[PDoyle]

Uh, that's not what NIMBY means. "NIMBY" means we all agree that something a Good Thing™, but I want it placed in someone else's neighborhood instead of mine. It doesn't apply to any possible objection to one's neighborhood.

[zjaffee]

No this is exactly what nimby means, tons of people who would support HQ2 being in manhattan are opposed to HQ2 being in LIC.

[goldfeld]

WHO would support Seattlification? It's boring, it's numb and on top of that it's Amazon. Sorry about how offensive that is.

[ummonk]

> and on top of that it's Amazon.

That's what amuses me about this whole saga. Out of the successful tech companies, Amazon has by far the worst reputation as an employer (mediocre pay compared to other top tech companies, and poor work-life balance for engineers - never mind work conditions for warehouse workers), yet all these cities were bending over backwards to entice Amazon to move to their cities.

[mrep]

Totally, I don't know why anyone these days would accept a pitiful $140,000 total compensation pay as a new grad software development engineer these days. That's practically slave labor... \s

[goldfeld]

People can still be taken advantage of with a mighty sum of money, surprise surprise. Money doesn't make everything right always. It's all about opportunity cost (how long does one's 20s and early 30s last?), the value this young fresh labor provides, how much life is sucked out of their enthusiasm in the process (i.e. jaded expectations carry on for a long time, emotionally), and the naivete combined with ample time to devote to the Bezos cult that's exploited with perks and status that amount to, sincerely, working for the man, in the clearest sense possible (I mean you could up that game with something like Palantir.)

If one's real happy working for Amazon though, I wish them luck and continued prosperity, and a bit of willful ignorance to carry on. For sure it looks real good on the resume for the next gig.

[zjaffee]

At least personally, based on what I've been hearing, Facebook seems to have taken the throne from Amazon on that one.

[rayiner]

Literally dozens of cities who pitched Amazon for HQ2.

[ghaff]

Exactly. NIMBY has become one of those largely meaningless cheap shots like "politically incorrect" that gets used to tar anyone who wants something different from what you do. It's much more properly applied to things that no one really wants next to them but that have to go somewhere.

[prestonbriggs]

Perhaps Queens should offer Amazon a pile o' money to build their new HQ somewhere else, anywhere else!

[snakeboy]

"This is a nice neighborhood you've got here. Be a shame if anything happened to it..."

[harryh]

An office for engineers and various other jobs isn't a Good Thing™?