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A little surprised to see my hometown, Bloomington, IL on the list. There's two universities in town, so I know they bring in a lot of young people, but unless

A little surprised to see my hometown, Bloomington, IL on the list. There's two universities in town, so I know they bring in a lot of young people, but unless you want to open a restaurant or work at State Farm your whole life, there doesn't seem to be a whole ton of opportunities there, especially now that the Mitsubishi plant closed down. It is still a very affordable place to live, that part is certainly true.

mikepurvis 9y ago
Isn't the point that the "here we come" millenials are bringing their own startups with them, or working remotely? So you can live in a boring, inexpensive college town somewhere, but still have exciting, well-paid work.
- cableshaft 9y ago
  Well sure. I do have a friend who's trying to get a 3D print studio startup going that lives in the area, even. But there's not a huge market there for new businesses outside of restaurants (seriously, it's a test market for new restaurants and it has one of the highest amount of restaurants per capita in the US), as far as I can tell at least. If you work completely remotely that's fine, but at least the article was saying more that millennial were moving to these places because the existing demand for workers was there, especially knowledge workers, and that's just not really true here unless you want to work at the headquarters for a giant insurance company. The scope of the article is generally true, I was just surprised to see my hometown included, is all. If you're just looking for cheap places to live and work completely remotely, there are tons of other towns nearby that are much cheaper. Hell, just go 20 miles outside of Bloomington and you can get a house at about half the price that you would in Bloomington, in much smaller towns. I have old high school buddies that do exactly that.
  - KGIII 9y ago
    Do you have any more info on the restaurants per capita? Google isn't very helpful. I ask only out of mild interest. The village closest to me has ~30 and just 1200 residents. However, it's a tourist town and there are zero franchise fast food places, or the likes. Wait, mostly disregard this. I was looking for the wrong town and now have a bunch of information.
    - cableshaft 9y ago
      I don't have hard data, it's just something that's known about the city. With a google search I can find some people mentioning it online, but not with any hard data.

mikepurvis 9y ago

Isn't the point that the "here we come" millenials are bringing their own startups with them, or working remotely? So you can live in a boring, inexpensive college town somewhere, but still have exciting, well-paid work.

cableshaft 9y ago
Well sure. I do have a friend who's trying to get a 3D print studio startup going that lives in the area, even. But there's not a huge market there for new businesses outside of restaurants (seriously, it's a test market for new restaurants and it has one of the highest amount of restaurants per capita in the US), as far as I can tell at least. If you work completely remotely that's fine, but at least the article was saying more that millennial were moving to these places because the existing demand for workers was there, especially knowledge workers, and that's just not really true here unless you want to work at the headquarters for a giant insurance company. The scope of the article is generally true, I was just surprised to see my hometown included, is all. If you're just looking for cheap places to live and work completely remotely, there are tons of other towns nearby that are much cheaper. Hell, just go 20 miles outside of Bloomington and you can get a house at about half the price that you would in Bloomington, in much smaller towns. I have old high school buddies that do exactly that.
- KGIII 9y ago
  Do you have any more info on the restaurants per capita? Google isn't very helpful. I ask only out of mild interest. The village closest to me has ~30 and just 1200 residents. However, it's a tourist town and there are zero franchise fast food places, or the likes. Wait, mostly disregard this. I was looking for the wrong town and now have a bunch of information.
  - cableshaft 9y ago
    I don't have hard data, it's just something that's known about the city. With a google search I can find some people mentioning it online, but not with any hard data.