[seacapn]

It’s a classic poisoned chalice. Many of those jobs will be filled by outsiders, from out-of-state and out-of-country. They will relocate to the new area, much like they did with Seattle itself, and will contribute to turning the area hard-blue (again, just like Seattle). 50,000 employees plus their families can have a significant electoral effect in a short amount of time.

[2ndDivisionVet]

So Seattle wasn’t headed hard-left before Amazon?

[Paine in the Neck]

It will be about as beneficial as having a big university. Sure, there will be money flowing but the location will make a very hard left turn politically.

[PIF]

Seattle was sort of lefty back before Amazon was a start up. And it has just accelerated beyond all bounds since then.

[Steve_Seattle]

"It’s a classic poisoned chalice. Many of those jobs will be filled by outsiders, from out-of-state and out-of-country. They will relocate to the new area, much like they did with Seattle itself, and will contribute to turning the area hard-blue (again, just like Seattle)."

Poisoned chalice indeed. Seattle was already blue, but what Amazon did was trigger a massive increase in traffic and housing congestion, the cost of housing, and homelessness. As someone who's lived here all my life, I will benefit from that (my mother's recent passing left a house that has doubled in value in the past eight years), but I pity the younger people.