The civic angle is interesting though, will pressure groups succeed in reining back the usual massive concessions that local governments usually grant corporate behemoths? Or will it be business as usual where the giant tosses a few shiny wampum beads to the locals while destroying their livelihoods?
NCR, a new Tech tower, perhaps something new around BellSouth, Metlife at 17th street... Atlanta has almost twice as many people as Seattle, and unlike a sleepy coffee town has always been dominated by corporate culture. Even if Amazon moved their whole company here, it wouldn't change the city that much.
I mean... this isn’t how price comparisons work? You can rent a studio on Peachtree in Midtown for $1,000 a month if it isn’t “swanky”. It probably has the same square footage as that $2,500 “1 bedroom” in Manhattan. Living in a city isn’t cheap.
That doesn't make much sense to me.
(I don't want to own a car again; MARTA, being a good public transit option that is taken by people across the socioeconomic spectrum and so there's political weight on the side of keeping it good, makes Atlanta one of few American cities where that's potentially tenable.)
"Everyone's costs will increase, and since I don't own property, my costs will increase even higher than most others peoples costs rise"
It's totally rational to not want to take a paycut, and Amazon HQ2 will effectively be a massive pay cut to every non-Amazon person in whatever city Amazon uses for HQ2
My father has property here so I'm sure he'll be fine.