tt post mon, sep 11, 2017 - b

http://toledotalk.com/cgi-bin/tt.pl/article/213960/Amazon_looking_for_city_to_build_second_headquarters

bq. _"In an era of "America First", Amazon will have a really hard time convincing Americans that an American company chose Toronto over another American city."_

In my opinion, if Amazon.com chooses a Canadian or Mexican city to be the location of its second headquarters, it will matter zilch to shoppers.

"According":https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon.com to Wikipedia, Amazon employs over 300,000 people. Many of those employees work outside the U.S.

bq. _"... good luck convincing high skilled talent/engineers and executives to live there."_

Currently, Amazon maintains a development center in Toronto that employs highly-skilled technical people. It's not 50,000 employees, but tech people work for Amazon, Apple, and other tech companies in Toronto.

* Amazon - "90 open jobs in Toronto, Ontario, Canada":https://www.amazon.jobs/en/locations/toronto-canada?base_query=&loc_query=&job_count=10&result_limit=10&sort=relevant&location%5B%5D=toronto-canada&cache

Some of those Amazon Toronto job titles include:

* Cloud Application Architect
* Senior UX Designer - Connections
* Software Development Engineer - Amazon Alexa
* Software Development Engineer, Amazon Flex
* Senior Software Engineer - Speech & NLU
* Oracle DB Cloud Architect
* Enterprise Manager - AWS Enterprise Support
* Software Development Engineer - Amazon FreeTime
* Manager, Advertising Services


From a 2015 "story":http://business.financialpost.com/technology/amazon-inc-is-expanding-with-move-into-a-new-downtown-toronto-office-and-is-looking-to-fill-about-100-positions

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In the U.S., it’s becoming more difficult for technology companies to add the number of people needed to match business growth because of caps on foreign workers. Canada doesn’t have a limit for the hiring of highly skilled foreign employees.
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