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Why should economic growth be constrained to a handful of coastal urban centers when NAFTA and other effects of globalization have hit the Midwest and rural are
by TheAdamAndChe 8y ago
Why should economic growth be constrained to a handful of coastal urban centers when NAFTA and other effects of globalization have hit the Midwest and rural areas of the country the most?
- scarface74 8y agoSomeone can complain about what should happen and stay unemployed or you can deal with the reality that tech jobs are in large urban areas. I’ve never lived on the coast, but I do live in a large metropolitan city. I can either complain about the direction that front end development is going and Node or I can look at the current technology landscape and where the market is going and learn what’s hot and keep my family fed.
- TheAdamAndChe 8y agoCouldn't this argument be flipped to say that perhaps underemployment is caused by the lack of willingness of employers to go where the employees are? Judging from the increasing housing expenses, employer and industry concentration has serious effects on local inflation, thus seriously driving up the risks associated with migration.
- scarface74 8y agoThere is an old saying - “The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.” But there is s move toward “rural sourcing” where outsourcing companies would use foreign outsourced labor are now setting up shop in rural areas where they can both pay people less than in the major cities and still get the benefits of being in similar time zones and people can travel more easily to be on site occasionally.