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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Oh look. The provinces are having some kind of a competition. How quaint.
- The District [/quote]

This would be cute if D.C. was the region’s dominant center of population and jobs.

It’s neither.[/quote]
[b]The big power, decision makers jobs are in DC.[/b]
Your IT sweatshops jobs are not.[/quote]

Perhaps a couple of decades ago.  No longer.
DP[/quote]
Without DC you wouldn't have your IT sweatshop jobs. 
NoVa is relevant (sort of) because of its proximity to DC[/quote]
+1  A lot of the IT jobs around here are related either directly or indirectly to the government.

I work remotely here for a SV company doing work that is purely for the private sector.

When I looked for IT jobs here a lot dealt with the government.  I don't have any experience in government related systems, jargon, process.

Without the feds, a huge chunk of the IT jobs in NoVa would be gone.  The proximity to DC, the center of the federal government, is attractive to companies.

HQ2 wanted some place close to a major airport, mass transit, and an educated workforce; the workforce, however, is not siloed in NoVA only.  It's spread out from HoCo down to Loudon. They chose Crystal City, BUT, note, that they split HQ2 and chose high tax area NYC .  They got chased out, but the high taxes is  not what ultimately made them pull out.  And notice that Amazon is not going to bring the other half of those jobs to CC. Instead, it's being spread out across their other sites.

I think NoVa has done very well, but it's a mistake to state that it's not related to the government.[/quote]

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