It’s enough to make you want to book tickets to Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, or, yes, Detroit.
As part of their pitches to Amazon for their $5 billion second headquarters, a number of cities are boasting of their charms in slick videos.
Here are a few of them, from cities large and small. Call it an Amazon bid film festival.
The list starts with the three major American cities above, whose videos make a strong argument, including a particularly stirring video for Detroit, which used the tagline, “Move here. Move the world.”
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh
Detroit
Washington, D.C.
Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas
Calgary, Alberta
Frisco, Texas
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Danbury, Conn.
And here’s one of Boston’s pitch videos for comparison. How do you think we shape up?
Martin Finucane can be reached at martin.finucane@globe.com.