While this sounds attractive, the major benefit (salary/cost-of-living arbitrage) completely goes away. Local employers can't afford to pay you your big-city s

While this sounds attractive, the major benefit (salary/cost-of-living arbitrage) completely goes away. Local employers can't afford to pay you your big-city salary, and the benefit for a big-city employer to keep you remote is retention and a known quantity (assuming you're worth your salt). It's a win-win for the worker and their employer. The article focuses on the supposed loser: the township that loses out on a local job - but the newly relocated remote worker adds to the tax base and pays for groceries, etc.