The Life and Death of Amazon Is the Life and Death of Seattle

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It's almost like there isn't another giant tech company called Microsoft there or anything like that.

Not to mention a number of "smaller" tech companies like Zillow, Expedia, and Tableau that would love to hire all the ex-Amazon employees, should Amazon ever have mass layoffs.

My concern is a downturn in the whole tech industry. We have Starbucks, Costco, and Nordstrom so we might be better off than Silicon Valley, but that's not saying much.

Not to mention every large tech company has a presence here.

not to mention Seattle survived for the two decades it took Amazon to get into the black.

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