> With modern technology there is little excuse. Fewer and fewer enterprises require physical concentration to operate. True, but they're still a small minorit

> With modern technology there is little excuse. Fewer and fewer enterprises require physical concentration to operate. True, but they're still a small minority of jobs; and those people will need/want services provided by workers of professions that do require physical presence, who will have an incentive to move away to big cities. So the only way to sustain that is to have a group of extremely highly paid remote workers, who can pay a premium to keep those other service workers in the area. Meanwhile, everyone who doesn't have a customer service job nor a remote one will move away, so you're left with a bifurcated pool of workers. Doesn't really sound like a great community to me. The alternative is for remote workers to live mostly isolated from non-remote workers, but I can't see that spreading beyond a few exceptions. EDIT: Now that I think of it, we already have those bifurcated communities, in the form of areas to where people with money move after retiring (which also frees them from the physical part of the job). I guess they're reasonably popular.