Is the Amazon-Led Economic Boom Wrecking Seattle?

reifman writes: Seattleites are struggling with massive traffic, rising housing costs and declining diversity. Amazon's building and acquiring enough office space to triple its local headcount by 2020. Facebook, Google and many other tech companies are now expanding here as well — it's the San Franciscoization of Seattle. Downtown is filled with 75 cranes — some blocks look like mining towns. Amazon's hired so many white males that King County is now the whitest in the nation and hate crimes against gays have shot up in a formerly LGBTQ neighborhood. Politicians can't agree on reforming impact fees and taxes to address these issues." An interesting piece of recent advice from a long time Amazonian to the company's interns: avoid full-time employment there.

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Re:So tired of these stupid articles

[meglon]

Enough. I'm not even promoting rightist shit.

Actually you are, just like you always do. Your rant post is a laundry list of bullshit talking points from mental midget conservative talk shows and "pundits." I'm sorry you're a fucking brainwashed idiot, but don't try to disguise your fucking idiocy as anything other than that.... most everyone else here isn't as stupid as you are. Quit projecting your fucking failures onto other people.... us leftists are tired of you conservatives fucking everything up.

Health care costs: http://www.usatoday.com/story/...

Housing prices are going to go up regardless.... same land, more people... an idiot could figure that out; unless of course you crash the entire economy like Shrub did.

Jobs... oh, jobs..... http://politicsthatwork.com/de...

Crime? Seriously, you are a fucking idiot. Crime is dealt with from min to max, not the other way around. Cities, Counties, States, Federal. If you think either of the parties has much control over criminal activity, you are too fucking stupid to ever be taken seriously on anything. One thing that has increased when democrats are in charge is an increase in right wing terrorist groups http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06...

I'll add one more note.... THE most progressive event since the signing of the Magna Carta was a group of citizens deciding they didn't need a king, but they needed a government where everyone had representation, and where the rights of everyone where not theirs by the whim of someone else. So you say you don't like the United States? Go fuck yourself.