Reply to post: Re: Ditched

Amazon throws toys out of pram, ditches plans for New York HQ2 after big trouble in Big Apple

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Re: Ditched

>both in property costs and salary costs,

Same reason that NY didn't need to make a deal.

Come to Queens and have a local market of a million programmers or open your new AWS development office in des Moines, and see how much more than $45K/job it costs you to recruit and lure programmers away from the coasts.

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