It looks like each couple of days I cease in my tracks someplace in Seattle and discover myself questioning why on earth I’d need to stay wherever else.
It additionally looks as if I learn each few days — on GeekWire — concerning the subsequent younger startup founder who’s ditching Seattle for San Francisco to chase AI riches. Or a couple of enterprise capitalist who thinks metropolis taxes or the specter of new ones from the state are sufficient cause to pack up and bolt.
Do any of those individuals understand how good we’ve it in the very best place to stay within the U.S.?
Don’t choke in your latte whereas contemplating your subsequent argument concerning the “millionaires tax.” That’s not my declare alone. Journey & Leisure journal is making that assertion, because of a research by digital leisure platform JB, which additionally discovered Seattle to to be one of many prime 10 cities on the planet, alongside dreamy locations similar to Zurich, Copenhagen, Amsterdam and so forth.
The research analyzed 45 cities worldwide, evaluating every on six core options: total high quality of life, security, healthcare entry, air air pollution ranges, unemployment charges, and month-to-month disposable revenue. Boston was the one different U.S. metropolis to make the highest 10.
T&L studies that Seattle’s excessive rating displays a mixture of “glorious healthcare, a top quality of life, and the second-highest disposable revenue within the prime 10,” which it says in the end, helped Seattle outperform bigger, costlier city areas.
Don’t neglect how our easy accessibility to the outside advantages psychological and bodily well being, or how an economic system centered on tech, healthcare, and schooling “gives stability and helps long-term funding in healthcare and environmental requirements,” T&L stated.
However for months I’ve been studying about the way it’s all value ditching if I’m a wealthy individual, a tech large, a startup founder, an AI dreamer or simply about anybody else who’s in opposition to new taxes.
Simply this week, tech leaders warned once more how a brand new revenue tax proposal may stall the area’s momentum in synthetic intelligence. There are mounting fears of injury to the innovation economic system! Greater taxes on prime earners will set off an existential menace to the startup economic system! Individuals will depart!
And what, transfer to Florida?
Many, many individuals in Seattle are from some other place, me included. And positively there are many fascinating locations to stay within the U.S. and past, for a wide range of causes, no matter whether or not you’ll be able to’t deal with the rain or the taxes right here.
And Seattle has loads of issues that can make residents and guests alike scoff at such a rating.
But it surely’s rankings like this one that ought to at the very least be thought of when Microsoft or Amazon or every other firm or its leaders beat the drum of how they may have to go away relatively than pay extra to be right here.
The place do you go once you depart the very best place to stay?
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