Posted on 03/16/2018 7:00:31 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
As technology continues to allow people to work wherever they want, we will see more and more city people who hate the city move to rural areas and work out of their homes.
I’m an example of that. The technology is getting closer and closer to the “open the floodgates” moment.
Yeah, everybody is moving to upstate New York, Massachusetts, Kalifornia, and Illinois looking for work.
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Lies.
I guess the authors have never seen thr red-blue county map. Different lens, different analysis.
Bull, redstates on average have lower unemployment, Lower cost of living, and lower taxes.
RE: Yeah, everybody is moving to upstate New York, Massachusetts, Kalifornia, and Illinois looking for work.
I can’t speak for the other states, but here in NY, where I live, YES, I do see out of state applicants in the financial industry and technology ( silicon alley ).
To balance everything out, I also DO see a lot of retirees moving OUT of New York State ( only to be replaced by immigrants ).
New York is a full 1% higher unemployment than Alabama.
Get out now.
RE: Get out now.
In a few years when I retire.
I’ve been trying to get my Mom and Brothers out of Orange County for years. My Brothers work for UPS and Cintas respectively. It is crazy for them to stay and there and get reamed with taxes.
They must be measuring for the raw numbers of new hires. The “Blue” areas are seeing the biggest increases, because the job markets in those regions are more fragile. They’ve been depressed for years, and now are in a position to get “caught up”. Meanwhile, the Red regions are more economically stable, so companies there didn’t take as bad a hit and don’t need to hire as steeply.
Now that I think of it, the OP “analysis” sounds very Keynesian, since they don’t seem to account for not only differences in state economic policies that might keep Red areas more stable in downturns, but they also don’t account for different types of jobs in different regions. To the OP analysts, jobs are a generic unit.
I live in SC. We are doing just fine.
RE: New York is a full 1% higher unemployment than Alabama.
True. But that’s mostly in the depressed upstate New York area. There could have been significant employment gains had the state allowed fracking to proceed like they did in neighboring Pennsylvania but that idea was canned.
Here in Long Island where I live, unemployment rate tracks the national average.
The “1%” does well in Blue States. The rest of the people - not so much.
I recently took a road trip and am reminded that there are 1000s of small towns waiting to be energized by new citizens that will buy beautiful old homes and other real estate that have fallen into disrepair and can be had—comparatively speaking— for almost nothing. Lets’s just hope that when these new telecommuting citizens come (if they do) that they adopt the politics of small town America.
I was at Cedar Park Hobby Lobby yesterday. Customer in front of me was trying to hit the road to get home before heavy rush hour traffic, to Austin. I said we only have 6000 ppl in our town, one traffic light, and rush hour is when you see one other car on FM 1431. Way out in boondocks overlooking Lake Travis... in Lago Vista. Sh mumbled something in a demonic voice under her breath about me bragging... ha ha. We love It. out here her in Balcones Wildlife Preserve! Not crazy about the coyotes but had them in Claremont, LA county, too. We retired and moved out here!
Ppl on Fox News are always lamenting N Y home prices. Get outside of the city, I found an acreage in NY State,big two story house, $153k.
What we really need is the manufacturing back. That will re energize the red states.
Letss just hope that when these new telecommuting citizens come (if they do) that they adopt the politics of small town America.
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