Amazon may turn dying JC Penney and Sears stores into warehouses

[LisaM]

12. You suspect wrong.

I moved here (to my current apartment, when our small rental house was sold by the landlord) in large part because of the walkability/shopping factor, which the online industry and the city of Seattle have pretty systematically dismantled in the last four years. In this housing market, moving is terribly expensive, new places would cost more than the exorbitant rent I'm paying now, and I don't believe there's anywhere I can go where I can live and walk to things the way I did. It's very, very unfortunate. And, frankly, I don't want Amazon to "win" at this. I want our government to protect local businesses better, but in this corporate town, Amazon rules the roost and no one cares about the rest of us.

You and I just have different ideas of the way things should be, I think.