Posted on 09/20/2018 9:01:36 AM PDT by Hostage
The site, founded by best-selling author/researcher Bert Sperling, claims that Amazon – a company whose stock surpassed $1 trillion in valuation earlier this month -- will put its roots down in a relatively remote area of Northern Virginia known as Oatlands.
If that name doesn’t exactly ring a bell, don’t feel badly. Oatlands is a leafy, unincorporated community just outside Leesburg, Va. -- and Leesburg itself only has about 52,000 residents.
“We can now confidently say that the new Amazon HQ2 will be located … in Northern Virginia near the Maryland border, in a small community that hasn’t been mentioned by other experts or publications,” BestPlaces.net declared Monday.
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And employees renting homes there will sing
“I owe my soul to the company storrrrrre”
You’re right - the highway structure isn’t there to support it.
It’s gonna help push Virginia from purple to blue. Sorry to everyone in the southern part of the state.
No I do think the argument put forward makes sense. On the East Coast but in an area with some buildable space. Near DC for political purposes. And 200,000 Amazon zombies probably is enough to cement VA as a blue state.
That would be politically analogous as Austin is the blue encampment in a red state, moving the progressive army to Dallas would stress TX toward the blue end.
Then again, TX just had an upset vote in favor of the GOP.
That is sad but not as sad as it would be if they picked Denver.
....or Boston.
Marko
There are a lot of places Amazon could choose in the DC metro area. The question that interests me is whether Amazon would choose another suburban office park — the conventional, big corporate choice — or try something different.
Amazon already hires a lot of Texans. They recruit heavily here. They’ve contacted me several times in the past ... and my wife as well. Unlike Google, Amazon appears to have a much more politically diverse workforce nationwide. I’m not overly concerned that HQ2 would cause much of a political shift. Fun fact: Jeff Bezos lived in Houston for a few years. His step dad was in the oil business... and I’ve heard Jeff isn’t nearly as liberal as he may appear to be.
True. Very politically incorrect.
But Amazon's higher-ups are as concerned as other top execs with keeping the riff-raff (the rest of us) far away.
A capital-area location also goes along with Bezos's ownership of the local newspaper. He may be planning a political career, but even if he isn't it spells more subscribers and more influence in the area.
Fair enough. He’s a chameleon.
But Jeff’s father (Jeff was adopted) was CIA making Jeff a CIA kid. Those kids grow up thinking they are ruling class. Tells why Jeff attends Bilderberg meetings.
Jeff didn’t make a full year’s profit until 2011, 17 years after he started AMZN. And that profit was meager and cooked. Soon after he got a billion dollar CIA contract for Cloud Services and he was told to buy the nearly bankrupt WAPO. Then his stock soared making him one of the wealthiest in the world. These things are not by accident or by merit.
If POTUS can round up the Brennan CIA renegades, Bezos can warm to Trump; he better if he knows what’s good for him.
He’s like Gates, he will blow smoke whichever direction you prefer. Keep a wary eye on him.
NoVa has ALREADY turned Virginia Purple. The line between Red and Blue USED to be the Beltway. Now it’s out to Mount Weather and the rest of the first range of the Appalachians. . .
Yep, the danger is in the turning of purple to blue.
Born in southern VA, I grew up in and around DC.
I seriously don’t know what I would do with that massive government workforce that has grown around DC including so, so many contractors. Their whole livelihood is ‘government’. I have a CPA cousin near Annapolis that contracts exclusively with Beltway bandits and govt offices.
G-people around DC are a powerful lobby. Feed them and they are usually quiet; starve them and all hell breaks loose via their streetwalking Hos in the media.
Relatively cheap land - and the new city can move TO THEM... It’s the old Walmart Way - back when Sam was running the place.
Time to move again.
Yes, understand but geographically and politically TX is still red in total, thank the Lord.
AMZN recruiting in Dallas would be analogous to growing and relocating progressives there, and so turn TX overall more to a purply color.
It’s analogous to NOVA in that way because NOVA is blue and growing the zombie force there would put more blue pressure on VA’s red/purple balance.
Oh, he’s definitely in the pocket of the deep state... literally. Nice huge data centers they have... enough to store... well almost everything. Given contracts and political uncertainty, he has to ride the fence. But, deep down... I have reasons to believe he’s more on our side.
It’s an interesting choice. I suspect the value of the land itself may be a draw.
Oatlands is the next town over from Asburn, VA where the largest concentration of data centers in the world is.
To me, this will leverage Amazon’s growth as a cloud computing powerhouse and also Amazon’s support of the cloud operations of the US federal government.
Regular companies and corporations have Information technology staff who make smart decisions about their IT infrastructure. But the government generally defers to private industry and “cloud” infrastructure is turning out to be a way for challengers like Microsoft, Amazon, and Google to uproot IBM, Oracle, and other systems integrators to haul down IT infrastructure contracts.
So by locating in Oatlands, its staff is close enough to gain influence in DC and also help build new data centers adjacent to Ashburn.
Sounds like a brilliant plan. And if Trump can drastically cut the federal employee workforce in the next several years, there are some highly trained, well-educated people in and around Oatlands to be tapped as employees.
Thanks, great input!
Now if Bezos would just retire to some liberal hellhole and be succeeded by a Trumpian CEO, we can sleep better for the future.
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