Nice! I'm in Tulsa Remote and am quoted a few times in this - I'm the one who "applied after seeing a post about the program on Hacker News" so things are reall

Nice! I'm in Tulsa Remote and am quoted a few times in this - I'm the one who "applied after seeing a post about the program on Hacker News" so things are really coming full circle right now. I think an underrated grievance of people living in big cities is that feeling that you are a completely insignificant part of a community and culture that are so much bigger than you. It's something smaller cities can offer that big cities can't, and it's also something that Tulsa Remote has done really well by connecting participants with people in the city that have influence. The people who are happiest and most likely to stay are definitely the ones taking advantage of this - like Obum from the first paragraph (an amazing human, by the way). Things like lower cost of living, traffic, and cheap housing get talked about a lot as reasons to move out of NY/SF/LA/etc, but are kind of just byproducts of the fact that more people want to live in these places because they have a lot more to offer in other ways. But this idea that you can move to a smaller city with momentum and become a meaningful part of that community is super compelling for someone with that mindset. I think (and hope) the rise of remote work will keep pushing motivated people to move to smaller cities, like Tulsa, and wind up giving everyone a lot more options for interesting places to live.