Wanna bet what Amazon is really doing is attempting to extort tax and/or other financial bennies from state and local pols....?
If it ain’t good enough for AOC it ain’t good enough for Seattle.
That actually sounds reasonable; but, Seattle has just trashed it's own city. So, there may not be enough tax breaks or other benefits to overcome what they have done. Years of "progressive" politics has ruined what was once a wonderful, beautiful city.
My husband's company has allowed "work from home" since the beginning of the Covid nonsense. He is still home and is not wanting to return to the Seattle office. On his walk from the bus stop to his office he is often dodging human excrement on the sidewalk and stepping over drunk or drugged out "homeless" people. Once, an older woman who rides the same bus as my husband asked him to walk her to her building. Usually, there was another man who would do that for her; but, he wasn't there that day. She was afraid to walk a few block to her office alone.
When my hubby and I moved to the Seattle area when we were first married, we walked around Seattle at night and never felt afraid. I think I would be afraid to walk around Seattle during the day at this point. As I said, Seattle did this to itself and the productive people and companies that are in Seattle are now looking for a new home. I know the article that you linked to points to Bellevue as an alternative. It is just as lefty as Seattle; but, they have not let the city suffer and have kept it a nice looking city, albeit, an expensive one.
Considering that the lifeblood of government is extortion turn about seems fair to me.