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Are there jobs in that town? That seems to make or break a small town.

• stevenjgarner 7y ago
  Yes there are jobs. I have clients in small towns all over the midwest and there are plenty of jobs in all those towns. It is so very hard to find employees willing to work! I think my point though is that given the nature of this HN space, most of the "readers" have the skills to work remotely from anywhere. Make yourself a valuable and treasured resource and employers will want you to work, even if it is over a connection. I think the key metric is not whether jobs are available in a small town, but rather the nature of available Internet access - thanks to the decades old USDA Broadband initiative, many small towns across America have better Internet than larger cities, especially cities monopolized by multiple-system operators (MSO's). Many small towns do not. That is where one needs to be selective.
  • stevenjgarner 7y ago
    One resource to select rural towns where broadband is available is the USDA Telecommunications Program Funded Service Areas map: https://www.rd.usda.gov/programs-services/all-programs/telecommunications-programs/telecom-maps https://www.rd.usda.gov/programs-services/all-programs/telec...
  • nikanj 7y ago
    You can’t build a healthy community on ”clever people work remotely”
• ahje 7y ago
  I've found it quite easy to freelance on the countryside. There are businesses out here, and since most IT people live in cities there's a lack of them out here. Easy jobs, that pay less than a top job somewhere else, but living is so much cheaper that it doesn't matter.
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