Even if remote technology was great, demographics and healthcare are going to make it difficult to convince people in tech jobs to move to rural areas. Young, c

Even if remote technology was great, demographics and healthcare are going to make it difficult to convince people in tech jobs to move to rural areas. Young, college-educated tech workers tend not to want to hang out with people who are religious and/or not well-educated, and small-town America abounds with people who can't speak three sentences without mentioning god or jesus, who don't much care for skin-tone diversity, and who cannot converse about ideas. Yes, OF COURSE this is a generalization and there are notable exceptions -- like small (secular) college towns -- but it's such a predominant phenomenon in America that the exceptions are notably rare. The other big problem with small towns is healthcare, and this is where older tech workers are going to have a problem. Healthcare in the US is well-known to be a dumpster fire and one reason is that it has become essentially unavailable in rural America. If you're older and need access to good doctors and hospitals, you need to live close to a major city, and even then it very much matters which city and which state you live in as to the quality of healthcare you'll get. Small American towns have a lot of desirable qualities; they're often very pretty and the cost of living is quite low compared to cities. But they have a lot of catching up to do w.r.t. education and healthcare before they'll be competitive with cities for tech workers.