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> ...especially within a country (same pay for California or Nebraska) because movement is so easy. I can't entirely agree with this. Yes, it's easier to move
by hamasho 4y ago
> ...especially within a country (same pay for California or Nebraska) because movement is so easy.
I can't entirely agree with this.
Yes, it's easier to move if your job is completely remote.
But for many people, the most significant barriers are not financial problems but mental ones.
Even though I'm single, I have few friends near my house and am satisfied with my current living environment.
It's a bit scary to move to somewhere I don't know.
And if I lived with a family, it would be much harder.
That's why the house prices are skyrocketing even though more people have started working entirely remotely.
The majority of remote workers are still living in a big town and don't plan to move to the countryside in the near future.
- ghaff 4y agoA lot of the more desirable countryside or smaller city prices have gone up as well. Not that I really disagree. Especially if you're settled in there are a lot of frictions to moving--more or less depending on circumstances. Absent a need to move for a job or whatever, you're talking at least a lot of time and at least some amount of money. So if you're "OK" where you are, the default is certainly to stay put.
- BlargMcLarg 4y ago>That's why the house prices are skyrocketing even though more people have started working entirely remotely. I don't disagree with the premise prior to this, but I do think a lot of people overestimate how many permanent remote workers there are, and by extension, how big their influence on the housing market is.
- aaomidi 4y agoHousing prices are skyrocketing in areas with no industry lol