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by OrwellianChild
3078 days ago
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Just to make sure it's clear that this is not a universal opinion: I am a non-Amazon Seattle resident, and I'm thrilled with what the economic growth has done to the area. Some examples: - Converted an un-safe warehouse district into prime, central real estate and a thriving neighborhood (South Lake Union) - Grown a progressive, thriving economy that has in turn supported development of mass transit (ST2, ST3 - citywide light rail) - Pushed the median household income up 13% over the last decade Seattle ain't perfect, but there is no question in my mind that we'd be worse off without the thriving local tech economy. |
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SLU was not un-safe. The idea that there is a seriously unsafe neighborhood in the city of Seattle is laughable. I remember SLU before Amazon. It has become extremely expensive and gentrified, that's it.
>Grown a progressive, thriving economy that has in turn supported development of mass transit (ST2, ST3 - citywide light rail)
Has massively inflated the population with wealthy transplants over a short period of time, pushing non-tech workers into the suburbs and requiring the citizens to pay for the added infrastructure costs due to Amazon-caused overcrowding without chipping in to help the city.
>Pushed the median household income up 13% over the last decade
You don't actually believe this is due to Amazon? I'm sure they helped a little.. mostly by pushing the poors out...
>Seattle ain't perfect, but there is no question in my mind that we'd be worse off without the thriving local tech economy.
Agreed, and Seattle has always been home to a thriving tech sector which is great. But other companies behave better with respect to their local community. Microsoft set up shop across the water, with a big campus so that employees could head into Seattle but didn't invade it and has adopted the culture of the area fairly well. Employees are treated well.