Not surprisingly, there has been a fair amount of municipal tooth-gnashing about that question in the Emerald City. Some have blamed the City Council's progressive politics, including the enactment of a $15 minimum wage and the attempt to impose a municipal income tax on high earners. But the prevailing wisdom appears to be that Seattleites are simply weary of the explosive growth their city has seen in the last few decades, and that even a company so rich as Amazon isn't immune to the massive run-up in real estate prices that has followed. Amazon may be projecting that the employees it will hire at HQ2 will earn $100,000 on average, but even that doesn't go so far in Seattle, where the median home price hit $722,000 this spring, double what it was five years ago.