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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They will hire locals and most will commute in.  There are already a lot of Amazon employees and many will be consolidated.  They are having trouble filling the slots they have.  They also allow telecommuting for some jobs so you can live further out and just go in as needed.  We don't know anyone who works at Amazon who lives near work.  Some live in other states and just fly in as needed.[/quote]

+1  I have friends in close in Maryland who commute to  Amazon in Virginia.  They're not all going to live within a mile of HQ.[/quote]

Yea, but their life is going to be a living hell. I already have people who commute in fro MoCo on my team and they are 1.5hrs in the car already. These marylanders are already so priced out, hopefully for their sake MD can try to figure out how to attract business and not drive it away.[/quote]

No, they're not priced out, some people just prefer Maryland (which has equally expensive real estate as VA to date) for whatever reason.  I have a neighbor in Chevy Chase who works at AWS. She says it takes [b]about 30-40 minutes driving to AWS[/b].  That's not a bad commute (same as my commute to DC).[/quote]

That's gotta be on a good day.  One little fender bender, and we're closer to 2 hours.  Trust me, I know.  [/quote]

You’re assuming everyone in Maryland needs to drive or lives in MoCo. A train ride from Takoma, Silver Spring or Forest Glen to Amazon is around 30 to 40 minutes...the same or less time as it would be from Vienna or anywhere on the Silver Line from Tysons or further out. Anyone coming from the Green Line stations in PG would have a similar commute.

As for driving, if you live in Fort Washington or somewhere near there it is a much shorter drive to Crystal City than coming from a lot of Fairfax (Reston, Oakton, etc) and you don’t have to pay tolls.[/quote]

You have to get to the metro, then metro, then get to the AWS building.  So, you are forgetting to include getting to the metro, waiting for a train, transferring trains and then getting to the AWS building.

It can be 2 hours like that poster said.  Its been up to 4-5 hours in a snow store or fender bender.[/quote]

I don’t get your point. The same can be said for people living near the Orange and Silver Lines in Falls Church and Fairfax, yet people assume that Falls Church and Fairfax are going to reap all the benefits. All I’m saying is that there are many places in close-in Maryland (a couple miles inside or outside the Beltway) that have just as convenient commutes to Amazon as places like Falls Church, Vienna, Reston, etc. It is faster to get to Crystal City from the end of the Green Line in Greenbelt via Metro than from Vienna. It takes about the same time to get to Amazon from Forest Glen and Strathmore than it does from Wiehle. This fantasy that most people are going to drive on the tolls on I-66 and pay $20+ a day to park isn’t realistic. A lot of their employees will be taking Metro and commuter rail.

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