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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]read a great article that said in summary - Amazon played all these cities. It got local governments to promise billions in taxpayer dollars to one of the wealthies companies in the world & Amazon had them spending money to compile valuable data about the locales that it can use for its business. They forced governments, which implicitly have a duty of transparency to citizens, to sign NDAs and keep the info secrect.

They held out the dream of possibly bringing jobs to areas that desperately needed them & SPLIT the jobs between areas that would be OK w/o them. Do the 2 areas get to revise their bids & lower them by half to reflect half the jobs going to another area?

NOVA will be a mess. Traffic is already a mess, metro is unreliable & the housing market is already moving out of reach. This past weekend, Metro had the great idea to close the entire Metro subway stop starting Friday - on a holiday weekend - delaying traffic around the airport for miles. It was poorly advertised. Even flight crews were delayed & people were getting out in the rain walking to the airport from the jammed traffic.

[b]Be grateful that MoCo dodged a bullet as the taxpayers of Virginia will be footing the bill for years to come. [/b]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.marketwatch.com/amp/story/guid/F14E6ADA-B5C2-11E7-B859-4A9090A04A23  
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It was Maryland promising the billions with a capital "S." Virginia inked this deal with half the incentives NYC offered Amazon, and will be paying less than half per new HQ2 worker compared to Queens. Keep dodging those bullets, MoCo...[/quote]

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