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> Ultimately this includes moving away from places that are too rigid Would the "Great Migration" of African Americans out of the south count as an example?
by bediger4000 2y ago
> Ultimately this includes moving away from places that are too rigid
Would the "Great Migration" of African Americans out of the south count as an example?
- api 2y agoYes it probably would, as would the contemporary emptying of skilled labor from small towns and more conservative cities. Chasing jobs is one reason people do this, but fleeing boring repressive and rigid culture is another. The jobs thing is a feedback loop: the more intelligent ambitious young people come to a place, the more it grows. The allure of its openness and liberalism is one of the forces that made California the world’s fourth largest economy.
- bediger4000 2y agoAs example of such places trying to staunch the flow, there's the "Tulsa Remote" program (https://www.tulsaremote.com/ https://www.tulsaremote.com/) where City of Tulsa offers a $10,000 bonus to people who move there to do a remote job. The page says more than 3,500 remote workers have moved to Tulsa, the program apparently started in November of 2018. That's 6.5 years, so 538 remote workers moved to Tulsa every year. Retention rate would be interesting. I'm not sue if "Tulsa Remote" is still happening, the "featured blog posts" are all literally lorem ipsum text.