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I think it's great remote work is starting to catch on. I think it could help revitalize a lot of the rural areas just outside of major metro footprints. I am

I think it's great remote work is starting to catch on. I think it could help revitalize a lot of the rural areas just outside of major metro footprints. I am also born and raised New England, NH and ME could also benefit from this type of program (although Portland seems to be more up and coming). There's a lot of really good reasons to escape the Boston bubble, but unfortunately companies are holding tight to brick and mortar operations in the 'hip' downtown neighborhoods.

SaltyBackendGuy 8y ago
As a side effect, perhaps even lower cost of living in metro areas due to people being able to work/live in more rural areas.
lotsofpulp 8y ago
In my experience, proportionally, more smart young people who have the skills for tech work prefer living in cities with other like minded people. So if you want to hire them, you have to be there otherwise someone else will employ them.
- bluntfang 8y ago
  Maybe confirmation bias?
  - lotsofpulp 8y ago
    I’m using the sky high rents and unrelenting demand in popular cities around the world as a data point. Also, being physically close to other intelligent people offers network effects that, while I don’t have a study to prove it with, just kind of makes sense to me. It’s not what you know, it’s who you know.
- eertami 8y ago
  Then have the office in the city and allow remote work as an option, best of both? I've done both, a lot for those smart young people you mention, often lack hobbies, and those ones are extremely boring. I'd rather remote in from a mountain town where I can ski, mountain bike and hike than suffer year round with decreased QoL of a city.
  - pavel_lishin 8y ago
    One man's decrease in QoL is another man's increase, when it comes to the rural/urban distinction.
- dsfyu404ed 8y ago
  Or they choose different careers because they don't want to live in the city with a bunch of people who think nothing like them. A good chunk of the EEs where I went to school were doing it instead of CS because there were fewer CS options that didn't involve moving to a culturally incompatible city. edit: The clock strikes lunchtime in SV and suddenly everything I posted today gets down-voted. It kind of illustrates my point about culture compatibility.

SaltyBackendGuy 8y ago

As a side effect, perhaps even lower cost of living in metro areas due to people being able to work/live in more rural areas.

lotsofpulp 8y ago

In my experience, proportionally, more smart young people who have the skills for tech work prefer living in cities with other like minded people. So if you want to hire them, you have to be there otherwise someone else will employ them.

bluntfang 8y ago
Maybe confirmation bias?
- lotsofpulp 8y ago
  I’m using the sky high rents and unrelenting demand in popular cities around the world as a data point. Also, being physically close to other intelligent people offers network effects that, while I don’t have a study to prove it with, just kind of makes sense to me. It’s not what you know, it’s who you know.
eertami 8y ago
Then have the office in the city and allow remote work as an option, best of both? I've done both, a lot for those smart young people you mention, often lack hobbies, and those ones are extremely boring. I'd rather remote in from a mountain town where I can ski, mountain bike and hike than suffer year round with decreased QoL of a city.
- pavel_lishin 8y ago
  One man's decrease in QoL is another man's increase, when it comes to the rural/urban distinction.
dsfyu404ed 8y ago
Or they choose different careers because they don't want to live in the city with a bunch of people who think nothing like them. A good chunk of the EEs where I went to school were doing it instead of CS because there were fewer CS options that didn't involve moving to a culturally incompatible city. edit: The clock strikes lunchtime in SV and suddenly everything I posted today gets down-voted. It kind of illustrates my point about culture compatibility.