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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This Washington Post interview makes an interesting point: “When large headquarters move to the metropolitan area, they almost never consider Maryland and D.C.,” said Yesim Sayin Taylor, executive director of the D.C. Policy Center. “They invariably locate in Northern Virginia, and that’s now snowballing. The Dulles corridor has become a huge attraction to technology companies.”[/quote]
most major companies seek a large airport and good public transport. Hence why Amazon HQ2 also initially chose NYC.  Notice, NYC has high taxes but it has LGA and a metro.

Arlington is close to DCA and metro into DC.

MoCo doesn't have an airport, and BWI is too far from DC.

That was really the only selling point for Arlington.

Also, notice that the data centers in NoVa are near IAD.

Most of the tech companies out in the SF area chose areas near SFO or SJC.  SFO has BART, and SJC has caltrains and a lightrail.

It's about public transportation.  I do agree that MoCo needs better public transportation by expanding the metro, but they aren't going to be able to build an airport.[/quote]

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