>and Amazon has been more of a problem here than a blessing if
>you ask me.
>
>i mean, if your thing is Amazon displacing local businesses,
>building homogenous high-rise buildings which sucks out your
>city's natural character and culture and making it too
>expensive for anyone but those that work at Amazon to live in
>those buildings, then Amazon might be right for you.
>
>that's all i've really seen it do here.


Displacing local businesses? Check/
Cookie-cutter residential and commercial high rises? Check.
Too expensive? Check.
Natural character and culture? Been moving out.


Moot point now, but what Amazon turned Seattle into, New York City already was a long time ago.