[wgerard]

> If the influx in Nashville is from Louisiana, that's still important, because it represents an influx that previously would have gone to some other city where there are attractive jobs.

Your original comment:

> Everyone's moving to more comfortable places with lower costs of living.

Moving from Louisiana to Nashville (or from NYC to Seattle) doesn't encompass that statement, so yeah, it does matter.

> Because, if NYC doesn't compete, then it loses the best job applicants to places like Nashville.

Or, NYC attracts good job applicants and Nashville can as well. This doesn't have to be some weird hyper-competitive thing where NYC < Nashville because Amazon isn't coming to NYC.

People aren't leaving NYC - the city's still growing in population despite being, again, by far the largest city in the country. NYC's doing fine. NYC will be continue to be fine without Amazon. Nashville can be fine too.

I'm not trashing your city, I don't know why you feel the need to trash mine.