Yfw Amazon puts their new HQ in a shitty, car-dependent, depressing, unwalkable normie city like Charlotte

>yfw Amazon puts their new HQ in a shitty, car-dependent, depressing, unwalkable normie city like Charlotte

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how the fuck are normie cities depressing, shitty, and unwalkable? that makes no sense. stop being an autistic faggot. the fuck are you going to bring to Amazon anyway, packing boxes like a blue collar that will be replaced by a robot in a year?

Really? Last I heard it was either going to be Boston or Atlanta...

I'm sick of all these normies who don't like car cities

fuck off retards it's maximum freedom from interacting with others

being cut off from everything from frigid highways because you want to go rock climbing or easily take kids someone in the minivan = normie paradise

cities without real neighborhoods are trash

Charlotte is one of the worst cities in the US

Boston is good, Atlanta sucks

The ideal location for HQ2 is Chicago, lots land available near the Loop for reasonable prices, but it's probably going to Atlanta.

Chicago, Boston or DC seem ideal. Why would it go to Atlanta? Atlanta fucking sucks

Despite Atlanta being a car-ridden hell hole, there's a lot of room to grow in Atlanta. Illinois has a debt crisis because of pensioners, and last I heard Atlanta was offering pretty good tax incentives for Amazon to move in, which Illinois/Cook County can't afford.

It's going to go to a place that's already established as a tech hub, with a large source of new talent.
Georgia Tech is one of the best schools in the world and it's right there in Atlanta.

not only can they not afford incentives, they're the urban equivalent of a single mom with student loans. They hate you, they just want a meal ticket.

>Georgia Tech is one of the best schools in the world
>deluded redneck southerners actually believe this

usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-science-schools/computer-science-rankings

>coastcuck talking out of his ass

>tied for 9th (so rrally 10th)
>in a U.S inflated ranking
>"one of the best schools in the world"

>implying GT is better than UIUC

>when reality hits envirocyclefags in the face
lol you STILL haven't learned that suburbia is the preferred living model of successful people?
Professionals with disposable income want to drive to/from work and live in a spacious house with a nice backyard.
Stick your nu-poverty lifestyle up your ass. Only complete losers like you thrive by living in a shoebox or cycling/taking the bus to your shitty job. Big companies don't want to be based anywhere near you so enjoy your "startups" and hipster cafe employment options.

It's going to Detroit, the city is on the upward.

Looks awesome.

the reality is the opposite of what you just said. The reality is actually that people with money prefer walkable central city locations. Ever heard of "gentrification," brainlet? More and more minorities and immigrants are moving to suburbs. Suburbs are the US's biggest socialist project, created by insolvent highways systems and strict zoning and regulations

>y-yeah, nobody with money lives in Manhattan! Honest! I make almost 60k and I live in the suburbs of Indianapolis!! My commute is only an hour and 40 minutes, it's g-great!

walkable cities literally destroy populations lol

that's an artifact. Urbanization (which includes suburbs) do

bump

>Amazon is building a warehouse in Kissimmee, Florida
>live on Boggy Creek, 5 minutes from it
>No longer have to wait a half day just for USPS to do their rounds from Davenport
Fucking finally

>Charlotte is one of the worst cities in the US
What's bad about it? I'm currently working remotely from bumfuck SC, and I've been looking at jobs around there recently

Chicago is cucked by taxes. Its going to go to Austin or some shithole like Orlando.

Looking at google maps, Charlotte looks nothing like that. It actually looks pretty comfy, lots of green and shade trees.

>Bezos grew up in miami
>Miami polticians deluding themselves it will be here
>This will be the new face of amazon

charlotte is an uppity city. not surprising considering it's the banking HQ for all the major banks. charlotte is like the southern version of manhattan except with less cool people and more dorky he haw southerners.

How much does a house like this cost in Charlotte? It looks so comfy.

that little shit box will probably run you a 100 grand.

The ideal location is Toronto
>Weak Canadian dollar means cheap for Amazon to build
>Railroads, docks, and airports easily accessible
>University of Toronto one of the top tier universities, and a few others in city limits
>Government will bend over backwards in taxes to get them to build

It's too bad they won't though.

