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Originally Posted by zurich
Jeff Bezos (IMO) already view's Austin like many of us---IE a city that is not ready to grow up. Austin doesn't even know how to run its own community -- infrastructure is god awful, the light rail was a patch job on existing tracks, museums are better in Abilene, "master planned" Waller Creek is now a failed collapsing disaster and the only major sport's franchise is about ready to run away. JB is only pacifying the existing Whole Foods employees so he can tell them Amazon did their due diligence. Don't get excited, it ain't happening while Mayor Adler is still riding the coattails of Austin's success from 2015 and prior.
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All of the other top 20 cities have the issues Austin has, some have it wayyy worse. I agree we need more muesums, and the only sports is UT, but I doubt those reasons are on his radar.
The biggest reason to come to Austin is money. It will be far cheaper to employ 50k employees in a right to work state that has plenty of room to grow (than say DC or Boston). And the employees will enjoy a better quality of life. Follow the $.
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