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It's too bad they dropped the Detroit area off the list. Hardly any traffic compared to these other cities. Fantastic airport with many direct flights to Europe and Asia. I am kind of glad though. We don't need the stress on our infrastructure or the rapid rise in real estate and salaries Amazon will bring.

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Yeah, I was really hoping for Detroit. It's got a lot of really underutilized infrastructure at this point and could be really revitalized by a large tech company expanding its footprint there. Real estate prices would be relatively low, too.

I'm surprised to see a place like Boston on the list. Having lived there for ~15 years, I just can't imagine adding an additional 50,000 well paid tech workers and their families to that area. It's already densely populated and expensive.

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