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https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/02/17/1018090/fixing-what-the-innovation-economy-broke/
Interesting ideas. I'd like to see them put into action.
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The single best thing such counties and remote areas can do now looks like to invest in and built a fast and reliable internet infrastructure quickly. They might then pull more people and companies from the densely populated areas at noth coasts.
But distant home office-ing will not automatically lead to more companies in the rural areas, although the influx of hi-tech workers may boast the local service industry and increase tax returns for local and state administrations for a while.
The amount of wind turbines may increase in areas with the lowest costs, incentivised by lower taxes and duties, both subsidized by the federal government.
The latter will not be sustainable; and the former will primarily lead to better-offs moving to the countryside without the local population benefitting much from it. It'll rather looks like another form of gentrification.
All these things happen(ed) in Germany as well, and it didn't fend off the increasing impoverishment of such regions.
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Perhaps I am wrong:
Kristin Tate, "Rural America booms as young workers leave the cities behind" https://gnusocial.cc/url/530071
Interesting numbers on population movements, rental and property prices... Although the author of this opinion piece is a libertarian, text and links are worth considering.
OTOH: It may all be true that *newly* arriving people in the rural areas have good chances for jobs and settling down, but that doesn't need to say much about the people already living here, mostly blue collar, still forced to work 2-3 jobs in service and low tech manual labour or assembly line jobs. They may profit from an improved infrastructure paid for by influx of tax dollars, but their job outlooks seem to stay the same.
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@musicman @simsa03 I suspect that shorter flights will only matter to frequent travellers. If you fly overseas only once per year, then other factors (either in favor or not in favor of relocating to a coastal city) may carry more weight.
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