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I can't read the article without turning off my ad blocker, but based on other comments in this thread, Virginia doesn't actually seem to be suffering because they didn't offer anything beyond standard development incentives they would offer to anyone. Those incentives are performance based, so they aren't paid if Amazon doesn't follow through.

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The whole reason activists in NY made a stink about this is because these "jobs" Amazon promised were all hypothetical white collar jobs that would not benefit the existing residents at all and instead serve as a forcing function to push them out of their communities through price increases. Imagine you are a representative of the people currently living there. If you actually wanted to benefit your constituents you'd attracts jobs that your voters are actually qualified for(Maybe an Amazon warehouse which they already have). There was a massive surge in real estate purchasing and speculation in the weeks leading up the Amazon decision in NY. All AOC and the activists really did was request Amazon answer some additional questions and that was enough for them to totally flip the table and announce they are leaving. What followed what the shit show that AOC described in her tweet.

In the end those white collar jobs didn't even materialize in Virgina but they got all the downsides that NY avoided.