Jeff Bezos is leaving Seattle, where the billionaire founded Amazon out of a garage nearly three decades ago. In a Thursday night Instagram post, the 59-year-old Bezos announced plans to return to Miami — where he spent his high school years — to be closer to his parents and his partner, Lauren Sánchez. Bezos stepped down as the CEO of Amazon, still based in Seattle, almost three years ago and said in his social media post that operations for his rocket company, Blue Origin, are “increasingly shifting” to Cape Canaveral. Miami is about 200 miles south of Cape Canaveral. “As exciting as the move is, it’s an emotional decision for me,” Bezos wrote Thursday, noting that he's lived in Seattle longer than he's lived anywhere else. Read more: https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/seattle/jeff-bezos-amazon-seattle-packs-bags-miami/281-1e79a840-ed48-4bf8-80ef-b3ec60e1de68