Why Amazon and Google selected the big apple town instead of a place That desires Them extra

Vox’s Matt Yglesias laments Amazon’s obvious selection to cut up its planned, interesting “2d headquarters” into two dull, huge branch offices in two obvious, excessive-value markets:

absolutely positioned, even as finding big pools of excessive-earnings white collar positions inside the ny and DC metro areas makes a ton of feel for Amazon, it doesn’t without a doubt make that plenty feel for both more the big apple metropolis or greater Washington. Amazon’s presence will generally tend to exacerbate those cities’ crises of housing affordability and overburdened transportation infrastructure. And it makes no feel at all for the usa of the us, which urgently wishes greater monetary opportunity in dozens of different metro areas which have a extraordinary set of troubles.

It’s now not just Amazon; rapidly when I wrote that no person calls Google’s large the big apple workplace a “second headquarters,” the Wall road magazine suggested that Google intends to extend its the big apple presence to 20,000 people, this means that it's going to rival the size of Amazon’s planned “2nd headquarters” here.