What would happen if Amazon brought 50,000 workers to your city? Ask Seattle.

(David Ryder for The Washington Post/A worker cleans the exterior of one of three glass spheres at Amazon headquarters in Seattle on Sept. 27.)

By Jonathan O'Connell October 19

SEATTLE — Amazon.com has driven an economic boom in Seattle, bestowing more than 40,000 jobs upon a city known for Starbucks coffee and Seahawks fandom. Its growth remade a neglected industrial swath north of downtown into a hub of young workers and fixed the region, along with Microsoft before it, as a premier locale for the Internet economy outside Silicon Valley.

Amazon proposed a second headquarters in the U.S. and these cities are hungry for it. Amazon chief executive Jeffrey P. Bezos owns The Washington Post. (Monica Akhtar/The Washington Post)

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