Anonymous
12/17/2018 06:11
Subject: PG County "Lucky Loser" of Amazon HQ2
Anonymous wrote:
+1. I love how all the Maryland boosters said having to cross a bridge was so awful - how it made Virginia "so far removed" from DC and the rest of the area. It's like they'd never seen rivers in Brussels, Buenos Aires, London or Hong Kong. But now that Amazon is coming to Crystal City, suddenly it's "Oh PG is gonna benefit! We're right over the bridge!"
You do realize that this thread was started by someone in VA, right? But carry on with your MD bashing so you can feel good about yourself.
Not sure I see any bashing here. PP simply pointed out the inconsistency in the argument that some people don't want to commute over the bridge from Virginia to DC, yet expect Amazon workers to buy in PG so they can commute over the bridge to Virginia. I happen to like parts of Prince George's, but man are the folks here overly sensitive to any perceived slight.
+1.
I bet a dollar not a single Amazon worker chooses to commute from PG.
That'd be frankly stupid for them -- they are not exactly government workers with plenty to time to kill, ya know?
Market studies have already been done, many workers will live in PG.
You sound really ignorant and racist, why not live in PG?
They literally just said it’s about commute.
LITERALLY.
Would the commute really be that long though from PG to Pentagon City or Crystal City since Amazon will spread offices between those areas, as "National Landing". According to Google it is like 40-50 mins via train from PG Plaza or West Hyattsville to Pentagon City or Crystal City. It will be less if they expand Yellow Line service to Greenbelt. People commute that far in their car from as far as places like Stafford so why would people not be interested in a train ride where they wouldn't have to worry about the stress of driving and could still have access to affordable housing?
Possibly, but only for a handful of people. If I have to commute 50 minutes to Crystal City, why would I want to do so from PG Plaza? I can get about the same price in further out VA at that point. And I think the point about "sensitivity" was borne out by a couple PP's going back & forth about commuting over a bridge - and then someone immediately jumping in to call them racist because they won't consider living in PG!
