Some companies size-up potential based on a candidates culture fit, but clearly that can backfire in a period of change when business as usual is the wrong answer.
I suspect that as baby-boomers glut the retirement market without enough income to maintain their standard of living at home, the numbers of US retirees living abroad will skyrocket.
It is amazing to me that after such a long public process, and a big win, NYC may end up with nada, other than recognition of a city that can't get out of it's own way to promote growth.