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I'd argue Research Triangle Park (RTP) is better choice than Austin. Instead of using one feeder school Amazon could pull from three excellent schools: Duke University, North Carolina State University, and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. For those that are unfamiliar RTP is a major tech center.

Edit: Changed "RTP" to "Research Triangle Park" in initial comment.

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I agree. There's a huge tech workforce in RTP, very good universities, affordable costs of living (which I suppose translates to affordable business property). Another indication: Take a look at the size of the Triangle AWS Meetup group on Meetup.com. It has 879 members.

I've been to Pittsburgh too, and I do think that a possibility. One advantage that Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill has over Pittsburgh is weather. Amazon is very fault-tolerant minded. There's not much chance they'd need to close the facility in Raleigh because of a blizzard (although it has happened a few rare times).

Forgive my ignorance, what is RTP?

Trying to figure that out too. I assume they're talking about the "Research Triangle" area, but I can't figure out what the P is.

P = Park

Research Triangle Park- between Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill, North Carolina, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research_Triangle_Park

Best guess: Dallas Forth-Worth?

That would be great! However a number of companies (like PayPal) cancelled their plans to move to the area last year because of the HB2 debacle. Not sure how Amazon feels about that. Good thing is that the situation seems to have normalized now with a democrat governor and some big companies (like HSBC) moving here this year.

I'd agree, Raleigh area would be a great choice. It is growing with lower cost of living than other tech centers.

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