In my country for that much I'd only be able to buy some shitty 30m2 apartment. No backyard, no driveway, no trees.

I dream of buying a house like that, and park my Mustang on it. Spend the evening drinking beer and installing an supercharger on it. Not kidding.

target fucked its shit up by expanding into commie canada. there is no chance of this happening

About 1.3mil in AU

>Being this retarded
Georgia tech is one of the best CS graduate schools in the world, right up there with University of Washington.

If Charlotte were walkable and had decent public transit it would have Baltimore levels of crime. Amazon won't be located in a nigger city. Bezos loves to signal his progressive virtue, but he isn't stupid.

Are you jelly that the US dominates the academic and research world?

Yeah but brick and mortar retail was already on a sharp decline. Target fucked up by obtaining more brick and mortar stores rather than investing in the internet, Amazon doesn't have to worry about that.

my dream is basically to be able to travel and live in a van.

Hope you get that comfy house one day.

Not even in the top 20 worldwide.

move to america then, if you want to buy a $100k house you only need a $50k income. then if you want to buy that mustang you just need to not get married or have kids.

>Order package
>It gets shot
Can we choose wharehouses?

whats the mid pay rate for sysadmin in this shithole of a town ?

I wish it was in Vancouver ;_;

>junkies raid Amazon HQ opening day

Literally nothing is wrong with the city. People just like to be overly autistic about things. He probably just took a stance against it once and is too inept to give it up.

While I live in Kentucky, quick research tells you it's a thriving city. Jobs are popping up, nice suburban city, relatively south so nicer whether. On top of that, you're under 4 hours away from Myrtle Beach and only 2 and a half hours away from Asheville for the mountains, the best of both worlds. Sounds like you would be better off moving there, don't listen to the people that complain about it. Fuck, I may look at jobs there after I graduate in the spring.

what is ar car (dependend) City ? i do not underatand the term nor i have a idea what that means

I think it means any city that's mostly just suburbia with highways connecting the neighborhoods (i.e you need a car to get anywhere)

No public transportation?

Shouldn't be an issue assuming everybody will get a company car.

And in any case far better than silicon valley.

>sitting in a car for 8 hours to spend some time at the beach.

30 minutes to the beach and 6 hours to the mountains is far more acceptable.

>Detroit
>on the upward
They've been saying that since I was a kid, man.
"This is the year we rise from the ashes!"
You walk around Corktown these days and it's like, "Woah, I guess the rumors are true. Looking a lot nicer down here."
Stroll a couple blocs and you've got feral pitbulls ready to fucking maul you. Screams and gunshots ringing out from the section-eight housing nearby. Don't even get me started on neighborhoods like Conant Gardens and Delray.
Downtown is getting nicer with the new sports facilities and whatnot. But a friend of mine was mugged at knifepoint while walking around Wayne State's campus in BROAD DAYLIGHT.
The schools are some of the very worst in the nation. Look up literacy rates among Detroiters. I think you'll be shocked.
And then there's fucking city council and local gov. Need we mention Conyers, Kilpatrick and the rest of the Detroit Dems?
Anyone deluded enough to move here deserves what they get.
t. Detroiter of nearly 30 years.

It's different now, we have Dan Gilbert

Good joke lol.
For anyone interested, here's a photograph of an upstanding resident of the Delray neighborhood. The city's actually PAYING homeowners to vacate the neighborhood.
Bet she'd make an excellent hire for Amazon should they move H2 to the city.

isn't that arizona? that's literally hell on earth regardless

Charlotte is currently expanding its light rail system, recently to the university area.
t.University Area Student

Really, really hope it does not come to Atlanta. It will just make things fucking awful. My reasonable 1 bedroom 625 ft apartment will likely double in price, traffic will be even worse, and salaries will inflate because "amazon is here now", which won't make a lick of difference as the cost of living will go up dramatically.

If they move here instead of eventually looking to buy a house here I'd have to think about moving back near home and spend my rent on a big ass condo in the middle of nowhere and work remote only.

I want one of those little animals she has befriended. What are they called?

Possum

RIP

Do they sell them in pet shops?

>suburban city
the fact that this isn't considered an oxymoron by most americans is why normie stepford towns are so depressing. They're better than living in leftist cesspool cities like Seattle/Portland/SF, but that's not saying much.

