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They're doing the community a service by creating high paying jobs? The people will be shipped in from all around the world and displace the current communities. This destroys communities. This segregates poor & lower income people out. Only already rich people get to experience the benefits of this.

The subsidies and tax cuts they got are an embarrassment to our system and a wonderful look into how this country isn't working for lower classes and small local business that actually build communities. Amazon doesn't need subsidies, this is just a race to the bottom.

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That's partially true. Not sure where you are from, but as opposed to places like San Francisco, NYC has a functioning real estate private sector that reacts rationally to increases in demand by increasing supply. This is not to say gentrification is not a thing, but it's not like in San Francisco where there's basically a set housing stock and new people completely displace the old people. Instead new people displace some of the old residents, but they also rent or buy newly built housing. In the long run Amazon's choice is probably good for nyc. It could be very good if nyc manages to get its act together regarding subway and infrastructure.

In case you didn't know SF has been building more housing/per capita than New York City for a while now..

Where is this housing you speak of???

https://sf.curbed.com/2016/8/10/12430444/sf-apartment-constr...

And San Francisco? Our 4,100 new apartments is just one per 204 persons. Only three cities managed to do less: San Diego (225), Chicago (324), and New York City (396).

And yet NYC still has some of the highest rent in the country. For someone making 60k or less it doesn't matter much if the rent is 2k or 3k a month, it's all totally unaffordable anyway and those people are either pushed further out from where they work, or if they're young they split the rent amongst 2-4 people.

Those are Manhattan prices. If you travel more than 10 minutes outside Manhattan the rent drops. This normally means long commutes, but with the new HQ in queens, workers could commute from the cheaper parts of queens.

Maybe six or seven years ago. Any neighborhood close to Manhattan is already dealing with the issue of high rent.

This mentality that we should be thankful for "job creators" is incredibly toxic. Amazon hiring people because it benefits their bottom line, its not a charity, skip the "community service" crap.

There aren’t any poor people living in crystal city.

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