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Originally Posted by TorontoDrew
I love how many pages this is in already. It really only seems like 3 Canadian cities are in the running. Vancouver Halifax and Toronto. Halifax bid is terrible so far offering a disjointed area where Amazon could be set up. Vancouver is a great location but why set up shop right next door. Toronto is the most obvious expansion city but are they even looking for a city on the continent?
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Halifax is absurd and Vancouver almost equally so.
Halifax is isolated and too small. As for Vancouver, why would Amazon look for a second location only 200km away? What would be the point? Vancouver's extreme cost of living would also make getting workers to move there and near impossibility. Vancouver is critically short of profs, teachers, to say nothing of high tech workers primarily because they can't get anyone to move there.
Toronto is the clear Canadian front runner but I wouldn't cross off Montreal. It has a superb quality of life, a great urbanity which younger high tech workers want, cheap Hydro rates, great public transit, excellent universities, and a very large creative class. Montreal has 2 big problems though..........language barrier of being able to find their workforce and Trudeau International which is a relatively small airport with surprisingly few international and continental connection considering the size of Montreal.