> muh walkability
> muh two wheeled jew
No
Amazon has enough soyboy cucks from Seattle.
They need to come to a REAL city that doesn't have any fagmobiles (subways, busses, bicycles, sedans, etc), but REAL men driving REAL vehicles.

>he can't drive

raleigh has all that but without all the niggers

is Amazon HQ your local corner shop or something? the fuck you want it to be "walkable" for?

>Amazon HQ2 goes to Detroit
>Amazon purges the filth
>massive influx of high-income residents leads to all abandoned buildings being destroyed, crackheads pushed out
>best city in US again

There's a lot of cheap land available in Detroit, but the infrastructure isn't there to support Amazon.

This is a pipe dream. This is the very snake oil Detroit renaissance mongoloids have been pushing for the past decade.
Yes. You can purchase property in Detroit for pretty cheap. Once you own that property, however, the upkeep is unbelievably expensive. You might be surprised that Detroit boasts the second-highest property tax in the entire nation.
Hard to run a small business when you're encumbered by high taxation, vandalism and larceny.
We literally have a holiday, practiced only in Detroit (to my knowledge), where we burn shit to the ground. Every year, the night before Halloween, we celebrate Devil's Night. Hasn't been too bad these past few years, though.
Earlier in the thread I mentioned illiteracy. Latest figures show 50 percent of the city's adult population is functionally illiterate. That's approximately 336,397 retards roaming around the city. And people wonder why the city looks and works the way it does.
You demolish the rot, try to gentrify the neighborhoods, you're always going to be confronted with the upper-class transplants, the suburban millennials who moved back to the city to find culture and adventure. These people scream and whine about gentrification of neighborhoods because you're essentially "white washing" the city. If they had their way, the entirety of Detroit would look like the crossroads of W Chicago & Livernois Ave.
Fucking city is a lost cause, man. And that's the sad part. You're certainly correct: once upon a time it was the best, most affluent and cosmopolitan city in the country. Fucking sad, man.

>own property in Atlanta
Come on Amazon.

Holy fuck I refuse to believe you are being authentic in your opinion.

I don't see why it's so hard to believe, there are a lot of people like him

Because it's such a stupid opinion to have. The fact there are a lot of people like him is terrifying.

>it's stupid
So are most people.

You're a fag; go die

I love this meme that US universities are superior to everything else. They may produce more and higher quality research than schools in other countries but the quality of education is absolute fucking trash. I've been to 2 top 40 schools in US on that list for CS degree and in 2 different European schools and both of the European schools were miles above in quality of education. Americans love to act as if their education system is world class when in reality it's third world tier on top of putting half the people who go through it into crippling debt.

Though having a degree from an US university is still a massive bonus in your CV as an European even if the university really is much worse than your local university.

>I've been to 2 top 40 schools in US on that list for CS degree and in 2 different European schools
Which ones, for how long, in what part of your education?

I sure as shit hope they don't put it near me. All it will be is a burden on the local economy. People are trying to entice Amazon with these ridiculous incentives like significant tax breaks or zero taxes for X many years. Who the fuck do you think is gonna pay for that? The taxpayers will. Amazon gets a bunch of free shit and the only thing they bring with them in return is jobs, most of which are low skill low pay and may very well be automated in a few years anyway. Not only are they not bringing anything of value to the community they are actively hurting it.

Fuck Amazon. Not in my backyard.

>Produce better and more research than anybody else
>BUT YOUR SCHOOLS ARE BAD CAUSE I SAID SO
ok ivan

Won't be telling school names. However the US ones are both well known unis. Out of the European ones one is a large somewhat known uni and one is small local to me. Spent at least a semester in each school, in the US for a year starting from the second half of my junior year. I do have an actual degree from one of the US schools because of the program I was in.

Based on the anecdotal evidence of me and everyone else who I've met that's been on an exchange to US that's the case. Your schools still have much more prestige and it's definitely been an advantage for me to have gone through it.

>Won't be telling school names
I'm forced to assume that you didn't go anywhere good, or if you did you were probably taking their intro classes, which depending on where you are yes, can be astoundingly shitty.