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Originally Posted by eschaton
Because these people feel like they got theirs already. Amazon won't improve things for them, only make things worse. They won't get Amazon jobs, but they will have to live in a city which is larger, more expensive, and more congested.
Of course, this ignores that the additional Amazon jobs will probably put upward pressure on all wages (until our labor force expands enough through migration) and that anyone who is a homeowner looking to sell will do quite well for themselves. But more fundamentally, it shows why NIMBYism happens. Current residents virtually never see growth as being in their interests, even if it's in the interests of the metro as a whole.
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Yes very well said. I myself wouldn't mind paying more to live in an improved, larger city. But I know the vast majority sees otherwise. I just think that overall growth and improvement for the metro trickles down to everyone who lives here overall in some way or another.