Are you looking for a fresh start, thinking of pulling up stakes? Now that WFH, and the flexibility that comes with it, have become more prevalent, some cities in the US are offering relocation incentives to attract new residents. The programs include enticements such as monthly stipends, student loan payments, and co-working space. What would it take to get you to move to Tulsa, Oklahoma? Or Ozarks, Arkansas, where they are willing to throw in a bicycle and membership to local attractions?
Savannah, Georgia, Topeka, Kansas, and Hamilton, Ohio are also recruiting future citizens. There are some requirements like purchasing a home or meeting a time commitment before payments kick in. So, do any of these spots look like a good place to put down roots?
Interesting, Hannibal. Are any left or right coast blue states in the running?
It doesn’t seem that way. Although Georgia is starting to lean blue slightly. Savannah is a nice town, probably the only one on the list I’d be interested in. But the smell from the paper mills would take some getting used to.
Savannah is OK, but there are a lot of irritants. It can get very hot and man, there are a lot of bugs, and the environment is not particularly healthy. It’s a great town to visit, but I don’t think I want to live there.
That’s what I was going to say – too friggin’ hot in Savannah.
I can handle the heat but the bugs there are fearsome.
They couldn’t pay me enough to move back to rightwingland.
Fine print: Black people, need not apply…
@Loveshaq No question about it. No BIPOC. I’m sure they’d accept the token Asian, maybe even a Cuban!
Living in Turtle country I completely understand.
Oh, man, you could NOT pay me enough to live in Topeka, KS. – Native Kansan
@MemeWeavet I had family in Kansas, totally agree.
If I moved, it would be out of the country. I’d go to Scotland in a heartbeat.
My mother had a building lot in a development in Savannah. It took her 10 years to sell it.
@LemmyKilmister Yeah, there’s a reason they have to pay people to move there. I’ve never been to Scotland. It’s on my list of places I want to visit.
Southern Spain for me. I’d live in one of those cave houses.
I have a good friend that’s a pilot. She loves Spain.
I remember this, lol.
Scotland is my fave place on earth – used to go every year if I could. In between looking for farms in Va – I’ve also been looking at houses in Scotland – for my family it would be a move back to the mother country. The only downside for me is the long pet quarantine for our dogs – but I would love to move there and raise black nose sheep – which are a Swiss breed but would look so cute on the Scottish hillsides.
I vote for Scotland and the adorable sheep. Can I come visit?
Absolutely!
I’ve posted before about my week in Tulsa, the eerily abandoned city. You could, quite literally, lay down in almost any street in the middle of town during a work day and take a nap without being disturbed. I’m honestly surprised they don’t use it as a setting for more apocalyptic movies. You wouldn’t even need to block streets off.
I can completely understand them offering incentives to get people there. I am more dubious about why anyone would take them up on it.
@bryanlsplinter I do remember you posting about it. And it honestly appeals to the hermit in me, lol. But, tornados, dust storms, and right wing types? No thanks.
Tulsa is a fucking hole.
eh..id actually be pretty tempted…the ozarks looks like i could have some fun there
but tbh…that whole guns for everyone thing is really quite off putting to me
Ozarks = Midwestern US Friesland.
yeah but with hills and weather
anyways…i can tolerate the frysians…. cant understand em….but thats probably why i tolerate them
suspect the midwest would be much the same :p
@farsycythe It’s pretty but I know a couple of people who plan on retiring there and they’re not people I want for neighbors.
@farscythe you need to change your name to something I can spell, lol
but…im like the only person on here thats non capital fancy writing shit
are you lizdexic?
(sorry…missus is dislexic and called liz…)
i’d go for bob….but its always taken
anyways….funny thing ive found out over the years
but i can ignore a great amount of stupid
or hatefull shit
really..i just thats nice dear that shit
that said i do find myself longing for the sticks…..nearest neighbour 10 miles away?….souynds good
I am totally a town girl. I like the country for vacation but not to live in. I tried it once and hated it.
lol each to their own
i love the conveniance of town
but i also love the sollitude of the country
i’d need to get a car again tho
(or start planning weekly shopping trips by bike….)
but yeah….grew up in the sticks….im about ready to go back to me roots and hermit
Listen as someone who lives a few hours from where the Ozarks region starts… fucking don’t do it man.
If you manage to get in an area that isn’t redneck hooterville deep intergenerational poverty, you’ll be neck-deep in racist fuckers. But the kind with money.
welp….i’d probably end up in hooterville then…as im fiscally challenged
but tbh….i’d never make it there anyhoo
(seriously….you try getting a fucking a visa with a less than spotless record, a blue collar skill set and no money)
I have a couple friends that live in Moorea, no more beautiful place in the world and the nicest people you will ever meet. I would move there in a heartbeat!
@Loveshaq I’d go there!
Now, if NM were offering up some big bucks, then I’d need to have a serious conversation with Mrs. Butcher about taking them up on it. She’d probably still decline because the girls live in this area now…but my aging mother lives in NM and at some point in the (hopefully distant) future I’m going to have to burn a bunch of ETO to deal with her eventual demise and the estate issues.
ethylene oxyde?
hows that gonna get you to NM?
(sorry..couldnt help myself)
Natchez, Mississippi is doing this too.
It’s actually a lovely town with lots of historical houses.
Fun facts time! Natchez was a town with a fuckton of wealthy Northerners who moved down to the South. Bankers and industry folks who could make even more money off the slave economy in the South. I’m sure most moved in and then got their own slaves right away.
Anyhoo, when the Union army was marching through the South and burning shit down, they surrounded Natchez and there was a blockade. City leaders were like “heyyyyy general…. you know you and your officers got it real tough camping out there. Wouldn’t you just love to enjoy staying in our fancy houses instead? Lovely housing, nice food, better than camping, and hey don’t burn or loot our houses, mmmkay?”
And that is how small little Natchez has a fuckton of antebellum houses still.
Mississippi, another strong NO from me!
Lived in Jackson for a year. Can attest that MS is not someplace anyone would want to live.
I went to Tupelo for my grandfather’s funeral some years ago. In july. MS is approximately 7 feet from the sun and it is state law to serve all meals with gravy. No thanks.
LOL!