Splitting Amazon's second headquarters between Queens in New York and the Virginia suburbs of Washington was probably not the best decision from a social perspective. Added traffic will strain already crowded local infrastructure, and New York and Washington are already highly productive cities with thriving technology economies.
That said, critics of HQ2 go too far when they paint the investment as a disaster for local residents.
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