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Maryland's incentive package for Amazon measured in the billions of dollars
- Thread starter KSweeley
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Fried Food
Banned
Come to Rochester NY! ignore the fact that I have to tell the state!
How does a city that's 46% immigrants from other countries get "more boring" with them present?
how do you manage to do this thing where you are simultaneously extremely disingenuous but also like intensely oblivious
They're probably hoping Amazon's vote of confidence would lead to decades of renewal and other companies will move in. In a sense, Maryland is happy to pay for Amazon's ticket if they're bringing friends along.
facetheslayer92
Member
Ill eat my sneakers raw if Amazon builds HQ2 in South Baltimore.
50,000 jobs at a company like Amazon brings a lot of friends along.
I'm willing to bet a lot of people are secretly okay with that happening.
They own property and want to sell high and move somewhere cheaper?
GillianSeed79
Member
How much of these tax breaks are going to passed on to Maryland resident? I live in PA now temporarily, but will be moving to my new home in MD relatively soon. State income taxes in PA are half of they are in MD. It's kind of crazy. Taxes are the big things I hate about living in MD but hey at least we have a lot of services and are a blue state/progressive. Also isn't Hogan a fiscal conservative?
Suikoguy
I whinny my fervor lowly, for his length is not as great as those of the Hylian war stallions
Then why the fuck did you bring it up at all?
I mean, how else should anyone have taken that comment?
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Hello? This is Hailun!
Member
Hope they come to Austin. Amazon + the rumored MLS stadium/team would be awesome.
Amazon would probably build in the tech park about 15 miles from my suburb.
Amazon would probably build in the tech park about 15 miles from my suburb.
demosthenes
Member
That Buffalo - Rochester bid looking good.
There's a joint Buffalo-Rochester bid going, what do you mean?
His point is that the immigrants would have to move out to accommodate the gentrifying white libertarian STEM employees moving in.
I think he means people wouldn't know where Rochester is without saying it's in New York. It's not a big-name city.
Only if you don't adequately develop housing in the area, which is a big reason they're ditching Seattle in the first place.
There is a difference between actual immigrants from other countries and recent CS grads from two states over, as you and kirblar know perfectly well.
No kidding. You want a giant, soulless corporation to swoop in, swell the city core with a disproportionately white and extremely wealthy group of people, and effectively destroy any semblance of unique lifestyles or cultures that once existed there?
Trust me on this, what Amazon has done to Seattle has been disastrous to just about every cool thing in the city. South Lake Union has turned into a gigantic, sterile, corporate hellscape bereft of any life after about 6PM. The only people benefiting from this are people who already own homes - people who are typically old, white, and wealthy. It is destroying the demographic diversity of our city.
The modern architecture drains any sense of style and culture out of the area, drives long-time mom and pop businesses like family restaurants and quirky boutique shops out of the area, and effectively makes it completely uninhabitable for people not working at Amazon.
:lol
It's shocking how accurate that season has been, and how true it rings in Seattle today.
Redmond was once far removed from Seattle's local housing economy. The geography of the region separats the Eastside (Remond/Kirkland/Bellevue - the former tech core) from Seattle city proper. It remained affordable for most people until Amazon really started exploding in size.
I have been here since the early 00's (born in Redmond, spent some of my childhood in Alaska, and then moved back) and what has happened to the city is, frankly, a disaster.
A sleepy town full of quirky people and neat stuff has been completely sterilized by Amazon's stratospheric rise to power.
It's incredibly sad to witness. Most people who work for me commute from Tacoma or Everett - brutal either way. Most people who work in the city make less than those who work for me. I can't even afford to live in the city proper, and I'm in management.
I'm sure they are! They're exactly the kind of people who are compounding the problem because of their relentless NIMBYism... Old, wealthy (usually home or land owning) white folk who are extremely happy to have an almost exclusively white, wealthy group of young working professionals come in and sweep out all of the riffraff, and balloon their housing values to mind boggling sums.
It's sickening.