Amazon Pulls Out of Planned New York City Campus
In 2016, I relocated from Silicon Valley to southern Rhode Island to build and reside in a new custom home. Over the next two years, I probably injected up to $1M into the local economy. I didn't expect or receive any special treatment from the local government. I didn't go to local officials and threaten to relocate elsewhere unless they gave me incentives, tax breaks, concessions, enticements, zoning variances, etc.<p>In my opinion, the type of special treatment that New York offered Amazon is fundamentally anti-democratic and just plain wrong.