro (includes DC, Nova and Montgomery County)"
I've tried to talk to that poster but he/she doesn't have a clue. He's trying to use statistics like the data set is random, but it's not. That's the first mistake you can make in statistics. Once you have knowledge of the criteria then it ceases becoming random and becomes linear. I hope he's not a recent graduate as that means people are failing to understand mathematical concepts.
I've heard that Austin has a bar district downtown and hosts live music. Can any of the other contenders claim these amenities?
I also have it on good authority that Austin, is in fact, "cool" from some C-D posters so lets consider that.
I don't think any CD posters feel that way? It's probably the most hated city on this board, wouldn't you say? I haven't heard anyone chime in on this thread or the General US forum for Austin, at least not in an over the top way.
No one ever made that claim but to be dismissive of the growth that's happening there is pretty silly.
That's the thing, Austinites don't want to be the next New York or Chicago. Those citizens are actually pretty anti-growth. I don't think Dallas or Houston are the same.
I've heard that Austin has a bar district downtown and hosts live music. Can any of the other contenders claim these amenities?
I also have it on good authority that Austin, is in fact, "cool" from some C-D posters so lets consider that.
It definitely excels in the percentage of bars where you can drink beer in converted gas stations while eating tacos from taco trucks and hanging with a bunch of dudes with the same bro hipster hair
No city can compare on that metric it wins
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