Companies leaving Seattle in favor of Eastside???
Meta recently announced getting rid of another office building in Seattle in favor of moving more employees to Bellevue. I also saw an article that Google is downsizing their Fremont office. Amazon continues to expand in Bellevue Are other companies doing this too? Why so much movement to the Eastside -- it's way less affordable, horrible housing options, and poorly connected by transit. Very boring area unless you're married with kids. TC: 320 #rto #seattle #bellevue
I guess because of freaking Seattle liberal politics to support the homeless by extra taxing big corporations.
This
Yep because Seattle is mismanaged
lol how is eastside less affordable than Seattle? Your commute from Bothell, Kirkland, Redmond would be very easy and there’s tons of affordable options, it gets cheaper the further out you go.
Eastside is far less affordable. Houses are minimum $1.5m and the apartments for rent are way worse per dollar than what you get in SLU. This is contingent on not owning a car and living somewhere that there's actually anything to do outside. I don't drive, and even if I did Meta plans to make parking paid again (iirc it was $16 per day pre-pandemic. Too expensive to go to the office every day as I'd prefer). Redmond and Bellevue are excruciatingly boring. IME it's almost impossible to meet people in their lower/mid 20s who aren't from a different continent.
Meta requires you to pay for parking? MSFT has a massive garage on west campus, just built out a massive garage in the new east campus and parking is free. Guess that’s the price of free lunch
I love this direction, nothing disgusts me more than an idea that I would need to commute to Seattle for work
Let's do more. Seattle is a cesspool
You should leave meta and join a company with offices in seattle . Vote with your feet .
Already work from the Seattle office, but my team has moved to Bellevue
You can thank Seattle’s payroll tax. https://www.geekwire.com/2022/seattles-big-business-tax-1-year-later-controversial-policy-generates-unexpected-surplus/
Ah this feels like the first real answer. Thanks!
People don’t like being surrounded by crime, meth, and homeless people. Total shocker, right?
Amazon is building a new HQ in FL.
Really
Yup
Brainwashed lemmings.