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Unless I'm misreading this, it looks like Nashville got the best deal

> Amazon will receive performance-based direct incentives of up to $102 million based on the company creating 5,000 jobs with an average wage of over $150,000 in Nashville.

This is a pretty big deal for Nashville, and costing them only $12,000 per job is a pretty big win.

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As someone who lives in Nashville and can see the future location out my office window, Nashville might be getting jobs but we don't have the infrastructure to support what we already have. The post Amazon puts out makes it sound like we have public transit (we basically don't) and the recently downvoted transit bill means we can't readdress it anytime in the near future. I don't really see anything good out of it for those of us who already live here and have no interest in picking up one of those jobs.

There's plenty of space elsewhere in the country, why not relocate your family to the Midwest? You can get a cheap home and there are plenty of jobs

Your salary will likely go up even if you don’t take one of those jobs.

Nashville makes sense for anyone doing distribution. Great airport with tons of planes, pilots, distribution center workers already there for the largest couriers. Also because you can reach 60% of Americans by road in 1-2 days and efficient hub and spoke distribution for air freight.

Fedex uses Memphis as their distribution hub, so Amazon is taking a similar path it seems.

The University of Tennessee ranks well in supply chain & logistics, so it makes sense. I believe Lyft opened a similar operations office in Nashville. Unfortunately, Nashville could really use strong tech jobs as well, which the state is sorely lacking. I wish Amazon had chosen Nashville as one of the main HQs.

> The University of Tennessee ranks well in supply chain & logistics

Fedex is based in Memphis, so this makes sense

Proximity to Fedex's headquarters and hub probably played a large role.

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